When, Where, How and Why did you become Atheist?

[abaris]

Combine exposure like that to religion with an emphasis on empirical evidence and there's a good chance you're going to get an atheist.

Needless to say, school had a very strong influence on my upbringing. I never ever doubted biology and the age of the world and neither did my parents. They took me to natural history museums when I was little and my father always used to point out the age of the dinosaur skeletons displayed there. Even before I could grasp the concept of millions of years, I got that they were very old. But this also was the age of the Flintstones on tv. So things might have been a little murky.