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.
Hm. I was a Bible-believing, tongues-speaking UPC Pentecostal. Then I read the Bible cover-to-cover twice, which didn't make me an atheist, just pretty sure the men who wrote the Bible were not inspired by an omniscient and omnibenevolent being. I suppose I became a 'Somethingist' at that point: I didn't believe the Bible was inspired by the Creator, but I still though their was one, largely because I couldn't imagine how the universe and life could come into existence without the intention and action of some powerful entity.
Learning about science acquainted me with plausible alternatives to 'someone must have done it', and learning about logic, especially burden of proof, made me realize that it was reasonable to withhold belief in something until the people proposing that thing support it existing to a point that it is not more reasonable to not believe. In the nearly 20 years since, I have not been presented with evidence or argument that is not fatally flawed, so my atheism remains.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
