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Do you contend then that there are universal absolutes within your atheistic worldview?...I am confused, you said my claims were false above, yet now you claim that the laws of morality and the laws of logic are not absolute. Again, what is absolute then in your mind?
I do not know whether there are universal absolutes withing my atheistic world view; you have not yet defined the term "universal absolute". Until you do so, the term is meaningless, and any statement containing it is empty. This isn't meant to be an insult - just that your reasoning is rather sloppy. Part of this is that you are using terms that you think that you understand, but the rest of us don't. And it is often the case that when you try to define what you mean you find out that you don't really understand it like you thought you did (this has happened to me on numerous occasions).
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I am not contending that the laws of logic as defined by men are absolute, but that there exists within the reality of our world, a set of laws of logic, seen and used by man that reflect the nature and character of God.
Sounds like medievel metaphysics to me. You seem to be saying that the formal systems of logic defined by humans may be an imperfect model of some absolute laws of logic that exists in the mind of God, or something like that. Seems like a Platonic notion of some sort. There is no evidence that there is some sort of absolute laws of logic that exist to be discovered by humans.
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you claim that the laws of morality and the laws of logic are not absolute.
The "laws of morality" depend on the context of culture. There are no absolutes. The "laws of logic" are an artificial contruction (admittedly, as a mathematician, a useful invention) that is used to aid the reasoning ability of the human mind, which appears to work in a holistic manner unlike the linear thinking in formal logic.
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Demonstrate to me using inductive or deductive reasoning, how the atheist universe can account for absolute truths, logic or morality as two of the many I claim to exist.
There is no absolute morality, so I have nothing to prove - it is for you to prove the positive assertian. There is no absolute logic; logic is a human invention. There may or may not be universal truths - you have not yet defined this term.
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How can you say there is no universal standard of right and wrong while our intuitive nature says there is.
Unfortunately, that everyone's intuitive nature seems to give a different standard of morality would seem to contradict a universal standard. There simply is no universal standard of right or wrong. Like beauty, morality is in the eye of the beholder. But I may be wrong - you have not yet defined what you mean by universal.
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I am simply suggesting that if one examines these concepts with more thought than what is typically exerted, one would see that the philisophical and logical implications of atheism, in context with the observed realities of this world make for an unintelligable system of thought.
You are indeed suggesting, but not demonstrating. I do not find atheism to be unintelligible at all - if you can't understand it then that is your problem. I suggest you ask people to explain it to you before you go into a ill-defined, confused tirade about how illogical it all is.
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