God is real

Argument from morality"However, how did we get those universal liberties. In the end, we keep on going back to the fact that there is something universal outside evolution, and you have yet to explain how this happened outside evolution. I feel that god better explains "universal liberties" than an evolutionary process that occurred across many different species and cultures of humans"We made those universal liberties, we were the ones who decided morals, we work with the foundations laid down by evolution and build a sky scraper above them. We do not want to be subjugated so we agree not to subjugate others and much the same for almost all of our modern morality. "You somehow believe in a world where sometimes there are objective morals that better fit your argument and that there are subjective morals that support your argument. I would say you need to choose whether you believe in subjective or universal morality, because you seem to believe in both at the same time. "I don't think there are absolute morals in the same way you appear to. There are many ways to produce moral systems. The one I like is: Imagine yourself looking in on society before you enter it, you don't know who you will be, you don't know what race you will be, what your sexuality would be, you don't know what language you will speak. You then have to design a system of morality, you would design a system where everyone is treated fairly (please note that this is only a mental exercise) . Self Sacrifice"This social setting works if our conscience declares that we should only care for our family members. "No in our ancestral setting we lived around very close family members and so it would be advantageous to give up our lives for people in these groups. I'm sure you can see how a group of individuals sharing this gene would survive and propagate better than a society that didn't share that gene. I good example of this is honey bees. A honey bee will sting a person who gets too close to the nest, killing themselves but keeping the colony as a whole alive. This is a process that takes millions of years, these impulses would have taken millions of years to fully archive. Ontological Argument I'll grant you I did completely misunderstand this. First I don't think that something that is so incredible that something greater than it cannot be imagined means that that it does exist. I don't think anything greater than the universe can be conceived of, just think of the universe, there are at least 10 to the 78th power atoms in the universe each containing electrons, protons and neutrons, all containing many quarks, there are 500 billion galaxies in the universe each containing hundreds of billions of stars each made up of hundreds of trillions of atoms. I don't think that anything greater that that could possibly be conceived and I don't think we can even conceive the universe we find ourselves in. The Christian God"God condemned the Canaanites to die for their sinful ways, so I will take any connection to Yahweh to the Canaanites with a grain of salt. "The Canaanites did worship Yahweh (along with a pantheon) and the Jews came from the Canaanites, there is very little way to get around this. Your statement assumes that a god exists. "This God so commonly shown as bad in the Old Testament was simply punishing the people who sinned against him. "Isaiah 13:15-18:"Anyone who is captured will be run through with a sword. Their little children will be dashed to death right before their eyes. Their homes will be sacked and their wives raped by the attacking hordes. For I will stir up the Medes against Babylon, and no amount of silver or gold will buy them off. The attacking armies will shoot down the young people with arrows. They will have no mercy on helpless babies and will show no compassion for the children. "Really? This is Yahweh "simply punishing the people who sinned against him. "Joshua 6:20-21:"When the trumpets sounded, the army shouted, and at the sound of the trumpet, when the men gave a loud shout, the wall collapsed; so everyone charged straight in, and they took the city. 21 They devoted the city to the Lord and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it"men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys. "So when Yahweh orders the killing of an entire city including children he is "simply punishing the people who sinned against him. ". What is Joshua used zyklon b instead of swords? Would that still be justified? How is this kind of genocide ever permissible under your own "absolute morality"? "Also, as many atheists and theists alike do, you avoid verses that show God's love in the Old Testament. Of course you stay away from the books in Psalms and the Songs of Solomon, because they refute your point. "The song of Solomon reads more like a regular human love poem, allow me to quote from it, Song of Solomon 7:"How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince's daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman.2 Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies.3 Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.4 Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.5 Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held in the galleries.6 How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!7 This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.8 I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples;9 And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.10 I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me.11 Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.12 Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.13 The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved. "And there are equally as many horrific chapters in the book of psalms as any other book, Psalm 137:9:"Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones. " "This does not point to a bunch of crazy stories, but a book biased on real persons experiences. "While I'm sure it was unintentional I think the word "biased" really does sum up the bible.