Me—Write a haiku in king James English about atheist intellect.
ChatGPT—Wise in their reasoning, Atheist minds do ponder deep, Truth they do uncover.
Me—300 word blog post on the best arguments for atheism
Chat GPT—Atheism is the belief that there is no god or gods. While atheism has been around for thousands of years, it has become more widely discussed and debated in recent times. Here are some of the best arguments for atheism:
- Lack of empirical evidence: One of the main arguments for atheism is the lack of empirical evidence for the existence of a deity. There has been no scientific proof that can conclusively prove the existence of a god or gods.
- The problem of evil: This argument states that if an all-powerful and all-loving deity exists, why does evil exist in the world? The presence of evil, suffering and natural disasters contradicts the idea of an all-powerful and all-loving deity.
- The argument from nonbelief: This argument states that if there was an all-powerful and all-knowing deity, it would know who would believe in it and who wouldn’t. If this deity wanted everyone to believe in it, it would make it impossible for anyone not to believe.
- Scientific explanations: Science has provided many explanations for phenomena that were once thought to be the work of a deity. For example, the explanation of natural disasters as a result of geological activity has diminished the need for a supernatural explanation.
- Multiple gods: If the existence of one deity is unprovable, it is equally unprovable that there is more than one deity. The existence of many gods would also raise questions about which deity is the correct one to worship.
These are just a few of the arguments that support atheism. While the belief in a deity is deeply personal and subjective, it is important to consider the arguments and evidence presented. Ultimately, the decision to believe in a deity or not is a personal one and should be based on an individual’s own thoughts and beliefs.
In conclusion, atheism is a valid and important perspective that challenges the existence of a deity. It is important to consider the arguments for atheism and engage in open-minded discussions about this topic.
Are these the best arguments? I think we can do a little better.
TheCommonAtheist 
I like #3. “ If this deity wanted everyone to believe in it, it would make it impossible for anyone not to believe”.
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I see the apologetic digital moles have been hard at work compiling the idiotic argument so prevalent amongst the online brain-damaged that atheism is a belief of some kind. God forbid one looks at the word to figure out what it means and go, instead, with the loudest ignoramuses on the interwebs to tell you what THEY – the god fearing righteous kind – think it must mean.
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I caught that to, that atheism is a belief. ChatGPT does have a disclaimer that they are still prone to mistakes.
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Something tells me, Jim, that is never going to be considered an error because this misinformation is so widespread. An atheist basically lacks some good reason to believe in some kind of theism. Geography is a really poor reason but that’s the predominant causal link. Belief in some ethereal spirit or soul – like gender – requires a belief (basically a version of belief in some Prime Mover or First Cause right out of antiquity) and so no one can claim to be an atheist as soon as any kind of belief in the unseen Mover is offered in defence of it.
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Very similar to Covid-19 where the misinformation turned out to be from the trusted establishment.
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RE: COVID, yes and no. The virus mutated and so previous strategies for alpha and delta – generally based on best information and best response for the public good – no longer pertained to omicron. Things like vaccination to stop the spread, things like wearing a mask for protection. The problem was that the strategies were never updated and changed to match reality but used more and more as moral bludgeon and virtue signalling to force people to either go along or be vilified, and so the claim of misinformation combined with increasing authoritarian rule has now caused HUGE damage to trust in the medical establishment. Throw in all the gender ‘medicine’ bullshit (remember, gender is like a soul) and the ground has been prepared for a severance between best medical practices and reality, creating a ‘My truth is what I believe about this’ and ‘Your truth is what you believe about that’ and so no such things as common ground respecting what’s true in reality (true regardless of belief) is available to rebuild trust. In this sense, all of us are being shoe-horned by going along with this partisan divide into being SOME kind of theist… either the good kind or the bad. What’s lost in this replacement religious ideology being imposed on all is what is true in fact.
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I think that comment could equally be applied to religious beliefs. Just swap a few of the words. “The religion mutated”, “go along or be vilified”.
I take it your not a big fan of gender studies. In this I agree. At some point we’re going to have to stop this bs.
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All of this is religion, in the sense that it requires belief to bring the core idea into being. So yeah, gender is not a thing; it’s something to do with how people FEEL about sex-based stereotypes and then conflated with the category of sex in the same way some god has something to do with how people feel about the complexity of life conflated with the category of morality. Remove the belief IN something, remove the something from reality. It’s a fiction.
So, yeah, not a fan of pretending gender is something worth believing in and then being vilified as immoral for not going along to get along with the product of such belief that requires reality-denying claims to be accepted as true.
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I think one of the best arguments against theism, deism, or other such beliefs is that early humans had no gods to worship. They did however, have spirits, such as water spirits, tree spirits, animal spirits, etc. to whom they spoke daily.
My own belief system acknowledges that all living beings do have spirits, and while there might not be water spirits, still the plants, animals, and fish who live in the water do have spirits, so possibly this is what our ancient ancestors realized.
