Why I Don't Want To Be An Atheist

[Drich]

Science is a way to assess evidence without letting your preconceived ideas or prejudices get in the way of establishing the facts. Of course you wont like it, preconceived ideas and prejudices are all you have.  

That's crap. Let look at the scientific method.
In step number 3 you are to formulate a hypothesis and step 4 you are develop testable predictions BASED ON YOUR HYPOTHESIS! That my friend is the definition of a self fulfilling prophesy. like it or not the whole of scientific discovery is based on faith/the honor system that your precious 'scientists' do not fudge their findings to support their theories. Which we know to be the case as theories based on the scientific method are always changing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method

All science offers you is a way of outside verification. Meaning a tangible object or physical phenoma can be manipulated or re-verified by this method. The problem? Not all of the universe can be made to fit those two categories. For instance besides God Science can't even be used to explain the complete nature of love.

Or are you so foolish to try and deny love exists even without a scientific explanation?

Science has it limitations, and to use the term science to bridge all the gaps in life is no different than using God to bridge gaps in knowledge.

Science is different because every aspect of science can be supported by facts and evidence.

Not according to the scientific method. Again, Facts are manipulated to fit a theory until they are so overwhelming that a new theory must be formulated. (higgs bosen particle is a good example)

But people who kinda like Batman do not live their life by the way of Bruce Wayne. They do not oppress others on the basis of the laws of DC. Christians and other groups of theists inflict their delusions on others and that's were I get involved. Remember dude you came to an atheist site.

well that's crap too. Clinton said in a several speeches Religious ideologies must be changed:
four years ago,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0J6NTlDu6I

one year ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNvzjBsScPA

This in spite of the first amendment that says government shall make no law concerning the Free practice of religion.

So why did you go to batman when government is seriously threatening to impede on a citizens right to protest and not support someone who their religion tells them not to support? That's right because you can make a point about batman (if you choose to ignore James holems) but can't make a real world connection.

I can confidently say that god is not real due to the complete lack of any evidence to support its existence. I find it sad that in this day and age anyone gives it any credence at all.

Actually you can't unless you defiantly choose to ignore all the evidence people can provide.

Again provide scientific evidence for love, deny it exists Or admit to your hypocrite.

Say it with me "abortions are not killing babies"

Dumb ass Clinton is pushing justices to the supreme court that allows thrid trimester baby killing to happen.

Meaning a baby viable outside the womb, but who has not come to full term can be murdered.

Let me go one more step for you just incase you really are this stupid:
http://clinicquotes.com/late-term-abortion-pictures/

HOW are any of the pictured above NOT BABIES???

How dare any of you call me a monster and not acknowledge those children/babies were slaughtered by 'doctors' on the word of their mothers..

Then Clinton wants to silence anyone who says this is wrong?!?!? WTF is wrong with you people? look at pic 6 and forward and tell me those were a collection of cells. Tell me is someone rip a child from the mother without her consent at this late stage in development that he would not be deemed a murderer! The act and final result is the same. which means life is not defined by stage of development but rather some else's want.

No I do not believe that hell is a thing its a real. This Atheists are secretly afraid of god/hell talk is based on a misunderstanding. I do not believe and have never believed in any of it. I suppose this is because you live in a place where your view is not abnormal. But I live in the UK and religious people are the exception, the few that are around are more or less left to their own delusions.

Then why spend so much time refuting it?

All this time here and you still do not understand what an atheist is.

There is the delusion you want to propagate and then there is reality. Just because I did not use your perfered description of yourself does not mean I can not or did not rightly identify you 'good people.'

Atheism is an answer to a question. "do I believe in god?" "I do not!" stop trying to drag it down to your level. 

and in so saying, one ascribes to certain rules and a system of belief. the close adherence to said rules makes you d-bags a form of religion. Or are you saying I believing in God can be an atheist as well?

So what I get from this is because science does not know everything yet, therefore god.

No, science does not know everything therefore to say it does means you step out on faith, just like I do. So then since we are on equal footing who is to say you are 'right?'

I take a more pragmatic view.

There is a question of how the universe originated. Currently we do not have the tools to discover how it began.

This part is true, but you do not believe it. if so you could not say with any certainty How the universe came into existance.

I don't know means I don't know. Not i don't know but defiantly not this:

The chances of the universe being started by some creature that shares features with the Abrahamic god, zero.

How stupid is that? The same principle that keeps you from making a declaration also prevents you for eliminating anything else.

What Yahweh or whatever people are calling the creater myth these days was was a thing similar to all religions a creation myth. Something to tell the kids about  why we are here. Just so stories if you will. Like how the Girrafe got ites neck.

out of ignorance comes the same retoric that you are trying to assign to those who believe in God.

