Why are atheist...atheist?

[Alastor]

The theory of the "big bang" does not address what may have happened before the "big bang". In fact, many proponents have stated in no uncertain terms, that there is no reason to believe that the laws of physics would have been similar prior to this event, that we are currently at a loss as to explaining the events prior to the big bang, if such a thing did occur, due to the nature of the thing itself. Emphasis being on the currently.

The idea that the big bang states that something came from nothing is a common straw man of theists, particularly christian theists. Further, our lack of knowledge in this regard does not default to the position that "goddidit", a position which you continue to assume regardless.

This point does not invalidate my conclusion. Knowing the laws of physics before the big bang is not necessary. I only need to know that the pre-big bang universe clearly had some mechanical bias toward the post-big bang universe. Either way, the universe still has an incredibly specific bias and therefore, my conclusion still stands.

Everything in the universe breaks down into protons, neutrons, and electrons, they have always existed. There was no big bang, there was no point of creation. All of the mass, energy included is eternal.

Then my conclusion still stands. Even if one is willing to throw out the big bang theory, then it still stands that the universe must have always had an incredibly specific bias toward the rules it now operates by.

"I say [god] probably exist because the contrary is not sufficiently acceptable to my beliefs."

Now we're getting to the root of your problem.

And ours, as a result of yours.

Lol, this is not the root of the problem, your arrogance is. I've stated multiple times that this thread has nothing to do with my personal beliefs about God. I merely presented them in my first post because I thought it would be fair for everyone to know where I was coming from; also, why I presented the definition of atheist I was basing the question on. Later, I only began elaborating on my beliefs because they had come into question, which is fine; I'm willing to discuss my reason for believing in a God for anyone who may be interested in it. However, I have never stated or told anyone that they should believe in a God for same reason I do. That was always irrelevant. I have always stated that I choose to believe in God based the conclusion I've stated earlier. This is not proof, nor would I tell anyone they should also choose to believe in a God for this reason. It is really to each his own as far as why they may choose to believe in a God or not. For me it is simply a statistical reason. For some people this is enough to believe that God probably does exist. For others it is not, and i can't really blame them, and I don't.

The purpose of this thread has always been to tell me how a strong atheist does not make foolish assumptions about God in the way a religious person would. If you had actually read my post, before making accusations about me, you'd have known that.

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Alastor. To the post of mine that you quoted, it was aimed at frodo, not you. So after you said I haven't read thread. I say, you clearly haven't followed it.

My apologies, I ignored frodo's post because they were not really relevant to my original question.