I'm on the fence between atheism and evolutionism. Which should I be and why?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Neither. Atheism you have no higher power to look to except that out of yourself and when you do that you always end up with the wrong answer or conclusion. Evolutionism should be avoided because there's no possible way that everything came about by chance. If so there's definitely no way we as humans ended up with such a complex system and think our brain is too awesome and powerful to have just come into being, it simply makes no sense.

However, I'm not the authority to tell you what to believe sometimes it just takes looking a little deeper, look below the surface of things and you'll see what the real power is behind all creative designs. Remember it took a designer to create this computer, it didn't just come into being. Its logical to think that a Creator or higher being exists.

Answer 3

I'm on the fence between evolutionism and creationism. That's where Intelligent Design lives. Join me in the Great Indecision of ID.

Answer 4

Existentialism is about the closest to what I believe in. I wouldn't call it a religion but I think the religion field was mandatory for signing up, so I just put that down.

I'm not too keen on the term agnostic because it is taken from the Greek word agnostos, which means unknown. As nobody knows for sure, that means that everyone falls under the category of an agnostic.

I used to class myself as an atheist but I felt that it didn't accurately desribe my beliefs.

Answer 5

Perhaps you should change fences, neither choice appeals to me. Now if you go sit on the fence between Christianity and atheism, God will call you over to his side and you won't have to sit on the narrow hard strip anymore. As far as evolution, God created the world, He is the one whom everlasting life evolves around. There sit on that!

Answer 6

On Religion
When you’re born, through genetics you have predisposition to feel more or less Cognitive dissonance. Cognitive dissonance is the feeling you get whenever you’re your ideas and opinions are in contrast with that of another person’s or when your actions don’t match your beliefs. If not dealt with it turns into physical headaches and stress. This dissonance functions by making us come together and communicate for survival. If you look around you’ll see that like attracts like. People are attracted to other people with similar ideas because it is reaffirming and makes us feel good by reducing that dissonance. It makes us feel normal. You’re more likely to feel you are correct when other people agree. People will usually use the easiest method to reduce dissonance. Some people, join clubs, teams, or go to church with other people who have similar beliefs. Some people exercise and others use drugs like Tylenol or alcohol. A sense of normlessness is called anomie and can lead to depression and even suicide. In those like groups the ideas polarize and become more extreme while their members become more confident in their conclusions. Middle Eastern religious extremists use religion to enable them to become suicide bombers. If you look at the histories of religion you see a pattern. Each religion helps their society deal with their unique life situation for better or worse. The Egyptians had their sun god ect. Therefore, trying to change someone’s religion can make them less adapt to the issues they face in their life. Unfortunately the function of religion is not to show us the truth but to relieve the dissonance by giving us a set of beliefs that tell us what is normal.

So follow Science. Its just a fancy word for looking closely while being skeptical. You test and retest your ideas and gather facts. While it may not give us everything it sure is a lot better than just making stuff up.

Answer 7

Are you joking? There is nothing on the fence for you to be be about.

Atheists believe there is no god.

Evolutionists believe we evolved out of the slime into life as we know it on earth.

Be both if you want. They don't conflict.

But personaly, I'm Catholic and we believe in evolution. We believe that the bible should not be taken literally and that some point in evolution God came into contact with man.

Answer 8

You can be both. Atheism just does not be live in God, and evolution just says how things evolved does not even say where they came from (that is what most christians seem not to get, evolution is not against God, evolution is what happened after God created the first organism) just how they got to the point of today. Those are apples and oranges you are comparing.

Answer 9

athiesm and evolutionism are not exclusive, just like any religion and evolution are not exclusive, as long as you can accept that the people who wrote your religious texts were very ignorant people amd knew nothing about science and geography. Why not encompass both into your belief system if you are going to question your obvious born-again religion.

Answer 10

Nothing is wrong with sitting on the fence. It's perfectly OK to be a fence sitter, the dogs on either side can't get you. You are a survivor man, right on!

Answer 11

People who believe in god as the creator and people who believe in electromagnetic forces as responsible for all, are like two people looking at a rose and calling it by different names. Both are right to believe in their way of discribing what they see and what they call it.

For those who believe in "forces", they try to understand (step by step) how forces made us, as well as everything else. Not surprising, we are still trying to understand a goal that may not be fully attainable. Those who believe in god, accept a simpler explanation for the very complex event; namely,"god created us from himself as well as the heavens".

In the science community, we give credit to forces (like the strong force and the electroweak force) to account for what happens at the atomic and subatomic level, For all things that happen. Still these forces are as big a mystery as god himself is. Further, each term could be substituted one for the other, without changing the meaning: after all god is also a force "The Force".

One thing that bothers some, in the science community, about a god, is the personal nature some people attatch to him. They do not believe forces can behave "man like". But after all, is not a human made up of forces that acquired thought and reason. Hum...

In either case, humans may never fully understand just how things really work, we may always have a need to rely on a little faith.

Is it any wonder, Einstein believed in forces as well as in god.

Like Einstein, I would also like to try to know and understand god, as best as my mind is capable of and in terms that I can follow.

What this comes down to is thinking that there is an all powerful force that governs all, but not based on faith, but rather on Knowledge and understanding, at least up to my mental capacity; That which may be beyond my capicity, is where I might have to take "a leap of faith".

I hope this information will help you decide, on your own, which way to go. What is most important, is that whatever you decide, it is the truth for you.