You're still thinking in terms of a sequence of events rather than a series of train cars pulling one another. That an explosion happened trillions of years ago doesn't explain why hydrogen atoms have to react with each other, or why electrons have to zip around protons. Even supposing that it's happening because of energy released by the big bang, there's no reason why that energy has to be manipulating matter in the way that it is.
And before I go to bed here, check out pic related for another argument by logical deduction, this one from C.S. Lewis.
I’m gonna have to chew on this for a little. Same with the CS Lewis stuff. Thank you.
In the meantime, can anyone tell me about the soul? I just can’t believe in it and I need something to make me believe
Cooper Hughes
Why do people still fall for this terrible bait?
Logan Kelly
It’s sadly not bait I just found edge lord shit as a child and now it’s unbearably hard for me to convince myself to have faith because I keep finding things that are, to my eyes, pretty thorough dismantlings of people’s arguments for faith
Cooper Martin
"The Last Superstition" by Ed Feser is a pretty good refutation of the arguments that you typically see from atheists. The argument here is explored in more depth, and he goes over how atheists misunderstand or misrepresent what is actually being said.
Josiah Gomez
Google "Ipsum Esse Subsistens" and start cracking through the articles there.
You're talking about the past ~300 years. If you consider the whole of human history almost all philosophers were not materialists. Materialism is part of the zeitgeist, in order to become "of note" you have to go along with the zeitgeist.
Modern philosophy loves to invoke materialism when discussing God or spiritual matters, but is strangely silent when it comes to the subject of biological race realism, or sex differences. In order to "get along with the times" you have to assert that a man becomes a woman when he chops his dick off and takes estrogen pills, that men and women are utterly interchangeable, and that there is no such thing as biological racial differences. I have yet to see a single materialist explain how any of those politically correct dogmas could possibly be true according to the premises of materialism.
Where are the "materialist philosophers" arguing that we shouldn't be wasting young women's fertility on pointless make-work careers? Where are the materialists defending Western people's right to maintain control of their homelands and the countries they built? Where are the materialists speaking out against the gaslighting of children into hormonal/surgical mutilation?
There are some who do, but they are "persona non grata", censored from platforms and disqualified from office.
The bottom line, the point of my post, is that the zeitgeist is often wrong, and that it is even steered with deliberate intent by certain factions and powers. You shouldn't be making philosophical deliberations on the basis of what is popular or respected or reputable, you should be making your deliberations on the basis of reason and argument.
Final question: Are those factions and ideas which are materially damaging Western nations and peoples not interested in spiritually damaging them as well? When someone tells you that you should allow millions of Somalians into your country, that your women should squander their fertility in academia and that your children should be rendered sterile through genital mutilation, why believe him when he says that Christianity is a backwards outdated falsehood?
Yeah I know existence exploading out of nothing makes a lot of sense
Jack Adams
Neuroscience is getting so much closer to decisively disproving a purely materialist perspective that it's getting funny watching people persist without doubts in materialism. You ought to study the science more. Only meme-science still has no doubts.
