Why I am an atheist
This morning, while looking at a stack of Dawkins and Gould books (a wonderful gift from my wife Kelly), I thought of the question I’ve been asked so many times: Why am I an atheist?. My pithy answer is usually “Because there is no God, duh!” which naturally makes people ask me “How do you know there is no God?”. I don’t have as pithy an answer for that, because really, there is reason for me to prove there is no God. It’s up to the religious to prove there is a God. We all know you don’t prove negatives.
However, that is never a satisfactory answer to anyone questioning my lack of faith. So after some thought I’ve concluded that the best response is simply this: Every god worshiped by human beings is a god of a religion borne out of ignorance of the natural world. With ignorance as the basis for religion, the whole “is there a god question” becomes a silly one. For if you are of a people unable to explain how thunder makes a sound, what gives you an infection, or where the Earth is in the Milky way, I see no reason to accept your “answer” of how the universe was created. You’re just not qualified.
January 10th, 2007 at 3:19 pm
There must be a God if you were able to pass off a mish mash of old junk as a christmas present to your wfe.
BAHAHHHHHHH
January 13th, 2007 at 12:49 am
Proof? What sort of proof would convince you of a supreme being that we may not have language or intelligence to explain?
Unfortunately belief take a leap of faith. Hell, we don’t even know what time is yet we measure it.
When your dog licks your face or wants to love you for no reason you are getting a tiny glimpse of God.
When you have that preminition you are being made privy to a tiny piece of the mind of God.
You Shane Patrick Brady are an electron in search of an orbit. You are an idea from the mind of God. The mind of God is an electromagnetic computer and you are one of its infinite programs that begins and ends but the end is a biginning because time is non linear.
The fact that we have right from wrong and morality with or without religion is one small proof of God that you may want to consider.
Could your brain even concieve the creator of the universe. Was the big bang just a fluke to you?
Is life from the ameoba on up to humans and beyond just a random event? Is the rapid evolution of intelligence both human and artificial just another fluke?
AND…what about that secret toasted in sugar frosting on Frosted Flakes?
January 14th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
Hi Chris