RE: What does an atheist...
December 13, 2009 at 7:19 am
(This post was last modified: December 13, 2009 at 7:22 am by tackattack.)
(December 13, 2009 at 6:18 am)Purple Rabbit Wrote:Tiberius Wrote:It is easier for me to come to terms with a God who hates his creation (or simply doesn't care / doesn't see humanity as anything special)...Like a Purple Rabbit? Kneel you fool...
(December 13, 2009 at 3:51 am)tackattack Wrote: I'll add this unrelated tid bit. The proof I have in my Life are a series or random occurences outside of my control which lead to defining moments in my life. Being in the wrong place with a fix-a-flat at teh right time, finding a $20 and not 1 hour later taking 3 homeless to dinner. Theese are simple examples and theres a lot more and some are much more complex.What about the most simple explanation around: shit happens!
If these little incidents add up in your head to a god, then why don't you do some summation on things like diseases, natural disaster, famine or even the event of missing toilet paper when you're taking a dump?
Because logically there is only so much coincidence that can be stacked upon another before you question is there a bigger design and who designed it. It goes back to the level of proof arguement. There's so much of my "experience" that doesn't come out in a falsifiable fashion, yet was real and perceptable to me. I thought science or evolution could explain away my belief, but that didn't explain it well enough for me. It breaks believability, in my life, that 80% of events in my life where I had just the right tool, reference or talent to suit a need that bettered someone else were randomness. It doesn't make sense to me statistically. Sure if it was closer to 50% or less I could see a need to reevaluate or skepticise, but that's not my case. I think we're just going to have to agree to disagree and have a beer.
What would you like me to summize on? Disease ... just another organism on this earth that evolves physically similar to us without social structure. We cease to get stronger and develop it continues to get stronger. Science helps us catch up when we fall behind. Do I really need to summize where natural disasters come from? Missing toilet paper? Perhaps you should have filled it before you sat.
