20 questions atheists struggle to answer

This is a compiled list that Peter Saunders has put together from back-and-forth Twitter conversations (mostly with atheists) earlier this week. He says he did not post these claiming atheists do not have an answer to these questions, but that there have not been any decent responses to them in the past 40yrs:

  1. What caused the universe to exist?
  2. What explains the fine tuning of the universe?
  3. Why is the universe rational?
  4. How did DNA and amino acids arise?
  5. Where did the genetic code come from?
  6. How do irreducibly complex enzyme chains evolve?
  7. How do we account for the origin of 116 distinct language families?
  8. Why did cities suddenly appear all over the world between 3,000 and 1,000BC?
  9. How is independent thought possible in a world ruled by chance and necessity?
  10. How do we account for self-awareness?
  11. How is free will possible in a material universe?
  12. How do we account for conscience?
  13. On what basis can we make moral judgements?
  14. Why does suffering matter?
  15. Why do human beings matter?
  16. Why care about justice?
  17. How do we account for the almost universal belief in the supernatural?
  18. How do we know the supernatural does not exist?
  19. How can we know if there is conscious existence after death?
  20. What accounts for the empty tomb, resurrection appearances and growth of the church?

Source: pjsaunders.blogspot.co.uk

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  1. mikewinslade answered: There is some serious intellectual dishonesty here, but hey, if it make you feel better about your delusions, get comfy
  2. callumjameshackett answered: These aren’t question for atheists, they’re questions for scientists, and there are no religious answers to be found.
  3. tuggysaurusrex answered: wow has the person who wrote this even been to school? i feel sorry for his or her ignorance towards these easy questions.
  4. indeedyreedy reblogged this from i---i
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    blog entry I wrote in response...God’s Advocate’s list...“20...
  8. deconversionmovement reblogged this from gods-advocate and added:
    The empty tomb and the resurrection appearances are found in unreliable sources, namely the Gospels. By the way, I can...
  9. mumblemoose answered: But replace “universe” with “God” in Q1 and theist are just as stuck, no? More so given the answer to the rest is “God”.
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  12. rogueatheist reblogged this from atheist-me and added:
    Yet another believer (not the tumblr link but...blog) asking irrelevant questions in an...
  13. cleaningitup answered: at least atheists are driven to answer such questions instead of believing fairy tales <3
  14. potentpoison answered: huge assumptions are made in some questions. anyway, atheists’ lack of an answer is more intellectually honest than false theistic ones
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  17. allcowsgomoo answered: How about this:

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