The Case for Atheism

[pocaracas]

Pocaras,

The only thing he had to postulate was that the speed of light in vacuum is constant... heck, he arrived at a place where he had a constant there, as all physicists, a constant is called 'c' (sometimes, 'k'). This constant had units of speed (m/s).... and he did start off with Maxwell's equations of electromagnetic waves, so he was dealing with electromagnetic waves, AKA, light.
So it wasn't that much of a leap of faith to say that 'c' was the speed of light.

I'm not sure what point you're trying to serve by downplaying one of the greatest intellectual minds of our time and the insight Einstein had that rocked the core of physics. Some have said that it may have taken 40 years before someone else would have had the same insight.

yeah, like I didn't study the history of physics... -.-'
here, read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of...formations
Einie had the advantage of being the first to realize what Lorentz & friends didn't.

But you propose an explanation for something, with nothing to back it up, but your own "it's the only way that makes sense to me".

Not at all, unlike the atheists in this forum I made a case in favor of atheism from facts.

On the very first page, I (and others) gave you many cases in favor of atheism... wish is the same as "cases against any form of theism...
Not doing it again.

To us, the god hypothesis is one possible explanation for the start of the Universe, but it's not the only one...Until some actual evidence is found, no one can claim that one hypothesis to be the correct one, now can they?

That is apparently the state of atheism today (at least on this board) so pathetically weak and vacuous that even you don't deny God might be the cause of the universe. If as an atheist you don't deny God caused the existence of the universe why should it bother you if theists do believe God caused the universe?

I don't deny it. It's a hypothesis. Just like the FSM, or "invisible pink unicorn did it". They're all equally valid hypothesis...
As an atheist, I don't believe it to be representative of reality.
As a human being, I don't know how the Universe came about, nor do you, nor does anyone!

However, theists tend to claim that some highly complex entity caused the Universe to be. It is that claim that atheists don't buy into, because they are well aware that humanity's collective knowledge pool has not reached that goal yet. Until then, we make no stupid claims, like yours.

Since we don't ascribe to the intellectual numbness of theism, we follow the people who actually study the phenomena in question - cosmology, particle physics. Most of us are not equipped with the tools they have, so we are left to wait for them to come up with the breakthroughs... in the meantime, we like to throw some fish around just to pass the time.

When they have conclusive evidence that proves the existence of some god, we'll then accept it as a valid entity.... until then... well, I've said a bunch of times on this forum... theism's track record is incredibly void when compared with science's explanation of "events previously attributed to god(s)". So I'm not putting any money on that dying horse.