Not all version of religion share the idea of a creationist God.

Science is the opposite of a faith based narrative.

It is the same. Your faith is in the narritive/hypothsis that ties what you call evidence all together...
Matter of fact your faith has to be greater because that narrative is constantly changing. For example if you read darwins original theory and hold it up side by side to out current model of darwinism you'd only see sparse similarities. So again your faith is one in darwinism (and not one of the other lessor know evolutionary theories or even the seed theories to be true.) and your faith is further shown in that you believe the current inneration of 'darwinism' to be true. and not a previous one..

Given the right tools you can check that it is true.

But again, you can't. Let go to the higgs boson particle. Even with the multi-billion dollar particle accelerator and hundreds of millions more spent in operation we can't even provide true evidence to support the theories projected.. So what do we do? we change the theory to fit what was found. the problem? what was found undermines the whole theory, but unless you spend you whole life doing this crap no one can tell.
again it all comes down to a matter of faith:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/10...33502.html

Like it or not all the brain washing you want to assign to the religious you yourself are vulnerable to. Just in different ways. You are trained and conditioned to unquestionably accept anything labeled 'science.' and you place all your faith in that. Do you not see the similarity? It's the same process, just no God.

So again, you can't check squat. You must have faith that someone under the umbrella of 'science' can. That is the new religion/turn your thinking off and put all of your faith in this basket of belief.

Nothing's changed just the status of God in your mind.

Whenever people have tried to check the religious narrative against facts they have had to move their god somewhere else so that now it has moved to a realm it has been made impossible to check for.
A sign that it does not exist.

Read the artical that came out 1 year after some douche was awared the Nobel prize for finding this supposed particle.

Even the Nobel people are subject to faith, why else would the award a prestigious award to something already established/guess at?

They like you have been conditioned to blindly believe anything labled "science" that has come down the proper channels.

Why? because no one can fact check/verify unless they themselves are of that discipline.

Now here is the scarry thing small thinker... Who 'owns' those scientists? who pays those fact checkers?
You seriously don't think that scientists do all that they do for free do you? you don't think countries just build multi billion dollar supercoliders because they have nothing better do with the money???

Why do you think the scientists at cern claim to find the higgs boson when in fact they did not? Because the people paying the bills threatened to shut them down so they told them what they wanted to hear and it took over a year before they were exposed. Even won a nobel prize. because again all of us have to take it on FAITH that what 'science' is telling us is indeed true.

So again all things being equal (you like me believe what we believe concerning the nature of the universe is faith based) then who are you to say you are right and I am wrong? That my faith based friend take a seriously strong brand of self righteousness.
 

You make me sad Drich. A twenty first century man with the scientific literacy of a Neanderthal.

will your hypocrisy never be silenced?

"Deny the faith one must have in science" You are really a good example of anti intellectualism and why the US is doomed.

Unlike the england/UK who 'hasn't' been in declined since the end of the revolutionary war? Once a proud world dominating nation with colonies all over the world, who's now biggest contribution is providing actors for the walking dead series on AMC who sport passable American accents.

Such a short sentence with so much wrong with it. By unpopular theories I take it mean areas where the facts do not conform with your prejudices. I am thinking probably intelligent design. But who knows with Drich.

sorry sport, but no. re read my last couple of paragraphs if you want something to talk about.

People who look for faith normally find a faith of one sort or another. My wife for example looked for faith, rejected Christianity and is a spiritualist. She asked soght and knocked and the spirits answered apparently.

Ah, no. She like the rest of you ask sought and knocked on a door/religion of your own creation.

The west was hugely influenced by Christianity. It was why it had such a long dark age. Only now is the damage inflicted by the centuries of believing a lie coming to an end.

pleeze bruh.
can't you guys get together and select a narritive and stick with it? you seem to be stuck with the old "people are running out of churches in droves and we are comming to a new age." (which has been refuted by point out that yes small churches are closing but mega churches are taking their places/where do you think those members who fill a 15,000 seat church 3 times on Sunday come from?)

So what your more progressive brethren are now arguing is that the west was never influenced by religion. that all of this recent influence only happened in the last few decades, and now we are shifting back.

Which has dumbest thing I've ever heard, because all one need do is to do some fact checking.. But I also understand how 'you good people' assimilate knowledge without question if it is packaged correctly.

Stick with your old crapped out argument if you like, but know it is simply a narrative that small minded people employ to feel good about the evil things they do. Rather to feel justified in the selection of pop morality over God.