I am an Atheist because I choose to be what each person believes is there own damn business(no offence ment). I do not feel that there is a great plan for each of us as we do have free will. free will is an illusion if there is a great being governing all that we do, say and feel and if we are to be judged on it!!
I just can't feel comfortable with the whole christian religion forceing there beliefs on the rest of the world.
Well, I understand that many people have run across the typical hypocritical supposed christian's.
but, if they were indeed real christians they would not act hypocritical.
white eagle, The fact that other planets are being showered with space debri, makes me feel even more blessed not lucky.
Yeah so scientists say that the sun will implode and kill us all, and they are probably right. However I dont see that as a reason to disbelieve.
we will destroy the earth way before that happens anyway
Gregory, its sounds as though you read the new testament.
did you see that god changed his way with dealing with us unruly humans and introduce a new covenant through his son Jesus Christ.
How could anyone be angry with a God that gives his son to die for us undeserving people.
we didnt ask to be created but we were, and as much as we lie we are not and will never be in control in this life.
There is nothing negative thats come from the life of Jesus besides the false supposed followers of him.
I don't know abut the rest of you, but I am an atheist because too much is taken forgranted over matters of religion.Wars are started and millions of innocent people are killed because they believe in this so called God.Percfect example-WWII.So, I choose to believe in nothing.Besides, if there truly was a god, why would he allow things like that to happen?Also I dont agree with alot of the things the bible suggest even.
white eagle, I see where you are coming from but you are focusing on inevitable negative things that could happen.
The things that have happened though that I find positive and imperative to life on this planet are-
-Perfect atmosphere, if it wasnt as thick as it is we would be crushed by the millions of pieces of cosmic debris, and meteorites that continually fall on this planet
-Perfect distance from the sun creating perfect heat absorption
-Perfect axis
-Perfect moon that pulles the tides, without it we couldnt live on this planet.
-Without the tides created by the moon, all our harbors and shore would become one stench pool of garbage, and it would be impossible to live anywhere near them.
-The tides aerate the ocean providing oxegen for the plankton, which is the very foundation of the food-chain of our world.
-Without the plankton there would not be oxygen, and man would not exist in this world.
-the moon is also perfectly sized and distanced from the sun, to perform these and numerous other functions.
-The amazing nitrogen cycle thats needed for plants. It get out of the air and into the soil through lightning, 100,000 lightning bolts strike this planet daily, creating a hundred million tons of usable plant food in the soil each year.
-Perfect ozone. Eight killer rays fall upon the earth continually from the sun, without the ozone we would be burned blinded and broiled by them.
If compressed the ozone would only be a quarter of an inch thick.
-Perfect clouds, covering 50 percent of the earth at any one time.
-Perfect water, I could go on and on about the cycle, but instead tell about something maybe you dont know. Bizmuth is the only other liquid that is heavier at 4 degrees celcius than it is at freezing. Meaning when its frozen its lighter and rises. If this were not so the lakes would freeze from the bottom up and kill all fish. The algae would be destroyed,
If when you talk about the eye, you intend to tell us that it's too complicated to evolve, don't bother--it's a BS claim that that's been refuted dozens of times. If "atheism is irrational" is a prelude to talking about how we can't prove that there's no God, so it's irrational to believe that there isn't one, bear in mind that you can't prove that I don't have a miniature dragon living in my freezer, either. So either fall on your knees and praise my freezer-dragon or don't use that argument.
To everything HP said,
That is why there is life on earth!
There is almost an infinite number of planets in the universe, yet there is life on this one. That is WHY there is life here, it is perfect. We are suited for life, and thus there is life.
Don't give me that our atmoshphere is perfect, so there must be a god bullshit. we adapted to our environment, early organisms thrived off the now noxious chemicals that were in our atmoshphere. They turned them (over a reallllly long period of time) made it to our specifications. We evolved to our environment, and we changed it to how we thrive. That is not god, thats science. High School level Bio.
Tpt > ✅ 👆
If this planet was perfect because of God, then why was there no oxygen (which is essential for humans to survive, as everyone knows) in the atmosphere originally? It wasn't until photosynthetic bacteria evolved that there was oxygen in our atmosphere, and YES, there is evidence for this. (and btw, want to know where I learned that? My high school bio class...)
Science has evidence to back up their theories. Religion has nothing to back up it's beliefs.
Originally posted by HiddenPotential
Gregory, it seems to me that your religion is evolution.
In your opinion, how did we humans evolve, start at the beginning
TO Allready responded to all of this in the Evolution thread when I asked her a simalar question to get ammo against People like you.
THis is her answer, copyed and pasted for your benifit
"Tpt> First of all - being an aetheist doesn't require you to explain how matter "came" here. Your decision not to believe in the supernaturl doesn't require you to become a science-expert.
What do your friends use as an explanation? God? Who created God? If God's eternal, then why did he wait forever until he created the Universe?
Forever-13,7 billion years=forever!
But anyways… Big Bang: There are a couple of things you need to understand first, which might sound pretty hairy (I know I thought so when I first heard about it).
TIME: Time and space both began some 13,7 billion years ago. Essentially it has NO meaning to speak of BEFORE BB, because time didn’t exist. This makes discussing events before BB pretty difficult, but let’s try anyways.
MATTER: 1-1=0. To create an equal amount of matter (1) and anti-matter(-1) you need noth-ing (0). That’s of course not entirely true, but quantum-mechanics allows for it.
Ok?
Now “before” BB the theorists tell us that there was this primordial “quantum-soup”. The Heisenberg Uncertainty principles allows for matter to break energy-conservations laws, as long as it only happens within a short period of time for example.
But hey, there WAS no time before the BB, so NOW what? Also: If you wait long enough the improbable will happen. If you wait forever, the impossible will happen (this is statistics).
Now, couple this together: Heisenberg Uncertainty principle, no time, and if you wait forever the impossible will happen. Again, there was NO time prior to the BB, so – KAPOW (to use old Batman sounds), one quantity of Universe sprang into existence.
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