Gods themselves seemed to develop over the millennia as human minds searched for causal entities in nature, but finding none they looked beyond nature, and beyond reality. And they gave these gods the responsibility of being the cause of things they could not understand.
Nowadays, science has addressed many of these things that once were not able to be understood — sunlight, seasons, tornadoes, earthquakes, etc. — things both good and bad, but in the time between needing something to be causal and now knowing the causes, religions and belief in a God or gods has become so entrenched in human thought that many humans are not able to live without keeping these unnatural beings in existence in their minds.
Meanwhile, the belief that goods do not exist is spreading, because it makes sense that they don’t. Eventually, it will become common knowledge, and the word “belief” will no longer be necessary, since there will be no “believers” to contrast to.
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Reading comments posted while I was writing, the word “belief” is definitely in question. While I know there are no gods, I still use the word belief in deference to those who do believe, knowing that they cannot conceive of such knowledge. Right now believers are in the ascendent, but that will change, in time.
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And I forgot to mention, the AI Chat thing certainly has no idea of the true meaning of HAIKU as an art form, thus having to wonder if it can even understand “art.”
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Same as a human! If you ask it multiple times it will give variations.
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When writing haiku
Boundaries must be observed
Ending in wisdom
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Supposed to be an observation of some natural consequence or profundity too, no?
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In a poem of 3 lines, using 5 syllables, then 7, then 5 again. Or at least that is what I was taught in school in 1963. Things may have changed since then. Nothing ever seems to remain the same.
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Two unrelated ideas/observations/descriptions – usually emotional – connecting within the strict form (5,7,5 syllables) to produce insight. In English, this is very difficult. So what we get is usually the 5,7,5 form but only 1 idea expressed poetically. I’ve read excellent haikus in sentence form rather than 3 lines , too. It’s the hidden communication that makes it art and not the form. This is a tough idea to wrap one’s head around.
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Since Japanese works well in haiku and English not so much, Alan Ginsberg invented the American sentence. I’ve seen it little, but gaining traction.
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I hope my haiku, written above, meets your strict standards. It all depends in how you read it, I guess. When we studied haiku in Grade 10 English I don’t remember the part about two unrelated ideas, but maybe my teacher didn’t want to make it that hard on us.
The problems with school is most students rise to expectations, and “very seldom” above. It is far easier to not even come close.
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I thought haiku was invented in the 17th century when you were in elementary school. No?
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Lol. Yeah, I’m older than I look, but if I am immortal, or at least able to live longer than a normal lifespan, I don’t know that yet. Haikus were introduced to me in 1963 or so. Before that I had no idea they existed.
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I thought it was quite good! I’m just saying the ‘communication’ aspect that makes it ‘art’ lies with the hidden meaning inside the connection of the two ideas. That’s what makes the ‘art’ but haikus are taught mostly to form, which makes it ‘craft’. That’s hard, too. But the art is especially difficult in English for the different ideas BECAUSE our words are not pictorial like the original Japanese where the reader participates in discovering the connecting ‘artistic’ element that makes it such a marvel.
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That’s very true of most humans, too, not having much of a clue what art is! And it’s to be expected… considering very few people spend any time whatsoever figuring out the difference between art, craft, emotional expression, and social commentary. Language is so much easier when every term is synonymous with whatever I BELIEVE it to mean.
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But look in any dictionary. There are hardly any English words that have one and only one meaning. The last time I checked the word “run” had 103 meanings, so how can we expect anyone to understand a sentence that runs on and on and on…
Not being conversant in other languages, is there any language on Earth where every word nas one and only one specific meaning? I doubt it, because than would require us to know millions of words, when the average person can only use about 10,000 words correctly (according to scientific studies, though I might have the number wrong). We humans are fickle. Our minds are always looming for the easiest ways to do things,especially talk.
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As a blog, written by a computer app, it’s pretty good. Who was the intended reader? I know little about this app, but will check it out. I would like it to write a couple blogs for me. Evidently there is a problem with students using this app for writing their whatever papers. GROG
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It does a fair job. I asked the questions simply, but you can request many variations. I could have it write in 3rd grade Scottish english from the 18th century, or whatever. It’s pretty good.
I’m sure you could rephrase the question to favor believers as well.
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Interesting computer-generated response. Not too far off, actually. But of course it’s natural that as humans, we would see things from a more emotional POV.
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I asked if god was real and it did exactly that—went into feelings, opinions and beliefs. I should’ve copied and pasted it but it was openly inconclusive.
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Artificial intelligence has no means to do art, which is the means to communicate within a form and reveal the audience to itself. That’s the interactive part of art and so the creator needs to understand not only how to do this given the form (the ‘grammar’ if you will) but introduce an insight waiting to be discovered.
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Anyone can believe, you just need practice
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I swear, I read that haiku and it sounded like Yoda in my head.
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Good one not it was young shelldigger
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That bad, it was not! 😉
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