I've spent the day reading Richard Dawkin's The God Delusion and I got to page 146 but at that point I couldn't take it anymore. Despite this apparently being an easy to read explination of the case for Atheism, all of this scientific talk of the origin of the universe just blows my mind too much, I was sweating just trying to take in all this knowledge. But I don't get it. I'm too dumb scientifically to try and comprehend what scientists truly believe to be the case against God. I can understand evolution, mutations gradually progressing through means of natural selection to create new species better equipped to deal with it's environment. I understand how it's not that the earth is perfect for us, but that we evolved to adapt to the universe. Dawkin's Mount Improbable was a very effective way of demonstrating how such complex organisms can gradually progress, instead of it all being one large leap from having no purpose to being fully functional. We did not become this complex all of sudden, it was through millions of years of mutations that benefit our survival becoming natural selected by the advantage they give us to be passed down from generation to generation. I might not be explaining it that coherently, but it all make sense to me.
But this talk of how the universe started, and all this talk involving chemistry and single atoms are beyond me. I still cannot comprehend how the whole universe began. I still beg to ask the question "How did it all begin? How did nothing create everything?"
I understand that atheism is probably the most logical position, but I do not have the capacity to aqquire all of this knowledge needed. I am incredibly overwhelmed by all of this new knowledge I cannot comprehend.
This is a tangent, but I'm so confused right now, it's all too much. I feel like I'm an idiot, and that's I'm too dumb to be an atheist.
But this talk of how the universe started, and all this talk involving chemistry and single atoms are beyond me. I still cannot comprehend how the whole universe began. I still beg to ask the question "How did it all begin? How did nothing create everything?"
I understand that atheism is probably the most logical position, but I do not have the capacity to aqquire all of this knowledge needed. I am incredibly overwhelmed by all of this new knowledge I cannot comprehend.
This is a tangent, but I'm so confused right now, it's all too much. I feel like I'm an idiot, and that's I'm too dumb to be an atheist.
