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Question 1: If there is no God, how do you tell right from wrong?
An action is right or wrong depending on a plethora of things. Is the underlying assumption behind the action true or false? What is the context in which the action takes place? Does the action unnecessarily harm someone else or cause them to needlessly suffer? It is in the answers to these questions that you find “right” and “wrong “
Question 2: If you had a gun in your pocket, would you kill me? Or would you decide it’s wrong? Why do you show compassion if Evolution is true?
Generally, I’d say “no.” However, if you pulled a gun on me, or you posed a threat to my life or the life of someone else, then perhaps I would, as anyone else would regardless of their religious point of view.
And if you’d learned anything from human evolution, you’d know that we evolved to be social creatures. This is because our survival in the early days (and today) depended on our ability to work cooperatively and form mutually-beneficial social arrangements.
Question 3: If the Atheistic worldview were true, we are just a conglomerate of chemicals that formed by chance. If this is true, how can you trust your own thoughts?
First of all, which “atheistic worldview” are you talking about? Secular Humanism? Nihilism? Existentialism? Materialism? Communism? You are going to have to narrow your definition a bit.
Second, evolution shows that humans are not “a conglomerate of chemicals that formed by chance.” Some evolutionary mechanisms are based on chance, but most are deterministic.
Third, if we could trust our own thoughts, then independent verification and evidence would be unnecessary.
Question 4: Take a watch. It was created by somebody in a foreign land. You have never seen the creator of the watch. But you believe without question that it was designed, created and has a creator. So then what makes you think the entire universe got here by chance, without a creator?
Watches don’t occur naturally. If they did, you’d have a valid point and a check mate. But we differentiate watches and other manufactured items from naturally-occurring phenomena because we have naturally-occurring phenomena to serve as a basis of comparison. You are basically asserting that nature doesn’t occur naturally. On what are you basing this assertion? Do you have knowledge of a naturally occurring universe that we can compare this “manufactured” one to? Furthermore, we know how watches are manufactured because we can see how they are produced. We can go to a factory and see how the watch goes from metal parts to finished product. We can learn the process ourselves and build watches. In other words, the process is discernible and repeatable. If you are asserting that we live in a universe that is manufactured, are you also asserting that we could possibly learn to create our own universes?
