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imilar design flaws in the universe that we have discovered one of those design flaws is a black hole a black hole is a rip in the fabric of space time it is formed after the death of a star it is an extremely destructive process and would be completely unnecessary in a universe designed by any intelligent creator austin dacey argued 1 if god exists then the world would be perfectly designed 2 the world isn t perfectly designed 3 therefore god doesn t exist throughout my analysis of various theistic arguments for god s existence i have found there to be flaws in all of the arguments examined i can conclude from the arguments that i have examined and from the arguments that i made that it is more likely that god does not exist it is more likely that the universe and the intelligent life on earth are due to laws of nature and science rather than a supernatural creator sources 1 michael martin atheism a philisophical justification philidelphia temple university 1990 2 saint augustine the confessions of saint augustine new york doubleday 1960 3 john perry michael bratman john fischer introduction to philosophy new york oxford university press 2013 4 karen armstrong a history of god baltine books 1994 5 the holy bible english standard version illinois crossway 2001 6 stephen hawking the grand design new york bantam books 2010 7 william craig reasonable faith illinois crossway books 3rd edition 2008 8 charles darwin on the origin of species empire books 2011 posted in astronomy atheism catholicism christianity cosmology darwin evolution philosophy prayer psychology religion science skepticism theism uncategorized tagged astronomy atheist philosophy catholicism christianity college controversy cosmology darwin evolution free thought origin of life philosophy physics religion science skeptic skepticism 1 comment april 13 2013 by gary white prayer i m pretty sure that you all have heard of this phenomenon called prayer what is it does it have any effect on the physical world does it do anything the short answer is no prayer is useless it does nothing more than make you feel good sometimes it doesn t even do that there was a study done on prayer called the study of the therapeutic effects of intercessory prayer or step as you can read on the link the study took almost 2 000 patients about to go into heart surgery the people were randomly assigned to 1 of 3 groups 1 group receiving prayer but unsure 604 people 2 not receiving prayer but unsure 597 people 3 sure that they are receiving prayer 601 group 1 was told that they will get prayed for they were actually getting prayer group 2 was told the same thing but did not get any prayer group 3 was told that they were getting prayed for they actually did get prayed for this prayer was conducted for 14 days this study had surprising results in groups 1 and 2 complications occurred about 50 of the time group 1 315 604 51 655 group 2 304 597 50 92 the the surprising part comes in the fact that the group certain of receiving prayer had complications about 60 of the time 352 601 58 56 now some christians believe that this means that prayer does do something the people conducting the study said otherwise the conclusion http www ncbi nlm nih gov pubmed 16569567 was intercessory prayer itself had no effect on complication free recovery from cabg but certainty of receiving intercessory prayer was associated with a higher incidence of complications so really it was that the people knew that they were being prayed for the results are basically saying that the people who knew that they were being prayed for had worse results for the simple fact that they knew in other words if they were to be told that they were receiving prayer but didn t actually get any prayer the results would be about the same this proves that prayer is nothing more than mental masturbation now i have had someone get confused over that saying confusing it with physical masturbation when using the term mental masturbation it means that prayer feels good to the person doing it but does nothing for who they are thinking of sorry if i am repeating myself but it seems important to do prayer does nothing for human beings it has no place in the minds of rational human beings or human beings in general prayer is useless it is a waste of time and ancient ritual that has no effect whatsoever it makes you feel good for a minute and then it goes away dust in the wind it is an ancient ritual how then did this ritual start to get a better look at rituals and religions at their start there was a case study that i think you will find interesting part 1 part 2 what this shows is that these rituals are formed from a type of mental programming called classical conditioning some people think that religious rituals are also a cause of operant conditioning essentially what this is all saying is that religious practices start when someone sees something always a natural phenomenon that they cannot explain luna solar eclipse volcano eruptions mass disease like the black plague earthquake thunder lightning etc these are all things we can explain today but were scary to ancient people because they did not understand it so they create a god that does these things because it makes sense to an ancient person now what about these rituals well once this god has been established they try to talk to this god to see if he will hear them prayer let s use an example in ancient greece a farmer would pray to zeus for good weather for farming so they can grow crops this works a little under 50 of the time chance so they develop other rituals like animal sacrifice this gets quite complicated let s assume that you take three animals and you sacrifice each one in the same way chicken cow lamb however you only get good weather when you sacrifice the chicken you would cease to sacrifice the other two animals because you have concluded that god wants you to sacrifice chickens now you are only sacrificing chickens and back to your chance outcome once you realize this you start to scratch your head and wonder what is going wrong so you try three different methods of sacrifice decapitation bludgeoning burning you then realize that you get good weather when you burn your chicken for zeus this goes on and on until you have some incredibly complicated procedure for sacrificing animals to get good weather some people may say that this does not pertain to the judeo christian religion obviously these people do not read their own holy book genesis 22 1 13 leviticus 1 leviticus 14 2 32 and trust me the list goes on for quite some time so why do people still do this in light of evidence that blatantly says that prayer is useless people still do it the thing is these people are not stupid they are smart educated sometimes ph d professors and scientists people why do they subscribe to such useless ancient rituals that have been proven to have no effect on people actually negative effects on people the answer ironically could be natural selection and evolution of these rituals in today s society people don t sacrifice animals to the god of their choosing so obviously these rituals have changed slightly when society does evolution is a good word to describe this change people are brought up to believe that prayer has some effect and this carries on into their adult life sometimes i wonder if people know that prayer doesn t do anything but do it anyway because that s what their parents did that is