Arthur C. Clarke, Nadine Gordimer, Isaac Asimov, Arthur Miller, Wole Soyinka, Gore Vidal, Douglas Adams, Germaine Greer, Iain Banks, José Saramago, Terry Pratchett, Ken Follett, Ian McEwan, Andrew Motion, Martin Amis, Michel Houellebecq, Philip Roth, Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie,Norman MacCaig, Philip Pullman, Matt Ridley, Harold Pinter, Howard Brenton, Tariq Ali, Theodore Dalrymple, Roddy Doyle, Redmond O’Hanlon, Diana Athill, Christopher Hitchens. All these renowned writers said, there is no God. There are hundreds of thousands of writers in the world say the same thing, God doesn’t exist. Why shouldn’t they say? It’s just common sense.
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sharmistha
January 16, 2013 at 2:27 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
This is high time boss, ops sorry God…plz turn up
Mashuque Mazumder
January 16, 2013 at 3:37 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Removing these great people as said God is really unnecessary I think.
Agni_B
January 16, 2013 at 4:42 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Billion Muslims think Allah exist- does not make them right- same logic applies to your above mentioned people
We can’t define and have no clue about the attributes of God –but so arrogant and doctrineted to assert that he does exist or does not exist
It is called atheist/scientific fundamentalism- just another new cult
No scientist ever said ‘Eureka, found the formula –‘God doesn’t exist’- Believe is not science –just speculations
Einstein – believed in natural God not personal- His famous line’ God does not play dice…’
Human lack the brain power to comprehend the complexity of God mechanism etc. you have to have a god like intellect to understand God
Scientist –human, science- is not. Scientist only knows tiny bit of universal laws- billions trillion s things- remains to be discovered and understood
billyeager
January 16, 2013 at 6:06 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Oh Agni_B, short on logic, long on fallacy.
Atheists/scientist, whatever, never declare they have proven God doesn’t exist, that would be as equally impossible as it would be for you prove my dear friend, mr invisible pink unicorn, doesn’t exist. You can’t do it.
But, equally, I cannot prove he does. So do we declare the issue one where we are equally right? Of course not, you buffoon, it’s up to the people who are making shit up to provide reasonable evidence as to why their made up shit is ‘real’.
You even provided for the absurd logical fallacy of ‘we can’t define and have no clue about the attributes of God’. Well, neither can we do same for my dear, dear friend, mr invisible pink unicorn. After all, while we’re in the game of making shit up, we might as well insist that the qualities of the ‘shit’ concerned are utterly undefinable.
I don’t have to assert ‘there is no god’, I merely have to ask you to provide evidence to support your assertion that there is. You, however, opt for the dishonest claim that you’d have to actually have the intellect of a God in order to even ‘understand’ it’s ‘complexities’.
You, my friend, are a tosser of word salad. May your reality remain ever confusing and beyond your comprehension. Which it will if you keep insisting on being such a tosser.
Agni_B
January 17, 2013 at 2:46 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
If you can’t understand my logic- no chance for you to comprehend God-
Lots of babble from you –but no compelling argument
If you are an atheist – and can’t prove God does not exist- just shut your gob-and don’t be an imbecile
1)- No scientist ever said they have proof- just speculation
2) Science examine how the laws of universe works with all its complexity- not looking for God.- which no one knows what it is.
3) Atheism is just another cult now- propagating ideas and believes like Jihadist and hooker for Jesus.
4) Theist/ Atheist are in same boat- none can prove or disprove anything- that
Was my point- don’t know about yours
David Wells
January 17, 2013 at 5:57 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Agni B,
You are right on three points.
1) Simply asserting that these people have said there’s no God is as fallacious as billions of Muslims saying that Allah is real does not make Allah any more or less real.
2) Scientists have never made a discovery and said “ah, therefore God doesn’t exist.” They have, through time said: “ah, so that’s how that works, obviously that supernatural explanation that we most-likely made up to explain the phenomena we now have a wholly naturalistic explanation for is bunk and can be relegated to mythology.”
3) We cannot prove that God does not exist (or that he does), and we don’t know everything about the universe, so yes, hypothetically there’s a gap somewhere that God can fit into, and the definition of what god may or may not be can continually to be twisted and fabricated to fill that ever-changing emptiness of ignorance that humans will (hopefully) continue to fill with knowledge, as one of our most beneficial characteristics is to continue to seek answers for the questions we do not know the answer for yet.
However, that being said, if we have no proof, no evidence, no reason to believe he exists…then why do it? If there is some reason other than belief in something utterly unproven for beliefs sake, then I would love to hear it. Some philosophical argument that said god does, or is even likely to exist other than blind-faith.
