(December 2, 2015 at 10:13 pm)marko Wrote: I'm sure this has been covered plenty, but I'm a newby. ( But not an athiest basher)
What drives one to Atheism, or perhaps evolution. Is it that one rejects God, then finds comfort in something else, or do you look at evolution and determine it to be closer to the truth?
Or, are there athiests who also reject evolution, and just don't know what to make of life.
Atheism is simply the position that one is not convinced that a god or gods exist. It is a response to a claim, not a claim itself.
Atheism is the result of correctly applying skepticism to the claim that a god exists.
There is no doctrine, no dogma, atheism is not even a worldview.
As far as evolution goes, it is supported by mountains of ever increasing evidence. Not to mention, that many theists, including Christians, fully accept evolution as being the best explanation for the diversity of life.
Evolution has very little to do with my atheism. I accepted evolution when I was still a theist.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
