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Non-random Random Number Generators and Spirit

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Non-random Random Number Generators and Spirit

Non-random Random Number Generators and Spirit

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutesThere’s no such thing as an independent random number generator.

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Behold America, Lying Horribly Before Us

Behold America, Lying Horribly Before Us

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 4 minutesAmericans exist in a nation of failed families. A nation which sacrifices the unborn for convenience. It’s a nation of shattered homes, and of nuclear families ripped asunder, where they even existed in the first place. A nation where commitment and lifelong together-goals are scorned and derided as superstitious relics of a bygone era.

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Live Not by Lies: Therapeutic Destruction of Meaning

Live Not by Lies: Therapeutic Destruction of Meaning

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 6 minutesIn an age that seeks to force you into mental compliance, because surely you alone are left, do not give in, no matter how the temptation is packaged. Live Not by Lies.

Pedophilia and Atheism

Pedophilia and Atheism

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutesOne of the stranger things about atheism is that pedophilia isn’t a choice under it. Why? Because the laws of cause and effect outside of the head don’t stop in the inside of the head.

What About Your Terrible Future

What About Your Terrible Future

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 3 minutesOn atheism, there are not actually various possible futures. That is to say, there is actually only one future that is ever possible. And there is little difference between you and a rock.

Atheism, Possible Futures, and Dadgum Microsoft Clippy

Atheism, Possible Futures, and Dadgum Microsoft Clippy

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutesThis is a serious post, and don’t let Clippy tell you otherwise. Shucks, don’t even let him into your home. He’s a sociopath!

Can You Know That Your Life Isn’t Just a Simulation?

Can You Know That Your Life Isn’t Just a Simulation?

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 5 minutes“We must distinguish between truth, which is objective and absolute, and certainty, which is subjective.” —Popper

But is there a difference between knowledge and certainty?

You Are Not Responsible for Your Thoughts

You Are Not Responsible for Your Thoughts

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 3 minutes“You are no more responsible for the state of your brain in this moment than you are for your height…thoughts simply arise in the mind. But the idea that we as conscious beings are…responsible for the characters of our minds, simply can’t be mapped onto reality.”

“Nihilism is true.”

“Nihilism is true.”

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Reading Time: < 1 minute“There is no such thing as morally right or wrong. Individual human life is meaningless and without ultimate moral value. We need to face the fact that nihilism is true.”  In making sense of atheism, I believe that Christians need to consider carefully the topics of (a) free will and (b) morality. With regard to (b), Alex Rosenberg, the author of “The Atheist’s Guide to Reality,” wrote the opening quote,…

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Richard Dawkins
“Faith is One of the World’s Great Evils,” Declares Man Who Does Not Believe in Evil

“Faith is One of the World’s Great Evils,” Declares Man Who Does Not Believe in Evil

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 3 minutesFinally some good news in this world! In a stunning rebuke of all faiths everywhere, but especially of the really stupid ones, like Christianity, Professor Richard Dawkins has delivered a killing blow.

Climate Change Models Are Not Designed

Climate Change Models Are Not Designed

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 4 minutes“There is at bottom no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pointless indifference…We are machines for propagating DNA…It is every living object’s sole reason for being.” Dr. Richard Dawkins, a famous biologist said that, and on atheism, it seems to me that while it’s sad, it’s also true. One weird aspect that atheism commits one to is the denial of design—design of any sort, not just of…

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Free Will and Science

Free Will and Science

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 3 minutesI once pointed out that most, scientifically minded atheists don’t believe in free will, and noted what one had said in a book. A few people remarked that I was just “quote mining,” which wasn’t really true—I just like to take notes while I’m reading, so I typically have them on hand. Regardless, this picture is pretty amusing, and I hope you’ll find the following quotes of some value in…

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Intentionality is an Illusion

Intentionality is an Illusion

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 5 minutes“Since the brain cannot have thoughts about stuff, it cannot make, have, or act on plans, projects, or purposes it gives itself. Nor, for that matter, can it act on plans that anyone else favors it with. There are no plans. That’s just more of the illusion Mother Nature exploited for our survival.”

The Horror of Modern Man—Free Will and Mass Murder

The Horror of Modern Man—Free Will and Mass Murder

Lucas Necessary
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This is a sensitive topic about murder, so please be warned.

The mass murders in the news are just terrible. In discussing murderers with comedian and avowed atheist Ricky Gervais, famed biologist Dr. Richard Dawkins said,

“I feel as though I have free will, even if I don’t. […] It wasn’t “me” that did the murder…it was my neurons and my genes.”

Under the view of atheism, we know all about the physical universe, and we know that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. As such, free will is a mere illusion. Why?

Because there is no disembodied “spirit” telling your body what to do. How could this invisible “force” control the chemical reactions in the brain to guide it into doing anything? How can there be such a thing as a spirit? It may seem that we have one, but on determinism, you are really nothing more than an equal and opposite reaction of incredible complexity.

As the late Stephen Hawking remarked,

“Given the state of the universe at one time, a complete set of laws fully determines both the future and the past. […] It is hard to see how free will can operate if our behavior is determined by physical law, so it seems we are no more than biological machines and that free will is just an illusion.”

So mass murders, under the view of atheism, are rationally neither evil nor good, but mere working of biological machinery; actions in response to stimuli, albeit complex.

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Why do some people choose to be evil?

Why do some people choose to be evil?

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: < 1 minuteEvil. Why do evil people choose to be the way they are? “You are no more responsible for the state of your brain in this moment than you are for your height…thoughts simply arise in the mind. But the idea that we as conscious beings are…responsible for the characters of our minds, simply can’t be mapped onto reality.“ —Dr. Sam Harris Without a God or dimension of intangible spirit, we…

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Atheism in Regards to Free Will and Personal Identity

Atheism in Regards to Free Will and Personal Identity

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: < 1 minute “You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behaviour of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules.” —Dr. Francis Crick, Human Genome Project  It’s this “no more than” that is important, I think. Under this view atheistic worldview, you don’t exist in a meaningful sense at the level of personal…

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