DNA Proves Existence of a Designer

[Everena]

I welcome your ideas and thoughts. I am only voicing my own opinion based on what I've experienced with atheists through the years. I used to think that some very bad people being part of religions had turned people away from God. Later I considered that perhaps the suffering in the world had turned people away from God. The more time I spent discussing God with the atheists I know personally and with the atheists I have debated with online, the more I realized something very different. Atheism is almost a personality type.

Nah. Maybe with some. But not everybody.

I am a skeptic. I tend to question things which are not founded on solid evidence. That is the beginning, middle, and end of my atheism. As a human being, I have a problem with religion. But as an atheist, I have a problem with unfounded claims.

People's personal experiences are not a good foundation for believing in something. Let's consider the Hitler Youth. A lot of kids got involved in the Hitler Youth, and (if you read about people's memories about such things) you will see it was an intensely positive experience for a great many of them. All it really was was "German Boy Scouts" with a swastika slapped on it for advertising purposes. The problem is this: when they weren't camping, singing songs, and paying special attention to the member's positive development, the Hitler Youth fed the youngsters propaganda about Jews and other enemies of the Nazi party.

For you to argue that your positive experience with religion signifies that that religious claims are objectively true is to argue that some kid's experience with the Hitler Youth makes the correspondent claims of THAT organization true. It doesn't.

PS: I hope you realize that I'm not equating believers with Nazis. I'm simply picking an organization whose claims are demonstrably false in order to make a point about how positive experience ought not influence belief.

I have not just had positive experiences. I have had incredible and undeniable.spiritual experiences (some mutual/shared experiences) and signs that have proven God to me beyond any and all doubt.