With some more scientific details added, this video from Stated Clearly expresses the same basic idea as I did in Abiogenesis by Natural Selection, which is that life evolved from non-living replicators that were RNA or something similar.
The argument from existence claims that we must presuppose God to account for existence. But can the existence of God really explain existence?
Evolution by natural selection didn’t start with life. Anything that can replicate itself can evolve. Life came about from the evolution of non-living replicators.
On May 31, 2014 Sye Ten Bruggencate and Matt Dillahunty debated whether it is reasonable to believe that God exists. Here I analyze in depth Sye Ten Bruggencate’s opening argument.
Sam Harris has said, There aren’t a lot of bad people. There are a lot of bad ideas, and bad ideas are worse than bad people, ’cause bad ideas are contagious, bad ideas get good people to do horrible things.
I want to highlight and elaborate on this.
Anti-natalism is the position that procreation is morally wrong, and I believe that some Christians and Muslims should be anti-natalists. Let me stress the word some here. I specifically have in mind those Christians and Muslims who believe in eternal damnation in Hell.
Existential Instantiation and Existential Generalization are two rules of inference in predicate logic for converting between existential statements and universal statements.
