Why do Christians constantly ask atheists extremely difficult scientific questions?
Posting a science question in the religion and spirituality section often means the asker does not really want an answer. His goal is to ask a question that he believes proves some scientific knowledge to be wrong, or that science does not yet answer, and make the implicit claim that the only other explanation is a god, and specifically, the same god he happens to believe in. It’s the “god of the gaps” – intellectually bankrupt, since it favors ignorance instead of knowledge, and because of the contained logical fallacy – and it’s done almost exclusively by christians.
I am Roman Catholic, and I generally don’t do that. Maybe others do because they know God exists, and because they think the superficial evidence of God’s existence is so obvious and abundant that anyone who errantly denies the existence of God must have a very sophisticated reason for maintaining such a denial. Maybe some Christians think that since Science requires such precision in both measurement and data analysis, that Science is the thing most likely to lead someone to make a mistake about a basic aspect of the existence of The Universe. To use Science to deny the existence of God would take some pretty hefty measurements and analyses. Maybe some Christians give atheists credit for not being superficial dolts who just flippantly deny all the obvious evidence for the existence of God. Maybe such Christians figure atheists have some sort of carefully thought out reason for denying God’s existence. Christians would figure that anyone making such a mistake would be most inclined to
What’s really interesting is that the R&S Christian community seems perfectly comfortable in asking the Atheist community extremely deep probing difficult scientific questions about the evolution of the universe and of life on Planet Earth However the R&S Christian community gets very uncomfortable and extremely defensive when the Atheist community asks them for similarly detailed explanation about the obvious evolution of God
