When I read the title of this thread, I knew it couldn't have been written by an atheist, since atheists know how to spell "atheism".

Anywho...I am an atheist. What can I say? There's nothing I have ever experienced in my life that would qualify as sufficient evidence that there's a gigantic invisible superhuman intelligence that spontaneously came out of nowhere and then designed the universe. That hypothesis seems too improbable for words. In my experience, it seems all the evidence points to the fact that intelligence does not spring out of nothingness by chance. Intelligence only seems to arise through the non-random process of Darwinian natural selection over geological timespans in incremental steps from simple beginnings. The creationists are right on one point: incredibly complex things don't just form themselves out of nothing by chance. Trouble is, they fail to apply this principle to their own God, and fail to see why evolution is a non-random process that explains the only way complex intelligence can conceivably arise from simple self-replicating molecules.

If there is such a God, or a Flying Spaghetti Monster, or a Santa Claus out there, I invite them all to show evidence of themselves. Until then, the lack of evidence is going to lead to a lack of belief. That's just how my brain works, and there's nothing I can do to change it. I can't make myself believe in something for which there is no evidence, so I don't believe in God, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, or Santa Claus.
Oneironaut Reviewed by Oneironaut on . My thoughts on athiesm I believe that Athiesm, in itself, is hypocritical. To Acknowledge one possability over another on something that as of now, we can not fully understand, over another is hypocritical. I believe in being agnostic. If you are going to have a belief in something that no one, as of now, has the ability to learn the exact truth of, you need to consider every possability. Discuss :) Rating: 5