(April 10, 2014 at 3:20 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Now that you've been duped into opening this thread, you might as well help us with our little survey to find out your opinion of what atheism is all about.
Thanks for your time.
Love,
Me
Lets put this title question in proper context.
There is a past, present and future to be considered.
As far as the past and present, everything that humans have claimed points to humans making god/s up, not an actual god existing. Secondly, the only place science observes cognition is in biological evolution. Thought, is like speed, it is not an actual thing, but a abstract description of a material process in motion. Like a car speeding. No car, no speed to observe. No physical brain, no thoughts to be had. "We" are our brains in motion. When our brains die, we die.
As far as the future is concerned, and strictly semantically in word only, at least for me "technically" we can't know what future evidence might uncover.
So I currently flat out am an atheist about all past and present claims because there is no scientific evidence for a non material being and not worth considering. I am only "technically" agnostic about the future, although I find the likelihood of a god existing highly improbable and science is on top of that saying a god is not needed anyway.
If one can accept that an ocean god named Poseidon is not needed to cause a Hurricane, and a sky god named Thor is not needed to make lightening, I see no reason that life or the universe would need a cognition for those things to occur either.
Stephen Hawkins "A god is not required".
