1. What is the predominate belief of your family and friends?
Christian family, atheist friends.
2. What is your general location? (If U.S. please use northwest, northeast, etc.)
Northern Midwest of the U.S.
3. Have you changed your beliefs in the past?
After suffering through some trauma I became a deist for a few years in my twenties.
4. What is your highest level of education?
Just short of a two year Associates Degree.
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 say that if the universe was infinite you would also claim that it supports the theistic view.
6. If you have not already answered above- do you believe in a finite or eternal universe?
I do not speculate on this.
7. How would you respond to the fine tuning argument?
I'm not a physicist but if you mean the argument that the universe could only exist with certain parameters and the existence of these parameters implies design, then I say the universe evolved around the parameters that were given and could have done so under different ones.
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)
Evolution.
9. Based on the question above, what would you say are the general points that back up your belief in this?
The fossil record.
10. How does a belief in [response above] relate to an atheist/agnostic belief?
The two are mutually exclusive.
11. Do you believe that morals are relative/preference? Please Explain
Relative to culture and other factors.
12. Is your belief partly due to something that you may not be able to explain to others?
My reasons for lack of belief are all explainable.
Christian family, atheist friends.
2. What is your general location? (If U.S. please use northwest, northeast, etc.)
Northern Midwest of the U.S.
3. Have you changed your beliefs in the past?
After suffering through some trauma I became a deist for a few years in my twenties.
4. What is your highest level of education?
Just short of a two year Associates Degree.
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 say that if the universe was infinite you would also claim that it supports the theistic view.
6. If you have not already answered above- do you believe in a finite or eternal universe?
I do not speculate on this.
7. How would you respond to the fine tuning argument?
I'm not a physicist but if you mean the argument that the universe could only exist with certain parameters and the existence of these parameters implies design, then I say the universe evolved around the parameters that were given and could have done so under different ones.
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)
Evolution.
9. Based on the question above, what would you say are the general points that back up your belief in this?
The fossil record.
10. How does a belief in [response above] relate to an atheist/agnostic belief?
The two are mutually exclusive.
11. Do you believe that morals are relative/preference? Please Explain
Relative to culture and other factors.
12. Is your belief partly due to something that you may not be able to explain to others?
My reasons for lack of belief are all explainable.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
