Critical thinker, skeptical about atheism.

[Esquilax]

I have a nagging skepticism about atheism since it leaves unexplained the most basic questions of our existence and the existence of all things.

Does it matter to you if the answers to those questions are correct? Or is it just super important to have an answer, any answer, no matter what?

Q- Where does the Universe come from?
Dogmatic atheist- We don't know

We don't know. What's so dogmatic about acknowledging that?

You understand that the moment we find out the answer, we'll stop answering that we don't know, right? That's, you know, the opposite of dogmatism.

Q Why are we here?
Dogmatic atheist- We don't know

Actually, we do know that one, so your concept of atheism is simply factually wrong. We're here because we evolved as a species, from other organisms, over time.

Q Is there any meaning to life?
Dogmatic atheist- We don't know but you can just make up an imaginary meaning in your brain (thus living a delusion)

Are all mental constructs delusions? Language is a mental construct, it's something made up. So are numbers, and time demarcations, and thought exercises. Are all those things delusions too? Are we all delusionally dreaming of numbers to quantify things?

Or can we all just acknowledge that there are more categories of things in our brains than delusions?

Q Is there good and evil?
Dogmatic atheist (Dawkins)- There is no good and evil, we all dance to the tune of our DNA

And Dawkins isn't atheism. I'm an atheist who happens to believe in good and evil as acts but not attributes attached to individuals.

Every question you ask, in your quest to show atheism's unsatisfactory dogmatism, just shows how little you understand of what you're talking about.

Why then do we put "evil" people in jails? ("evil" is a religious word)
A truly honest Dogmatic atheist- We don't know

Firstly, you don't get to claim ownership over words. Second, you don't get to poison the well by defining what a truly honest answer to this question is.

Now that that's out of the way, we put people in jail in part as atonement for the harm they have caused their community, and in part to rehabilitate them out of committing similar acts in future, either through education, or the deterrent of further punishment. So, yet another thing we do know, if one gives it a little thought.

There are so many questions Ive asked atheists over the years, and their answers just seem illogical, and leave me even more skeptical about atheism.

Thoughts?

So, because atheism is intellectually honest enough to admit when we don't know something, and you find the idea of not knowing unsatisfying, therefore atheism can't be true?

It's amazing: you're talking about honest admissions of ignorance, but you've made one of the biggest arguments from ignorance yourself that I've ever seen.