the reason that this silly ritual is still sticking around the same thing with going to church why do this why waste a sunday sitting in some uncomfortable wooden seat listening to a priest yammer on about god and how you should live your life the easy answer is that you probably shouldn t be doing these things but i don t know what is best for everyone if it makes you happy i can t tell you that it is wrong unless you are sacrificing animals or people that is definitely not good for the simple fact that people have stopped sacrificing animals i think is some recognition that it really didn t do anything so if it makes you happy to waste your sundays and your time going to church and praying then fine good for you i can t tell you not to do those things but i can tell you those things have been proven to be useless if you want to keep doing your rituals fully knowing or denying that it doesn t doing anything then that s fine too posted in atheism catholicism christianity philosophy prayer psychology religion science skepticism theism uncategorized tagged animal sacrifice atheism belief catholic catholicism christian classical conditioning disbelief genesis god leviticus logic mind morality myth operant conditioning philosophy prayer psychology religion richard dawkins sacrifice science skeptic skepticism theism useless 2 comments april 11 2013 by gary white west borough baptist church i t sure that you all have heard of the wbc if not here is a video this is only one of the parts of the documentary but i warn it is difficult to stomach i want to know what everyone thinks of these people i can guess what most people will says they are insane they are dangerous they shouldn t be allowed to do that etc i want to get you thinking about something else are the living up to old testament code their most prominent message is that god hates the usa because we have homosexuals in our society according to leviticus 20 13 if a man also lie with mankind as he lieth with a woman both of them have committed an abomination they shall surely be put to death their blood shall be upon them disclaimer in no way am i endorsing what these people are doing in no way am i saying that what they are doing is right it surely is not that being said they are trying to live up to the bible to a t they do not realize that the bible specifically the old testament is 2 000 years old it is a collections of poems and stories to describe the way people lived in ancient society society has evolved and the people who live in this society have evolved these people are turning to things that ancient society did not do well we would not use ancient medicine to cure the flu cancer aids hiv or any other disease they are turning to ancient remedies that just do not work i believe that most people religious or not would agree that these people are preaching something that is not compatible with our society posted in atheism christianity philosophy religion skepticism theism uncategorized tagged bible fanaticism fred phelps old testament religion right wing west borough baptist church 5 comments april 2 2013 by gary white out of the randomness one argument that i tackled in an earlier post was the fine tuning argument i thought about it for a while and i thought of one of my interests astronomy i realized that there are thousands of galaxies and millions of stars and planets out there so are we really fine tuned why us and not any one of the other millions of planets why haven t we found life on other planets for those of you who do not know much about cosmology or astronomy there is a certain goldilocks zone that a planet must be in to sustain liquid water it is called the goldilocks zone because the planet must have an eccentricity orbit of about 2 kepler came up with a scale for measuring a planet s orbit his first law the orbit of every planet is an ellipse with the sun at one of the two foci from a perfect circle to more of an oval from 0 to 1 a 0 is a perfect circle while you get closer to 1 it becomes more of an oval so is it by chance that the earth has an eccentricity of 2 yes this may be a disturbing and difficult concept for us to grasp but it is true let me demonstrate with an example think of your birthday let s say that it is today s date april 1st imagine you are in a room with one other person what is the chance that they will have the same birthday as you probably very low as you add more people to the room the chance that someone will have the same birthday as you increases when there are 34 people in a room with you there is a 4 to 1 chance that someone else will have the same birthday as you don t believe me try it for yourself with only 34 people in a room 35 including you pass around a piece of paper and tell everyone to write down their birthday you will get at least one other person in the room with the same birthday as you so what does this prove this shows us that if there are millions of planets orbiting suns all over the universe it is extremely likely that a few of them will be able to sustain intelligent life on them so now i must ask where is the fine tuning this seems more like laws acting around us rather than some supernatural being fine tuning this planet to have intelligent life with the small amount of space that we have explored we can conclude that there are more than 4 trillion planets orbiting other suns with a number like that there must be hundreds of planets that have intelligent life on them probably extremely far away from us father than our telescopes of space ships can take us however statistically it is highly probable that we are not alone in this gigantic universe and so the fine tuning argument is dead posted in astronomy atheism catholicism christianity cosmology darwin evolution philosophy religion science skepticism theism uncategorized tagged argument atheism catholic catholicism christian christianity cosmology dawkins disbelief evidence fact god history philosophy religion science skeptic skepticism theism 8 comments march 31 2013 by gary white prayer as an answer for hundreds of years it has been thought that this world is a result of god god made everything we see hear touch etc but is this really the case in science once a theory has been proposed it is tested in a way to try to disprove it if it cannot be disproved then it works does god work in an earlier post i took some religious claims and how science has refuted them in a way i am simply continuing that post however i want to look at something different human nature why do we do the things we do why do we pray why do we have these rituals the answer is easy yet complex the easy answer is conditioning conditioning is an extremely powerful tool that has been used ever since human beings have existed there are many psychological studies done on conditioning i will use an example to explain further imagine a baby sitting in a square babies are predisposed by nature like all human beings to examine their surroundings if every time they move to a corner of the square they are given food they will move toward a corner rather than a side of the square when they are hungry so the baby concludes that the will not get food at the sides of the square however as a parent you can choose to give the baby food when it moves to a side rather than a corner so the babies conclusion is false the easy way to explain this is a hot stove i m sure that you know where i m going with this you feel pain when you touch it and learn not to t...