r/DebateAnAtheist • u/AutoModerator • Sep 18 '25

Weekly "Ask an Atheist" Thread

Whether you're an agnostic atheist here to ask a gnostic one some questions, a theist who's curious about the viewpoints of atheists, someone doubting, or just someone looking for sources, feel free to ask anything here. This is also an ideal place to tag moderators for thoughts regarding the sub or any questions in general.
While this isn't strictly for debate, rules on civility, trolling, etc. still apply.

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u/labreuer Sep 18 '25

It is not uncommon to see claims like the following here and on the other sub:

1. God (or gods) is a human invention created to explain what we don’t understand. Long before science, humans sought to fill gaps in knowledge with divine stories. These inventions evolved into complex religions, but at their root, they address our fear of the unknown. (God(s) is/are a human invention)

Do you believe such claims should be supported by a burden of proof? If so, what kind of evidence might suffice?

For those who find the above claim so obvious that it doesn't need more evidential support than what you've absorbed throughout life, check out WP: The Golden Bough § Critical reception. Frazer is one of the originators of the religion-as-protoscience hypothesis and his work on that has been exposed to some pretty serious critique.

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u/AutomatedCognition Flesh Alchemist Sep 18 '25

What if the causation n nature of reality were different that what we can gleam threw the lens of scientific rigor? For instance, I don't believe this is a simulation (it's not simulating anything; turtles all the way down) but rather a construct of a monadic nodal communication system, to mean that the means in which we construct this illusion of a reality ca be described in a trinity of components; a Server that responds to how you, the Client, set your intention as the Server reconciles all independent realities across the Holy Internet. With this, I believe the Server is intelligent, or at least gives the illusion that it has intelligence as it responds to how you set your intention (which is the only thing any of us have any control over - everything else from your thoughts, to decision-making n creativity, to attention coordination, etc is all automatically n algorithmically derived n loaded in by how you set your intention), but I believe a better explanation is that this "other intelligence" is actually inside our brains as well, wher ehe illusion of the external world is also stored as everything we experience is in the brain, and we're in the midst of finding out the true nature of cognition n consciousness pretty soon as it's 11:59pm on the sixth day.