Ultimate Atheist Challenge: I Can Design a Better Universe Than God Did! Are you an atheist who thinks the Christian God is a bad designer and that this site is lame? We want to publish your best design ideas that show how stupid we are. We double dare you! No, we triple dog dare you!
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Who wants to tell him that omnipotence wasn’t actually an attribute of El before contact with Persian and Hellenic ideas of divinity? “Stronger than all the other Mesopotamian gods combined” doesn’t necessarily mean “Can create a life-sustaining world with no tornado issues whatsoever”, for instance.
As if they ever would publish any decent ideas.
This is a thing I think often about, actually: fictional mythologies are quite often far more consistent and thought-out than real ones. Like, compare the magic system of literally any tabletob RPG to homeopathy.
I think it’s because people who write fictional mythologies/invent fictional universes etc are usually huge nerds and like to think a lot about such stuff. And because they have no personal investment in it being true, and can just go back and change things if they find an inconsistency.
As for this actual “challenge”: basically any video game. Sleep heals everything, no need to eat to survive, respawn instead of death, no PVP zones, and, most importantly, balancing.
Alright; why do humans eat and breathe through the same orifice, hmm? Also, why the frigg do humans urinate out of their pleasure center (gross), why do we expel most of the mass we eat as waste (horribly inefficient), why are our mouths too small for our teeth (I had to wear braces because of that flaw!), and what’s even the point of spending half our lives asleep? Also why do we have toes if we weren’t descendant from primates?
Seriously, even Klingons are better “designed” than humans are, considering they have redundancies in their body and were able to kill their gods! And they are not even an “ultimate lifeform” like Species 8472! Says a lot about how shoddy we humans are engineered…
What would designing a better universe actually proof? No atheist would accept this challenge because it intrinsically presumes that there is a god! And in contrast to the constant strawman atheists you people create, actual ones usually don’t have illusions of grandeur and think that they can design entirely better and more consistent universes than the one we are living in. So this is one of those stupid “challenges” that creationists always come up with, like “we’ll give you a million dollars if you can show us evidence for evolution in action” only to move the goalpost once such evidence has been shown. That they seriously believe that intelligent people will fall for these traps is actually a bit amusing.
How about a universe where we don't poop anymore? Pooping is gross and inconvenient. Also, we're all immortal, faster than light travel is easy, people can fly, there's no war, nobody is an asshole, we all have magic, nobody gives a fuck about your gender identity or sexual orientation, and you could eat nothing but lasagna 24 hours a day and never get fat.
Oh, trust me, I could design a better universe in my sleep.
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