Open letter to all Atheists.

Logic is fun. Let's try this one, based on your premises:

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To be God, God must be perfect.

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Being God, He cannot create imperfection.

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The Bible was created by God and so must be perfect.

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President Obama, Senator Reid, and me were created by God: therefore, we must be perfect.

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As PaulK pointed out so perfectly, logic is a word machine: pack it with the ingredients you like, and you get perfect little sausages, flavored just the way you like them, out the other end...or at least something shaped like sausages.

So according to you, created beings which almost immediately disobey represents perfection, whereas a created being which evolves and produces more kinds, and in which no such Fall happens means God is imperfect.What you do, then is to take God's creation in which we can show that evolution happens even if we cannot show to you that humans evolved, and judge it to be lacking.What kind of idiot argument is that?

Why? In what way? How?As you have not supplied an argument, it is hard to see whether you're right or wrong.However, I would point out that we can directly observe some evolution, which presumably you do not deny. So unless you want to become an atheist, what you need is an argument that a bit of evolution is compatible with God, but that a bit more isn't. G'luck with that. Again, this would seem to be your opinion. If a teacher teaches the reasons for thinking that evolution is true, and you teach that this necessarily proves that there is no God, which one of you is actually teaching atheism?If a teacher teaches that the sky is blue, and you teach that if there was a God it would be pink with green spots, who is doing more to promote disbelief?

If there is a God, you must admit that he has certainly allowed the world to be littered with misleading scriptures which have deceived billions of people, from the Koran through the Bhagavad Gita to the Gnostic Gospels. I leave it up to you to determine why, but clearly it's not something he feels he needs to put a stop to. As to whether he will apologize for this, again I'll leave it to you to conjecture.

Ahh, yes "No True Scotsman Fallacy". Knew he was going to use it, just surprised it took so long.

Sure, it can. All it requires is to change the meaning of "walnut" to that of "TRUE".It is all to do with language (including naming conventions).

Have you accepted that some Christians have realized that the Bible is not literally inerrant? Or are you maintaining that you cannot see the errors in the Bible and still be a Christian? Are you going to go the bullshit route of "they aren't true Christians"? He'd more likely go: "Dude, there was even a talking snake in that story, how could you think that it actually happened? You know snakes don't talk, right?" The Bible describes God realizing a mistake of his here:

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Gen 6:6 (NIV)

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The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled.

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. False dicotomy. God could have used evolution to create the animals and never intended the story in Genesis to be taken as a literal event.

Do you have any examples of what you are talking about?Who is saying that they don't want you praying?

Perhaps (that is arguable), but you are not working form the inerrant word of God. You are working from your fallible interpretation of the inerrant word of God. An interpretation with which the majority of Christians would disagree.(and, I note, claiming know the Mind of God and tell what makes sense to Him and what does not -- extreme hubris).

If your programming language is not strongly typed, then it is easy to turn 'true' into a 'walnut'.$somevariable = "true";
// Change variable
$somevariable = "walnut";

There seems to be an inconsistency in your arguments. You write: But then you argue in your other posts that establishing certain purely natural propositions (such as the claim that evolution occurred) as fact, would definitively prove that there is no God. You can't be right about both these things.

why must the creator be perfect?

I'm going to start wearing my collar backwards.

Awesome!The bible is not the inherent word of God. It is just words written by men inspired by the Holy Spirit. I think I remeber reading that in the bible. I believe the words to be inspired because once I experienced what I believe to be the Holy Sipirt the words took on a different meaning. You can just call me crazy, I would have to.Also who is to say God didn't create all religions for his purpose? There is a lot of short sighted comments about God and His ways in this thread from atheist. No surprise as it happens in religion too. People always seem to confuse God with religion and people with God. Sad. I think the founding fathers knew the difference though.

First you assert that whether God exists or not depends on whether evolution is true or not then you say that the existence of God cannot be determined from a natural worldview.You appear to be contradicting yourself.