I’m sure you’ve heard it before, but let me restate one of the basic argument that many of these people have tried to make: Zeus, Unicorns, elves, Odin, pink dragons, Ketzalkoatl, Osiris, Leviathan, Mammon, Enki, Tiamat, Allah, Yahweh, Peter Pan, Sasquatch, Jehovah, Chupacabra, etc. (http://www.godchecker.com/), what possible reason would for believing in any one particular God or proposed mythical entity without proof or evidence, when you don’t believe in the others whose existence have more or less the exact same lack of proof attesting to them?
That’s all we’re asking: What possible reason for believing without evidence just for belief’s sake? What purpose does it serve?
p.s. Please for the sake of my sanity do not throw out Pascal’s wager…really tired of that nonsense.
Agni_B
January 17, 2013 at 6:26 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
David W
Glad to see you still preserved your independent mind
and have not joined the band wagon
Only Buddha, I think, was not interested in finding God’s existence – he thought it was not important
and also incomprehensible- “finite mind can’t comprehend the infinite….”
Agni B
No One
January 17, 2013 at 9:37 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Agni_B
And how do you know this? Your saying it does not make it so. Sounds like made up bullshit. Perhaps if you look in your hat you can find where there is gold in the earth.
Agni_B
January 17, 2013 at 6:50 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Let me simplify for your understanding-
Can a brick layer (no offence) without any education comprehend Einstein “E= MC²?” – Or can you converse theory of relativity if not a physicist
If you looking for bullshit- try any toilet
No One
January 17, 2013 at 8:09 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Let me clarify. Your simplification is bullshit (offense intended). Einstein existed. Physicists exists. I don’t need to understand them to know that they exist. So to draw comparisons to between existing intellect and an intellect that there is no evidence for is I believe a false equivocacy.
And as an afterthought how would you know what criteria is necessary in order understand the mind of this imaginary being? I mean since you would need a godlike intellect and all that.
And as an after, afterthought… bulls do not shit in toilets. I’ve seen cats do it, but never bulls. More magical thinking on your part?
Carbon12Atom
January 18, 2013 at 9:32 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Yes, a brick layer without any education can comprehend Einstein “E= MC². Yes, a non physicist can converse theory of relativity. Yes, everybody can see you absolutely diluted with bullshit. That is the dumbest shit I’ve ever heard.
Mashuque Mazumder
January 17, 2013 at 1:22 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Existence of God would have been solved at the first day of human conscience appeared to humankind,but it was not and remained same till date. As suppose actually substances are science. So as per my idea no science exists at all like God.
billyeager
January 17, 2013 at 2:37 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Oh I understand your logic or, rather, your fallacious logic.
Ooh, how clever of you to completely ignore the valid argument I made by simply claiming I didn’t! Genius.
Either you’re an idiot or you are dishonest to the core.
I don’t have to prove anything, science doesn’t have to prove anything, you do.
What don’t you understand about making an assertion? I think you’ll find the label ‘imbecile’ applies to the party in this conversation who doesn’t appear to understand what an assertion is.
You assert, “God exists”, we say, “Where’s the evidence?”
You cannot keep ignoring that question by applying additional attributes to your ‘God’. Prove your ‘God’ exists first.
Agni_B
January 17, 2013 at 7:00 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Position your spectacles and read again- never stated God exist or does not exist.
So don’t need to prove anything- Proof should come from Theist and Atheist
billyeager
January 18, 2013 at 6:01 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Well by the simple fact that you declare “God” to be far too complex for us to understand, you are asserting that a God exists according to your absurd premise of arbitrarily assigning attributes to it.
Atheist’s have nothing to prove, we’re not the ones asserting anything.
You’re the one who has asserted the existence of a God by way of it having attributes we could not possibly understand. Which is, quite simply, one of the most fallacious and hilariously nonsensical assertions I have heard in a long time.
Thanks for the laugh.
Mohsen Nourani
January 18, 2013 at 6:39 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Richrd Dawkins did not say god does not exist. He said: ” we don’t know if it exists.”
No One
January 19, 2013 at 12:00 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
That’s why he wrote “The god delusion”. He is a 6 on a scale of 7 in disbelief. He probably would say the same thing about Rusell’s Teapot and leprechauns. That which is posited without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. It is disingenuous to quote him out of context .
No One
January 19, 2013 at 12:10 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Richard Dawkins bibliography:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins_bibliography
Reading some of his books might prevent uninformed posts (about Richard Dawkins) in the future.
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