The pointlessness of atheism

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so you know applause can be for Hare Krishna the pointlessness of atheism Richard Dawkins is considered by many to be one of the world’s leading atheists and in his book God Delusion he argues, he reports one incident which conversation which he had with Jim Watson and he says that some people say that science thing explains how things happen and religion explains what we are here for so Jim Watson replies that actually I don’t think we are here for anything we are simply products of evolution and there is no purpose to life then somebody may ask that oh then what is the point of living, your life must be very bleak but Jim Watson says that oh but I am looking forward to lunch, I am going to have a good lunch and we did have a good lunch now here Dawkins is in a mood of self-congratulation that is typical of atheistic fanatics and we look at the holes in logic in this particular incident so he argues that because we are products of evolution we are not here for anything so if we are not here for anything then is it that what is the point of quoting this particular incident he is quoting this incident because he wants to make a point that we are not here for anything so Kurt Davis has written a book called Science Delusion in which he states that it is as if Jim Watson is saying that life has no purpose but my life had a purpose I won a Nobel Prize so nobody lives in a way as if whatever they are doing doesn’t have any point in fact this anecdote comes in Richard Dawkins book The God Delusion and at the start of the book he says if this book works as it as I intend it to then religious believers who pick up this book by the time they read the book and put it down they will have become atheists so now again if we see the book has a purpose so life does not have a purpose but the book has a purpose the quoting of an anecdote in a book has a purpose so how convenient that Dawkins can get a purpose to pop in and out of existence as per his purpose has he got the power of the God whom he is so bent on denying we see that when atheists especially fanatical atheists they live in this particular way they are weirdly happy about the pointlessness of life but when they are happy about the pointlessness of life the result of that is that even their atheism becomes pointless their attempt to get people to give up religion and take up atheism also becomes pointless so everything becomes pointless so it is as if someone you know there is an old saying that don’t throw stones at those who live in glass houses should not throw stones at others but here what we have is atheists are actually throwing stones at others while claiming that stones don’t exist that means nothing has a purpose we are not here for anything and therefore I am writing this book to convince you that you should become an atheist so what is the point of becoming an atheist then what is the point of doing anything at all if there is no point to anything ultimately that’s just one of the problems another problem is that if we consider the point that they had a good lunch now that’s what Jim Watson says but what is a good lunch now after all how do we define any conception of goodness or badness now here because Jim Watson and Dawkins are scientists so people get the notion that they are actually talking science but here they are not talking science they are talking scientism scientism is the is the non-scientific ideology that lives as a parasite on science this is a parasite sucks the light from its host similarly scientism actually erodes the credibility of science it forces it extends science beyond its jurisdiction and make science make claims that are not defensible that are not valid that are not sound so science is a science is a body of knowledge that gives us natural explanations for natural phenomena natural means material science observes nature and tries to explain things based on nature if everything were purposeless going back to the earlier point quickly then when Newton saw the fruit falling you know he would not have done anything about it if Newton had not he had not seen the fruit if he had thought that life has no purpose except a good lunch then he would have probably picked up the fruit and eaten it and that would have been the end of the story and there would have been no gravity there would have been no modern science if there had been no modern science then there would be no one to give Richard Dawkins his piggyback his free ride Dawkins propagates his ideology of atheism riding piggyback on the credibility and the prestige of science so therefore here we need to recognize that there is a science has a purpose the purpose is to give natural explanations to natural phenomena and these explanations basically are not just natural in the sense of they are mechanical and preferably mathematical but there is much of reality which does not is not explainable in mechanical or mathematical terms so for example what is taste what is good taste if we are just products of evolution why should anyone care that some taste is good why should anyone if we are just driven survival Richard Dawkins one of his book is selfish genes so if we are just survival driven selfish genes then all that should matter is whether the food helps one to survive or not why does it matter whether we are able to whether the food taste good or not and what is good taste anyway basically when we eat food the matter that comprises the food comes in contact with the matter that comprises our tongue and there is certain sensory experience after that why should we call it good and why should good be considered better than bad no actually scientism which is what atheism uses now scientism has no sense of anything beautiful or ugly and yet scientists actually talk about values so they are like people who say that all currency is false and then they claim oh we have got a million dollars in the same currency this is hypocrisy to say that actually there is nothing good there is nothing bad because everything is ultimately just interaction of matter, matter colliding with matter, leptons and bosons one stream interacting with another stream of leptons and bosons what is good or what is bad about it there is no meaning left to anything and there is no meaning left to anything there is no meaning to the claim good itself and that’s why when there is no meaning to the claim good to argue that we are having a good lunch it just indicates a self satisfied thoughtlessness and such self satisfied thoughtlessness is not science in fact it doesn’t even represent atheism properly there are other atheists who are embarrassed by the way atheism is presented by the ilk of Dawkins, Michael Drews is an atheist and a philosopher of science and he says that the god delusion makes me embarrassed to be an atheist now it is said that an old jewish saying says that have your ears heard what your mouth has spoken even a person speaks illogically there is a saying used to chide the person so actually Dawkins is so self satisfied in his thoughtlessness that he is deafened to what he is hearing but other atheists are hearing and they are embarrassed so what this is simply atheistic fanaticism atheistic fundamentalism where they argue that there is no purpose except mine if anyone else has this currency it is false when I have it it is true this is fanaticism and now in today’s world we recoil in horror when we encounter religious fanaticism and we need to recoil in similar horror when we encounter atheistic fanaticism also thank you