How is atheism self-refuting?
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If atheism is true, then it is false.
You may wonder how this is possible. Actually, if atheism is true, that means there is no guiding force behind all the natural processes. That the imperative for existence is simply survival of the fittest.
And atheists themselves, atheist scientists or atheist philosophers themselves acknowledge that the purpose of evolution is to make us fitter for, they say that, for fighting, fleeing, mating and feeding. F-F-F-E-M, they say. Fighting, fleeing, feeding and mating.
So, purpose of evolution is not to discern the truth. So, evolution has equipped all living beings including humans for these bodily activities. And therefore, if so many millions of human beings have by evolution got the idea that there is some God, when there is absolutely no reality to the idea of a God, then that means evolution has played a freakish joke on all of us.
That evolution has made our minds in such a way that we have no capacity to discern truth from false. And millions of us are prompted by evolution to, are prompted by the way evolution has shaped our minds or brains to believe in God. So, if that is the case, that our minds are, evolution has made our minds to be so irrational, so prone to deception, then how can we know that the opposite of religious belief, the opposite of theism is atheism.
That atheism is also a true belief. Because the mind is, by evolution the mind is not discerned to determine the truth. And evolution has made the mind in such a way that it has made us believe one untruth.
That is to believe in God. So, how can anyone know that another conception of the mind, that is atheism, that the God exists. How could that, how could that, how can we know that that is true? In fact, if we accept atheism in its entirety, then that raises a serious question about our mind’s capacity to perceive any truth.
And therefore, it undermines the truth value of any belief system, including atheism. So, if we strictly follow atheism, then none of our beliefs can be deemed to be true. Not even theism, not even atheism.
And even science itself operates on the faith that our senses give us a reasonable picture of reality. But the reasonable picture of reality that is given by evolution to us is not for the purpose of scientific enquiry, for understanding even the nature of nature, what to speak of the nature of something beyond nature. It is again simply for surviving and reproducing.
So, even our faith in science becomes undermined by, even our validity of scientific knowledge comes in question because ultimately scientific knowledge is a conception that has arrived at by our mind. So, nobody can conclude that we have right now arrived at the zenith of evolution. And therefore, what the belief that we have right now, say of atheism is a more right belief than a wrong belief.
Because evolution, scientists themselves acknowledge that it is not actually directed towards discerning truth. So, in that sense, if it is true in terms of everything having come out by evolution without any guiding principle to it,