[split]Atheism is based of ignorance.

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With all this "I don't know" approach I am not sure we will ever get anywhere.

Why am I an atheist?

Well I like to think of myself as a largely logical sort of fellow so here's my thought process:

Something started the universe:

Possibly nothingness started it or it started on its own but lets just say something did:

Did it start it deliberately or was in a accident? How can we know?
Did it have to have intelligence? Could it have been caused by another natural phenomenon? Like the collapse of a previous universe (assuming time applies outside this universe in the same way as it does in it). If time behaves differently this universe could have been started by its own ultimate collapse for all I know?

So suppose it was the deliberate act of a creator God - or a committee of gods perhaps (we'll use the singular from now on - just for ease):

Could have been an act of whimsy?
Could be a deist hands-off sort of God?

Now we know that it all started 13.72 billion years ago.

Apparently just under 70% of the universe is Dark matter.
Just under 30% is Dark energy.

The remainder is everything we can see - stars, planets, galaxies, pulsars - the lot. About 1% of the total.

Of that 1%:

We know (in the known universe) that there are about 100 billion galaxies containing some 10^23 stars.

We know that on the outer arm, of an outer arm, of an utterly average galaxy there is a planet called earth that was "borne" some 4.5 billion years ago.

Now on that planet life started about 4 billion years ago.

For 3.5 billion years - single celled life only.
About 500 million years ago - the Cambrian explosion - mutli-cellular life

....5 great extinction events......> mammals (60 million years ago).

.....200,000 years ago -> Man.

Now, is it reasonable to assume there's a god, your god, who wants us to worship him, needs us to tell him how wonderful he is, watches what we do and keeps a log, rewards good behaviour and punishes bad behaviour......

Gotta go with no. Frankly I'm on the no side for the deist God too.

Just doesn't seem to be required. No observation yet made needs a God to explain it.

There is simply no reason I can see to believe.