RE: Trying to understand evolution
July 28, 2014 at 1:53 am
(This post was last modified: July 28, 2014 at 1:59 am by Jenny A.)
(July 27, 2014 at 10:26 pm)JDepps Wrote: I was raised in a Christian home. I believed in God untl I was around 15-16 years old. And even than, after I strayed away, deep down I believed God existed. I'm 25 now. I'm just now finally accepting and admitted there is no God. Or I should say don't believe there is a God. It's ignorant to say there is or isnt a God. Noone truly knows. But I've been through alot the past 10 years. And I tried. I gave it my all. I read the Bible inside and out. I prayed everyday and put my heart in it. The past 2 years I became extremely full of hate and anger because even though I said I didn't believe deep down I did. And even now after no longer believing I still have resentment towards Christianity.
Well, you are an atheist now. Lacking a belief in god is the definition of atheism. The thing is, it isn't a philosophy. It's just a lack of belief in god.
There's no real need to go on and believe something else. I don't know a lot of things. I don't know if there are other universes. I don't know where the material came from that exploded in the big bang, though it seems clear there was a big bang. I don't know how life got started, though obviously it did because here it all is. It obviously evolved and I'm pretty sure that natural selection had a big part in it. But if evolution was disproved tomorrow, there'd still be no evidence of god.
And you what? I still have a good meaningful life not knowing. "I don't know" is often the best and the wisest answer.
[I see a couple people beat me to The Greatest Show on Earth.]
Quote:I never gave an honest effort into believing anything other than God but I'm that point now where I'm 100% open and willing to the other possibilities, mainly Evolution.
Don't go looking for belief if by belief you mean faith. Read a little. If evolution makes sense, believe it. Richard Dawkins The Greatest Show on Earth is a good place to start. If you don't mind long winded Victorian prose, Darwin's The Origin of the Species, is actually very clear. There's a reason he convinced so many scientists of his day. If you finish reading and you're still not convinced I'll disagree with you. But, it won't be proof of god. It will just mean you still don't know. And I don't know will still be a pretty good answer.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
