Posted: Jun 09, 2012 12:14 pm
byofrcs wrote:I'm going to extract the 20 questions and then answer them from my POV (secular humanist+methodical naturalist). As a guess everyone here should be able to do this to a reasonable competence. I'll post them later.
Twenty questions atheists struggle to answer is a bit silly because I suspect that 99% of the population would have problems with these questions e.g. the linguistics, the abiogenesis problem and fine tuning argument are very different disciplines.
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 1,000BC?
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?
Better having no answers than having invented and absurd ones.