Environment:
1. What is the predominate belief of your family and friends?
Family is Lutheran, Dad's side is Catholic. Don't know the beliefs of too many acquaintances
2. What is your general location? (If U.S. please use northwest, northeast, etc.)
Midwest (Chicagoland area)
3. Have you changed your beliefs in the past?
I slowly stopped believing in God, and Bertrand Russell destroyed the last vestiges of my faith by the age of 15.
4. What is your highest level of education?
Currently between colleges. Recently finished a third year of community college that I took just because.
Cosmology/Physics:
5. Many people have argued that the “big bang” implies a finite universe. Some people (myself included) believe that a finite universe tends to have more theistic leanings. How would you respond to this?
I will leave this question to people who actually know much about physics.
6. If you have not already answered above- do you believe in a finite or eternal universe?
Finite probably. I doubt I'll be able to live long enough to verify it.
7. How would you respond to the fine tuning argument?
If you mean that even God is supposed to be beholden to certain laws so much that he had to fine-tune the universe, it really seems to undermine his own omnipotence.
Biology:
8. Do you believe in IDT (Intelligent Design Theory), TOE (Theory of Evolution), or other? (Seems like a weird question but there are some atheists that believe that we were designed by aliens)
The theory of evolution is the most plausible explanation for the diversity of life on this planet.
9. Based on the question above, what would you say are the general points that back up your belief in this?
Holy Hell, go to talkorigins.org to see just a sampling of the most compelling points.
10. How does a belief in [response above] relate to an atheist/agnostic belief?
I admit that evolution could very well be how God maintains life on Earth (Granted, there's hardly any evidence that it is how it happens). I don't really see it as an alternative to God doing it at all.
Other:
10. Do you believe that morals are relative/preference? Please Explain
Well, ultimately, I believe that we build our moral systems based around our own personal preferences. Of course, some personal preferences tend to be more valid than others (especially when they deal with self-preservation.)
11. Is your belief partly due to something that you may not be able to explain to others?
That depends on whether you think "not enough evidence" is beyond your comprehension. I hope it's not.
1. What is the predominate belief of your family and friends?
Family is Lutheran, Dad's side is Catholic. Don't know the beliefs of too many acquaintances
2. What is your general location? (If U.S. please use northwest, northeast, etc.)
Midwest (Chicagoland area)
3. Have you changed your beliefs in the past?
I slowly stopped believing in God, and Bertrand Russell destroyed the last vestiges of my faith by the age of 15.
4. What is your highest level of education?
Currently between colleges. Recently finished a third year of community college that I took just because.
Cosmology/Physics:
5. Many people have argued that the “big bang” implies a finite universe. Some people (myself included) believe that a finite universe tends to have more theistic leanings. How would you respond to this?
I will leave this question to people who actually know much about physics.
6. If you have not already answered above- do you believe in a finite or eternal universe?
Finite probably. I doubt I'll be able to live long enough to verify it.
7. How would you respond to the fine tuning argument?
If you mean that even God is supposed to be beholden to certain laws so much that he had to fine-tune the universe, it really seems to undermine his own omnipotence.
Biology:
8. Do you believe in IDT (Intelligent Design Theory), TOE (Theory of Evolution), or other? (Seems like a weird question but there are some atheists that believe that we were designed by aliens)
The theory of evolution is the most plausible explanation for the diversity of life on this planet.
9. Based on the question above, what would you say are the general points that back up your belief in this?
Holy Hell, go to talkorigins.org to see just a sampling of the most compelling points.
10. How does a belief in [response above] relate to an atheist/agnostic belief?
I admit that evolution could very well be how God maintains life on Earth (Granted, there's hardly any evidence that it is how it happens). I don't really see it as an alternative to God doing it at all.
Other:
10. Do you believe that morals are relative/preference? Please Explain
Well, ultimately, I believe that we build our moral systems based around our own personal preferences. Of course, some personal preferences tend to be more valid than others (especially when they deal with self-preservation.)
11. Is your belief partly due to something that you may not be able to explain to others?
That depends on whether you think "not enough evidence" is beyond your comprehension. I hope it's not.
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.
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I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
