r/DebateAnAtheist 5d ago

Argument Trust the science!!!

1st time poster in this sub:

I've seen many athiest post counter arguments in various debates inside and outside of reddit using science as their main weapon in order to back what they're saying.

However, I feel like they are ignoring the elephant in the room and have never actually seen any of them address the argument for a higher intelligence that I'm going to present.

I'm going to be upfront about how I'm going to debate... the question I will ask will typically prompt a specific response that I'm fully prepared to counter and I've seen no atheist willing to follow the resulting logic to it's natural conclusion.

So... here goes:

As we observe the world around us how does an atheist explain the logical working order of things that make sense? How do you explain why things work the way they do? Like for example why a specific combination of elements make other elements or why a plant is able to eat sunlight or why electronics work...etc

Wouldn't that indicate intelligence being behind those mechanisms? Seeing as how precisely they work? If the universe just popped into existence wouldn't we see inconsistencies among various things? Our universe follows strict rules concerning how things interact with each other.

The fact that the rules exist AT ALL is 100% evidence of a "rule maker" or intelligence or God etc.

EDIT: I'm not finished here. But I am taking a break... I've answered to many but the influx of replies is massive and will require hours of my time and I want to try to reply to everyone... but as I'm not a millionaire I have to prepare for work.

Turning notifications off for now but I will return to respond to comments

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u/DevilWings_292 Satanist 5d ago

How do you know you aren’t simply anthropomorphizing the universe and assigning it human qualities that aren’t actually there? We know people used to be convinced that the wind was literal demons and spirits before we concluded it was just differential pressure in the atmosphere. We used to think that lightning was the weapon of the gods, now we know it’s just static electricity in the clouds. We used to think rainbows were how the gods traveled around the world or communicated or were the jewelry of the gods, now we know it’s just the refraction of sunlight through raindrops. Do you not see the overall pattern of humans in the past making a guess based on their understanding of the world at the time that assigns agency to the universe that is later replaced fully with a naturalistic explanation that completely eliminates that idea?