Pascal's Wager

[Pete]

I fully understand.

I can't tell you how happy I am to hear that.

Now I'm the kind of person who needs to know not believe. I can't stand not knowing. I don't like guessing and so absalute knowledge is needed to satisfy my needs to understand my surroundings.

I'm the same way.

I did give religion a chance but they failed to entertain my needs for knowledge. Everything about religion is just to simplistic, To simple and lacks allot of data. huge missing gaps. Every time I question those gaps I'm simply told not to question. Which goes against everything that I am. I want to know and to do that IS to question.

I understand and I agree. It is my opinion that God wants me to ask questions because its only that way that I can get past my doubts. Those doubts will always be there. Leaving them ignored and untouched is probably why so many theists don't like to question their faith.

What I've found in reason, logic and science opened my eyes to a new reality. A reality where there is no god, that every religion is just a lie. Nothing supports religious claims but everything supports scientific findings.

Since you're open to science then I recommend that you read
http://www.geocities.com/pmb_phy/philosophy_physics.pdf

Its from an excellant text called "Classical Charged Particles" by Fritz Rorhlich. Its a very difficult text to read so I'm only suggesting that you read chapter one, the chapter on the philosophy of science. It will hopefully clear some misunderstandings that many non-scientists have about science.

This is why I'm an atheist pete. I lust for knowledge, I lust for data and answers not gaps and evasions to my questions. not to be told to not question.

Just because we want to know the truth it doesn't mean that we'll ever get it. Science can't tell us what the truth is. It can only describe the world in which we live. But we'll never know everything. Heck! We'll never know the most imporant things in life. For example; men will never completely understand women.

Pete