(March 23, 2015 at 2:36 pm)Drew_2013 Wrote: This underscores the real problem and why atheism isn't growing in numbers by leaps and bounds. Atheists don't like the belief we owe our existence to a Creator or a supernatural cause but they really have no alternate explanation that isn't itself supernatural so they spend most of their time mocking, ridiculing and bashing theism while having no plausible alternative that accounts for the existence of the universe or why it would produce sentient life.
As I said on the second page if I'm not mistaken. You're talking about the US. Things look very different in Europe if you bothered to inform yourself. Not that I personally give a shit one way or the other. It's my life and I'm not a member of a cult or gathering but simply a person who doesn't believe in any form of sky daddy. I don't need a spiritual crutch to explain things that haven't been explained so far, since I'm not a stone age man looking up at the sun to see god.
Also I notice that you didn't give the fact that humans aren't the only ones with working minds any consideration. Cognitive science has gone far within the last decade. And their finding are certainly much more interesting an awe inspiring than any old book.