Originally Posted by Russ
Problems for atheistic evolutionists
Good arguments against evolution

Evolutionists who reject God and miracles have some huge problems to explain.

Problem No. 1
How did the universe come about?

There is no scientific law that allows something to evolve from nothing. If there was nothing in the universe to begin with, obviously nothing could happen to cause anything to appear.

Atheistic evolutionists often try to duck this problem by saying that evolution is not concerned with the origin of life, only how life progressed after it appeared. But assuming the existence of an intricately working universe with some sort of life-forms already in it is not a minor assumption, and puts more faith in an unknown, counter-intuitive process than Christians put in God.


The bolded section is mine for reference.

This comment only works when you are discussing atheism COMBINED WITH evolution. Evolution in and of itself is indeed not concerned with the origin of life in the cosmological sense of the word. If you want to trash atheist-evolutionists you must target atheist-evolutionists and none other, not evolution. You cannot force two definitions together, say that that is how they always operate, and then trash your own self-made definition. See reductio ad absurdum, straw man argument and red herring.

Additionally, how do you measure the so-called faith in the unknown among "atheist evolutionists" as outweighing a Christian's faith in their god? Based on what, exactly, is this conclusion drawn? Faith is simply a belief or trust that something is true. For a Christian to have faith in his or her god is no more or less outstanding a statement than the faith I have in my gods, or that some child has faith a monster lives in the closet, or that an old woman has faith that walking under a ladder will bring her bad luck. Faith is faith, man - you can't put more or less faith in something, you either have it or you don't. See reductio ad absurdum, straw man argument and red herring.