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After reading Friendly Atheist’s blog post about the “Questions for God” proposed over at Ethical Atheist, I went to go have a read of them. Quite a few of the questions I thought were a bit harsh, and were either presented in a very sarcastic manner, or were extremely stupid. For example:

Do you know how to use email?  Surely you do, right?  Why haven’t you written us yet with all the answers?

and

Why do men and women have the same number of ribs if you stole one from Adam to make Eve?

The first question is just plainly meant as a joke, and the second ignores the biological fact that if a parent loses a limb or bone, the child won’t be affected. In fact, a believer actually pointed this out the the author of the question in their answer.

I think that although the idea of asking questions to God, and allowing his followers to answer is a great idea, because it allows understanding of theist thinking in ways atheists cannot understand. Some of the answers produced are actually quite rational, and only rely on partial support from the supernatural to work. However, whilst the idea itself is good, the Ethical Atheist version of the questions has taken the entire thing as a joke, which lessens the importance of the whole project, and probably accounts for the reason why most of the questions have been unanswered.

I am in full support of allowing believers to speak their minds and try and persuade me into another way of thinking, so I propose we start a new list of questions which adhere to a few rules (judged by the community).

I have listed a short summary of the project idea and the rules on the new forums: Questions for God

If you want to take part either by asking a question or suggesting ways to implement the rules (even suggesting new criteria for rules) please sign up at the forums and reply to the thread.

Once a good number of questions have been answered, I will publish the list on this website, and update it with answers sent in.