1. Atheists only promote divisiveness, as any other separatist movement.

Comment #98692 by f0xfree on December 14, 2007 at 4:09 am

Science unifies.

2. All worldviews are merely paradigms, narratives having no more inherent value than any other narrative.

Comment #98691 by f0xfree on December 14, 2007 at 4:09 am

A worldview can reflect the actual world, so it is not 'merely' a product of the mind, which itself is an emergent property caused by actual conditions of this world.

3. A universe that follows 'laws' implies a 'law giver'

Comment #98690 by f0xfree on December 14, 2007 at 4:05 am

Fundamentalists understand laws in this biblical sense and not in the way physics understand laws as natural conditions of the universe produced by the Big Bang.

4. How can the Earth be so perfectly suited for life by coincidence?

Comment #98688 by f0xfree on December 14, 2007 at 4:03 am

The questions begs an accidental nature when in fact the solar system is ordered by gravitional forces allowing for our planet to be in a position to support life.

5. Why do atheists care about what others believe when it doesn't affect atheists?

Comment #98649 by f0xfree on December 14, 2007 at 1:37 am

Altruistic genes. We care for others because we want them to care about us. The gene survives. Idiologies attempt to change, alter or manipulate that human feature.

6. How do you explain the lack of transitional forms in nature, the gaps in the fossil record?

Comment #98634 by f0xfree on December 14, 2007 at 1:00 am

By reading The Origin Of Species (1859).

Especially Chapter 9: On the Imperfection of the Geological Record.

The original question begs that the record is perfect to begin with. Darwin showed why it was not... over 100 years ago.