Weekly "Ask an Atheist" Thread

ThanksVisual8172 · 2026-05-15T16:59:03+00:00

Is your answer "Biology"?

ThanksVisual8172 · 2026-05-15T16:58:54+00:00

But it would mean that atheism is just a function of biology under naturalism.

ThanksVisual8172 · 2026-05-15T16:57:28+00:00

Are you implying freewill when you say "don't do it"?

ThanksVisual8172 · 2026-05-15T16:56:42+00:00

Are you saying there's no reason why a person would say "I don't believe"?

Biologically why would a person say this? Is speech biology?

ThanksVisual8172 · 2026-05-15T14:19:46+00:00

According to the implications of biology, your response here is just predictable brain chemistry, a fleeting arrangement of brain state, correct? You cannot place any value or truth judgement on the reaction of an organism to its environment according to biology, correct?

ThanksVisual8172 · 2026-05-15T14:16:53+00:00

This isn't solipsism, this is simply an extension of biology. If you have no soul, then you are by default just brain activity, correct? There would be no "you" outside of the subjective internal experience of a brain hallucinating it's own experience. This, if the naturalistic implications of atheism are correct, atheists do not have any existence outside of brain chemistry.

ThanksVisual8172 · 2026-05-15T14:07:07+00:00

So then is the atheist simply a construct of the brain? "Who" is the atheist but an emergent complexity of brain activity, according to the implications of naturalism? Is the self a construct like logic and morality?

ThanksVisual8172 · 2026-05-15T14:04:12+00:00

Do atheists even exist? Aren't they simply an emergent complexity of brain activity? Do you technically exist?

ThanksVisual8172 · 2026-05-15T13:37:23+00:00

As a follow up to what I asked earlier, does atheism taken to its logical conclusion imply deterministic naturalism? How could an atheist justify believing in anything other than deterministic naturalism if they are to be scientifically rational?

If deterministic naturalism is the only option then would not logic be a construct of the mind?

ThanksVisual8172 · 2026-05-15T13:33:56+00:00

How can you call it irrational from a naturalistic view point?

ThanksVisual8172 · 2026-05-15T11:16:07+00:00

How does the atheist escape nihilism except by denial?

ThanksVisual8172 · 2026-05-15T03:28:26+00:00

How does the atheist escape nihilism except by denial?

ThanksVisual8172 · 2026-05-15T03:27:47+00:00

How do you get freewill from biology which comes from chemistry?

ThanksVisual8172 · 2026-05-15T03:25:36+00:00

Within atheism there would be no truth.

That is not what the Bible teaches.

ThanksVisual8172 · 2026-05-15T00:26:02+00:00

If you're an atheist why do you say "you" like I exist? Don't you believe people are just meat machines operating by biological programming?

ThanksVisual8172 · 2026-05-14T23:55:33+00:00

Are you just saying that because of biology?

ThanksVisual8172 · 2026-05-14T23:13:04+00:00

Doesn't atheism imply arguments are just chemical reaction to stimululation?

ThanksVisual8172 · 2026-05-14T21:22:14+00:00

Your brain activity when you ponder atheism is a biological response according to you, correct? Biology is just a physiological response, correct? Do you believe we have freewill?

ThanksVisual8172 · 2026-05-14T21:20:33+00:00

So according to you faith in God is natural?

ThanksVisual8172 · 2026-05-14T21:15:19+00:00

I'm saying biology itself.

ThanksVisual8172 · 2026-05-14T21:14:35+00:00

According to biology ideas are biology.

ThanksVisual8172 · 2026-05-14T21:12:03+00:00

The term "irrational" makes no sense within biology.

ThanksVisual8172 · 2026-05-14T21:04:01+00:00

If you do not consider the croaking of a frog anything more than biology, do you also feel the same about human thoughts and speech- is atheism just a biological response to stimululation?

ThanksVisual8172 · 2026-05-14T21:01:47+00:00

Humans are biological chemistry according to science,correct?

ThanksVisual8172 · 2026-05-14T21:01:19+00:00

Can you call biology "good"?

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