“Ten Questions That an Atheist Can’t Answer”?—I’m Up for the Challenge

Update, May 2018: When I first came across this YouTube video in early 2017 the comments section was disabled. But I now see that the section was activated a few months ago. Great for others but no matter to me. I wrote my answers in April 2017 and here those answers will remain. Here we go, again (with some minor revisions [and more in September 2020 and September 2023]).

Update, April 2024: I see that the comments section has been disabled again!

1. Does science answer everything? No — or at least not yet. There are plenty of things we don’t understand about existence. But maybe you meant to ask, Can science answer everything? Here’s what I say to that. There is no other method outside of employing observation, experiment, reason, and logic that can give us answers about the nature of the world and the universe. Sam Harris once offered a challenge on this point: “I challenge you to think of a question upon which we had a scientific answer, however inadequate, but for which now the best answer is a religious one.” There isn’t a believer of any religion on the planet who can mount a persuasive response. History shows that when it comes to understanding ourselves, the planet, and what we know (so far) about the cosmos, science works. Religion doesn’t.