{"id":3344,"date":"2017-05-25T03:17:34","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T10:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=3344"},"modified":"2017-05-25T03:17:34","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T10:17:34","slug":"molecules-say-the-darnedest-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=3344","title":{"rendered":"Molecules Say The Darnedest Things"},"content":{"rendered":"

Question from ‘name’:<\/strong>
\nMy question is, really, why would an atheist care to talk or explain his \u2018atheism\u2019, if we are just molecules and will vanish one day?
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\nAnswer by SmartLX<\/a>:<\/strong>
\nBecause all matter is atoms and molecules. Molecules differ from atoms in that they are more complex, being made up of multiple atom types (elements) and thus able to act and interact in a potentially unlimited number of ways. To the point, enough molecules of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen and nitrogen (and traces of many other elements) can form a brain, an organic computer which can in principle do the following:
\n– Understand the general concept of a god.
\n– Make a judgement that it’s unlikely or impossible that such a thing exists.
\n– Make a further judgement that belief in a god is ultimately harmful, or at least that lack of belief is preferable, based primarily on empathy for other beings with brains.
\n– Formulate arguments against the concept and find ways to spread them.
\n
\nEven if you think God created the brain, you have to admit it’s capable of doing all this. Which of course means God created atheists, which is something Christians must explain for themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Question from ‘name’: My question is, really, why would an atheist care to talk or explain his \u2018atheism\u2019, if we are just molecules and will vanish one day? Answer by SmartLX: Because all matter is atoms and molecules. Molecules differ from atoms in that they are more complex, being made up of multiple atom types … Continue reading “Molecules Say The Darnedest Things”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[563,561,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism-2","category-science-2","category-text"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pB6tr-RW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3344"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3346,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3344\/revisions\/3346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}