/lit/ - Literature

>>13081228
So finished reading the synopsis and did some research, here are my opinions:

I can't find a good transcript of the exact arguments used by Josh in his lectures, but one summary has it as follows: >The universe had to have a beginning, and the Big Bang sounds an awful lot like "Let there be light."
A common but flawed argument, just because science doesn't have all the answers, and by definition never will, doesn't mean you can just fill in the gaps with God. There is a good lecture on this by Neil deGrasse Tyson on youtube, search for "God of the gaps". Focus on his arguments and points, not his meme celebrity status or character.
> Scientists don't know how life came about, so God is the best explanation for it.
Same as god of the gaps.
>Radisson (the dreaded atheist philosophy professor) argues based on the authority of Stephen Hawking, but Hawking also said that "Philosophy is dead." (If this doesn't make sense as an argument, don't worry - it shouldn't.)
Not exactly sure how that unfolds in the movie but sounds like a kind of strawman.
>Some smart people are theists, so "it's not intellectual suicide" to believe in God.
Doesn't mean God exists though.
>You can't prove that God doesn't exist.
Doesn't mean God exists though.

The whole thing about Radisson being a believer all along but just "hating God" is a common doctrine taught in Christianity. I don't know exactly where this comes from but some conversations I had with some very devout Christians and how they view things pointed this out. Like all the other flawed circular logic arguments, this one presupposes the existence of God and interprets all humanity not believing in God as just hating God.

Radisson is a hypothetical strawman for Christians to frame atheistic non-belief/lack-of-faith as believing in God bat hating Him.

>inb4 this post is just a desperate cope because I hate God

>>13054044
But I pray every day and God answers my prayers faithfully.

>>13054072
>the absolute state of Christian argumentative sophistication

>>12556584
One way I can think of that they would determine that is that it has to do with thinking you are better than God by not following His word.