Environment:
1. What is the predominate belief of your family and friends?
Family- Theist (Christian- Catholic, Born again)
Friends- Atheist/Agnostic mostly (immediate friends) Catholic, Protestant.
2. What is your general location? (If U.S. please use northwest, northeast, etc.)
West of Ireland.
3. Have you changed your beliefs in the past?
Brought up Christian, became an atheist at 18.
4. What is your highest level of education?
Science Undergrad at the minute.
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?
Not sure, trying to bend my mind around M-theory just at the moment.
7. How would you respond to the fine tuning argument?
I'd say we evolved to be fine tuned to our universe, or else we wouldn't be here to argue about it and not the other way around.
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)
Theory of Evolution.
9. Based on the question above, what would you say are the general points that back up your belief in this?
The large body of evidence it explains in the simplest manner possible. Ockham's Razor.
10. How does a belief in [response above] relate to an atheist/agnostic belief?
It removes one of religions main attractions, explaining where we come from.
Other:
10. Do you believe that morals are relative/preference?
They are relative, maybe they ought to be objective. Perhaps someday we'll all agree, though probably not.
11. Is your belief partly due to something that you may not be able to explain to others?
No, anything I believe to be true is based on evidence and reason.
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"Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds."
Einstein
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy. They told me I didn't understand the assignment. I told them they didn't understand life.
- John Lennon
