(March 18, 2015 at 7:04 pm)Jenny A Wrote: I like to read popular science, but I know very little. I'm not a trained biologist, physicist, astronomer, etc. I read a lot of history, but I'm no recognized expert in any particular time period. I suspect that this describes many atheists and that there are many atheists who read even less.
What interests me is why theists think that knowing the origins of the universe, life, or humans matters to the question of whether there is a god. Why is it that anyone would think that we don't know necessarily means there is a god?
I'm not exactly happy with "I don't know." But I'm not so uncomfortable with it, that I have to make up and answer to feel better.
I think as a species, we NEED to know. We have this overwhelming curiosity about the universe around us and not knowing is something that bothers a lot of people. I don't have any problems with admitting that I don't have an answer for some things but I do want to find one.
