[quote name='cfootball1']That's my problem with atheists, thinking in a mere human mindset exercising reasoning processes that have already been programmed to you since birth by other humans. Elements were discovered by humans, humans named them. So of course to a human it sounds logical and concrete. [/quote]
#1.) I am not an atheist and #2.) Congrats you just perfectly defined religion. #3.) It's pretty damn hard to remove the human equation from everything being a human and all. The fact that we named them doesn't change the fact that they are there. Of course by questioning everything it's a nice little "get out of thinking" card. Hey it could all be a dream too.
Does someone want to venture to answer the question of who created elements? I can almost imagine the spock-like response full of conjecture from someone born in the 1980's on a planet that is millions of years old.
Umm, no one? Why does someone have to create them. Sounds like some "human" is using a "human mindset" that has been programmed to understand something. To answer your questions (and a correction). For starters the earth is billions of years old. Big bang happens ( way before that). Protons and neurons are free floating everywhere, universe cools, tritium, Helium-3, and Helium-4 can form, then hydrogen, millions years go by- nuclei become neutral atoms-dust clouds of neutral atoms become stars and density increases, finally heavy elements can form. Not that you're buying any of this. And all those "magic" elements are easily detectable in the universe.
And perhaps if Science had not already discovered every intricate detail of Gods creation. And we were able to look at our existence, our life and our world for what it is, amazing. And in our complete fascination the notion of a God becomes ever so possible.
Science has never claimed this..only anti-science people do. Why do you need proof? I don't. Do you know what faith even means
I will always respect this kind of Atheist. So that we can examine both schools of thought do in fact sound, ridiculous.
So you "respect" this guy because you agree with what he is saying. Even though, I may point out, what he is saying is complete uneducated bullshit? He would've sounded more informed if he would've said "I reject the Big Bang Theory because who would believe guys are really nerdy like that?"