What Does Being An Atheist Actually Entail? (Theism in mind)

[Mudhammam]

I think it should be pointed out (though it shouldn't really have to be) that science has allowed us to understand a lot more about the origins of the universe than people who lived even a hundred years ago, much less in the times when mythologists were writing what would become the Abrahamic faiths of today, could have imagined. That's why faiths like Christianity now seem so incredibly adolescent and outdated. Who ever could have thought that space and time were dimensions that are fundamentally tied up in relative velocities of motion? Who ever thought of space as a landscape that is curved by matter? Jenny may very well be right that humanity may never come to grips with the most difficult questions our minds desire to know, and more than likely not within our own lifetimes, but the fact that we can even have that discussion in a serious manner is not a knock against us, if anything it's a testament to human ingenuity and how far our inquires have brought us, as they will continue to do.