Erica Cathers

“Silence fell in the room. They thought for a while and then the oldest brother shouted: “I have an idea!” The two younger brothers listened to him very carefully. “We can clean up after each game,” he suggested. “Then it won’t take so much time.”
― Shelley Admont, I Love to Keep My Room Clean

“If you follow events backwards through time, you will always find a preceding event that led to it, but theists reason that this chain of events could not go on forever. Something must have started all of it into motion. Since events cannot cause themselves, something else must have existed first to cause all of these things. This might seem like a reasonable argument, but it falls victim to the same problem as the hypothetical God behind the argument from design, as discussed in Chapter 1: if everything has a cause or a creator, then who created God? And who, then, created the entity that created God? Rather than solving the problem of infinite causality, the cosmological argument simply recreates the problem using different terms. God is used as an answer, but in reality, the issue of God simply raises new questions. You cannot solve a mystery by using a bigger mystery as the answer.”
― Armin Navabi, Why There Is No God: Simple Responses to 20 Common Arguments for the Existence of God

“She could draw well. She helped her mother keep the house clean. She had pretty curls. She made people happy. She was great at making pottery.”
― Jessica Arnold, I am Good at Lots of Things

“While the theistic argument claims that the First Law of Thermodynamics proves that there needs to be a source for all matter and energy in the universe, in fact, there are other ways that this could be true. For example, the universe, or multiple universes, could have existed forever with the same amount of matter and energy. Or the universe’s, or multiple universes’, positive and negative energy could add up to zero. We simply don’t yet know the complete workings and laws of the universe at this point in time, but that doesn’t mean that we can fill in the gaps of our knowledge with God. In fact, if God can create matter and energy, why couldn’t a natural process that we do not understand yet do the same as well?”
― Armin Navabi, Why There Is No God: Simple Responses to 20 Common Arguments for the Existence of God