Barry Lyons
2 min readJun 22, 2020

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The first two questions are not the same. The first question addresses a claim made in the Bible (that is never substantiated); the second question concerns a fact as it relates to modern science.

There is no evidence for “fine-tuning,” as if to imply there’s some coordinating intelligence behind it.

“Trust” can be a form of faith, but it’s best to call it secular faith: “I have faith that Joe will do the right thing” has no supernatural component to it, whereas religious faith always relates to or looks back to supernatural ideas.

I never said carbon was all that was required to have life. I said carbon is an element (no pun intended) of life and perhaps a crucial element at that.

Jesus’s message would be irrelevant to intelligent life forms living elsewhere, such as those living on Twilo (to cite a fun reference from an episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show).

Growing a baby isn’t a “miracle.” It happens to be the natural state of things when it comes to us (and other living creatures).

“There is no evidence that ensouling is a thing.” Tell that to the millions of believers (not just Christians) who disagree with you.

“God offers a relationship with you.” Oh yeah? Seems to me you would first have to supply evidence for the existence of this Celestial Being in order to facilitate this relationship. No such evidence exists.

“Rejecting God’s love is not healthy.” I don’t believe in the existence of God, so it follows that I’m not rejecting anything. This is a cousin to when people say I hate God. Crazy! How can I hate something that I don’t believe in?

Hell is built by humans? Well, that’s quite a twist. I didn’t see that coming!

“Follow the evidence.” What evidence? There is no evidence for the existence of “Satan” or of “God” or of “Heaven” or of “Hell.”

Once again, I win this debate. Believers always come up empty-handed. They generally do so by way of four avenues: by distorting what I’ve written, by ignoring what I’ve written, by not understanding what I’ve written, or by asserting things or making claims for things and ideas for which no evidence is provided.

Good times!

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Barry Lyons
Barry Lyons

Written by Barry Lyons

Lives in New York City, owns too many books and CDs. But then again, there's no such thing as "too many" books and CDs.

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