Secular Café: Twenty supposed atheist-stumpers

Secular Café Discuss atheism, religious apologetics, separation of church & state, theology, comparative religion and scripture.

Twenty supposed atheist-stumpers Jun 7th 2012, 02:48 20 Questions | Richard Carrier Blogs takes on God's Advocate • 20 questions atheists struggle to answer from Christian Medical Comment: Twenty questions atheists struggle to answer Here they are: 1. What caused the universe to exist? 2. What explains the fine tuning of the universe? 3. Why is the universe rational? 4. How did DNA and amino acids arise? 5. Where did the genetic code come from? 6. How do irreducibly complex enzyme chains evolve? 7. How do we account for the origin of 116 distinct language families? 8. Why did cities suddenly appear all over the world between 3,000 and 1,000 BC? 9. How is independent thought possible in a world ruled by chance and necessity? 10. How do we account for self-awareness? 11. How is free will possible in a material universe? 12. How do we account for conscience? 13. On what basis can we make moral judgements? 14. Why does suffering matter? 15. Why do human beings matter? 16. Why care about justice? 17. How do we account for the almost universal belief in the supernatural? 18. How do we know the supernatural does not exist? 19. How can we know if there is conscious existence after death? 20. What accounts for the empty tomb, resurrection appearances and growth of the church? Does anyone want to take a swipe at them? Some of them are almost too easy.

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