Kirk Cameron Reminds Me I'm Agnostic

Check out this video where Kirk Cameron and some other dude explain why all atheists are wrong, mostly by utilizing intelligent design arguments.

He's absolutely right about atheists - I don't understand how people can assert that there is no god. However, I think a lot of atheists aren't saying that the existence of god is impossible, just that it's about as likely as say the existence of chimpanzee leprechauns controlling the weather with voodoo and a giant computer made of sandpiper bones. In other words, they ask why believe in a Christian god versus a Muslim god versus Hindu gods versus Greek gods versus (use your imagination (which I did for a brief moment in the last sentence)).

Still I'm agnostic because I think there really is so little we actually know and/or understand about our world and the universe. One reason I'm agnostic, as opposed to Christian, is because I haven't seen any evidence that a Christian god (or any god) exists. This brings me to the silly argument Kirk and his pal made on the video about intelligent design.

It basically comes down to this: anything complicated, especially if it appears to have some purpose, must have been created by some other intelligent being, therefore God exists and you must worship him or you will burn in hell for eternity. Whoa Kirk!

They use the examples of a building and a car. When we see a building, even if we didn't see anyone make it, we know it was designed and created. Same with a car. We know they didn't just appear. So the same must follow for trees and bananas and the various bacteria that cause vomiting and diarrhea. But we actually know that a building was created because we have actually witnessed a building being built, we've seen it on television or in person, we've heard about it from others, and we quickly discovered at an early age what is created by man and what is not. We base this on what we have actually experienced, not the fact that it is complicated or appears to have a purpose. I've never seen anyone create a tree or a scorpion, though I have seen animals reproduce and plants grow from seeds. That's basically what I know about living things' creation and development, and from this I cannot jump to the conclusion that an intelligent being created living things or designed them for some purpose.

There is ample evidence all over the place and every day that buildings and cars are designed and created by humans, but I've never walked down the street and seen God, with his long beard and birkenstocks, wearing a hard hat and constructing a giant boa constrictor. Have you?

There are so many other silly arguments they make, but I will be lucky if anyone reads this far, so I won't even start to take those on.