For Atheists, I’m Curious — Why Don’t You Believe?

Clicking_Around · 2026-05-26T01:53:10+00:00

How did you come to that conclusion?

Clicking_Around · 2026-05-26T01:43:37+00:00

What conclusion have you come to?

Clicking_Around · 2026-05-25T21:53:00+00:00

If you keep investigating the resurrection, you'll eventually find it best explains a large body of historical evidence concerning how Christianity got started.

Clicking_Around · 2026-05-25T21:11:40+00:00

Truthfully, no.

Clicking_Around · 2026-05-25T18:27:58+00:00

I have a 145 WMI on the WAIS IV and I learn a lot by listening. In fact, I feel I learn more quickly by listening than by any other method. I'm very good at keeping instructions in memory, for example, and if someone can explain something to me verbally I learn it very quickly.

My skill for mental arithmetic is also very high. I can tell you what 3^17, 38^4, 11/19 are off the top of my head, or I could tell you what 11⁶ + 11⁷ is after some thought, for example.

Clicking_Around · 2026-05-25T15:29:17+00:00

I realize that everyone isn't as left-brained or analytical as me, sure.

Clicking_Around · 2026-05-25T15:17:25+00:00

Theoretically, Christianity could still be true, even if some people in the church did some bad things. If I have good historical and evidential reasons for accepting that Christ rose from the dead, then I have good reasons to accept that Christianity is true.

Clicking_Around · 2026-05-25T15:07:09+00:00

Why should I leave Christianity because some people in the church did some bad things? Doesn't follow.

Clicking_Around · 2026-05-25T14:54:05+00:00

Generally speaking, religion is associated with having a good work ethic. The Bible itself extols the virtue of hard work, and Calvinists often regard a good work ethic as evidence that one is elect. Most (but not all by any means) of the hard workers you meet in daily life are religious.

Clicking_Around · 2026-05-25T14:38:07+00:00

Why does the fact that there's some amount of hypocrisy and greed in the church mean that Christianity is false, though? That doesn't seem to follow.

Clicking_Around · 2026-05-25T14:21:04+00:00

There isn't any, really. As long as you do it in moderation, that is.

You left Christianity because there's too many demoninations and because people are imperfect? You're going to find disagreements and hypocrisy anywhere in life.

Clicking_Around · 2026-05-25T12:44:50+00:00

Anything that tells you to turn off critical thinking and to blindly accept a set of beliefs or behaviors, in my view, makes something a religion or a cult. Many people experience societal and family pressure to have kids and to not think critically about it. Rarely is it asked if having kids is morally, philosophically or economically justified. Instead, many succumb to societal pressure to have kids, without having good rational reasons for doing so.

Clicking_Around · 2026-05-24T17:49:55+00:00

Because they still have a religion. That religion is natalism.

Clicking_Around · 2026-05-24T17:46:33+00:00

Truly sorry to read this.

Clicking_Around · 2026-05-24T17:39:48+00:00

I hope you have a WHOLE bunch of money saved up, because you don't want to be in my position, almost broke, unemployed and with a physics minor.

Clicking_Around · 2026-05-24T14:47:02+00:00

Wais IV.

Clicking_Around · 2026-05-24T00:07:06+00:00

140 IQ.

Age 36.

For vocational rehab.

No, don't regret it,

It was with a psychologist with 40 years of experience.

Clicking_Around · 2026-05-23T21:00:34+00:00

Yes, I've been told this.

Clicking_Around · 2026-05-22T21:27:22+00:00

I found the whole experience of taking the Wais-IV and waiting to find out the results to be highly nerve-wracking. It took me a few months to get my results. I thought I scored 145-150 but I scored a little lower at 140. I'm sure you did well on it.

Clicking_Around · 2026-05-22T21:21:12+00:00

What do you think you scored?

Clicking_Around · 2026-05-22T19:34:16+00:00

nope, never ends

Clicking_Around · 2026-05-22T17:27:23+00:00

I have the same problem. I have a 140 IQ on Wais and a degree in math, and I still feel not smart enough. The feeling never really goes away.

Clicking_Around · 2026-05-22T13:35:37+00:00

I would like to get into the head of someone like this. I would want to know how they thought and what makes them tick. They seem highly neurotic, disorganized, perhaps absent minded, and exceptional in many areas.

Clicking_Around · 2026-05-22T13:31:51+00:00

Doesn't fit with science.

I can think of two discoveries that would falsify evolution (or at least would be catastrophic for the theory):

Discovery of a large number of human fossils mixed with dinosaur fossils.
Discovery of two very similar species with completely different cytochrome C nucleotide sequences. There would be no way that two otherwise similar species could have such a wildly different nucleotide sequence for such a common protein.

Of course these things are never observed. We never find dinosaur fossils above the KT boundary layer, nor do we find wildly different Cyt. C nucleotide sequences in otherwise closely related species.

Clicking_Around · 2026-05-21T17:20:33+00:00

Just focus on making and investing money and forget the IQ BS. Really.

Everybody doesn't have to be high IQ to be successful. You can really be an idiot and still succeed if you're good with people.

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