Will somebody PLEASE tell me why people think Athiesm is scientifically based?

Question

really now, i have not seen one shred of scientific evidence for the belief of Athiesm. Show me, and i may begin to see why people like it so much.

people keep saying this, but i have personally seen nothing that would suggest this...

btw... science does not say we came from a primordial soup. show me the facts that support that one

people! stop telling me about the whales hipbones. those bones support the reproductive organs!

the human appendix: part of our immune system

the human "tail" anchors some very important muscles.

Answer 1

Only misinformed people think atheism is scientifically based.

Atheism is just a word to describe the mindset of those who do not have a belief in god/religion. Think of it this way, amoral-ism would describe the mindset of a person without moral beliefs (not to be confused with immoral, which is "against morals".) An apolitical person has no political bent. Do you see why you're confused?

All humans are born as atheists, and acquire a belief in god from other humans (usually parents) who are theists. A human that is raised in isolation (example: feral children) does not believe in god. They can't comprehend the concept. Many paganistic cultures had no belief in god until they were conquered by theistic empires such as Spain and England, and had theism imposed on them.

Sorry to tell you this, but atheism is the natural human state, and theism is a learned concept. Atheists are primarily people who've decided that the information they were given about god & religion isn't supported by any credible evidence, so they've abandoned it in favor of nothing, ostensibly open to the idea of *something*, if the something that comes along can be supported by reasonable evidence.

It's not the worst way to live, and certainly better than feeling as though you are living a lie, which is how most theists turned atheists will tell you they felt. But scientifically based it is not.

Answer 2

The reason that I am not religious is because evolution just explains so much of science discovers. For instance, there is something called junk DNA that does nothing. Every genome is made up of tons of this stuff. It serves no purpose. Vestigial structures, such as dogs having little claws way up on their legs that they can't move and which do nothing. Whales have a hip bone that is not connected to their spine and is very small. It does nothing. Our eyes have blind spots. Primates have more of the same DNA as us than do any other animals. We look a helluva lot like chimps. There are dinosaur bones in the ground and thousands of other creatures that could not possibly coexists with the organisms that are on earth today. Please tell me how any of the large mammals that exist today could exist if there were dinos such as T-rex eating them. There is a lot of science that leads me to believe that creationism is false. Everyone should be required to take evolution classes in college and high school so that they are presented the evidence. Many Christians have never been presented with the arguments for evolution except from their pastors and other Christians. They hear simply that we evolved from monkeys and dismiss it. I don't deny that there could possibly be a god, just that he hasn't done anything on Earth to make me believe that he exists yet.

Answer 3

First, you have to know what atheism is. Atheism simply means "no god". A person who is an atheist is someone who believes there is no god. As for proof, you show me yours and I'll show you mine....sorry that was immature. I am an atheist because I have never seen any empirical evidence that I shouldn't be. I have read the Bible and many other religious books as well as a great deal about science. I find that the evidence offered by science (much of which contradicts religious beliefs) is much more compelling than that of Christians, which seems to consist primarily of "the Bible says it so it's true" and "history says Jesus was real so of course he was God". I have never had a spiritual experience of any kind, and most of the ones I have heard about can easily be explained by science or common sense (ie, of course their are cold spots and shadows in a dark house on Halloween).
I am also an atheist because I believe I am responsible for my own actions in life. The devil will never make me do something; nor will I ever do something horrible or irrational to please a deity (the Inquistion and 9/11 are prime examples).

Answer 4

I can give you a few facts.

1) if heaven exists where exactly is it? It's not up in the atmosphere and it's definitely not floating in space near us or we would of spotted it. So where is he?

2) Hell couldn't exist scientifically, it would have to be located somewhere in our Earth's core. Considering our core is molten lava and otherwise crust.... see what I mean?

3) There is new evidence that there is a bible out there that is authentic and destroys every bit of 'proof' that the priests use in the bible to prove that God exists.

4) If God existed then why is there so much pain, suffering, and loss in the world? We'd have to be in some sort of utopia enable for him to exist because he'd make everyone happy when they prayed.

5) The bible is written by his postals or postels or whater Mark, Luke, John whoever else is. If the bible was authentic shouldn't it be created by God himself?

6) If God created everything then why does science say that we were created by premordial soup and evolved out of apes and the like? If God created Adam and Eve then we couldn't of come from the Premordial soup.

See where I'm heading with this? The belief of Athiesm exists within his passage.

Answer 5

In order to be considered scientific, a theory must be testable. Creation science is not testable. It lies outside the realm of nature due to its indispensable `acts of God', and mankind can only use natural methods to examine a theory (Hanson and Hanson). Without the possession of this trait, a theory would be infallible, and thus no more accurate than a religious dogma. The second important characteristic of science is that a theory must, from its very conception, be able to be shown to be false. Every scientific theory has the opportunity to be argued against, for which contrary evidence may be presented. Such is not the case with Scientific Creationism, since those who practice it, will not allow contradictory evidence. Therefore, when these people accuse scientists of performing such a heresy, they themselves turn around and use it as the basis of their ideals. Such hypocrites cannot possibly qualify to be proper researchers.

Answer 6

For those who continue to contend that atheism is a "belief" or "faith", it can get no simpler than saying drawing no conclusion from no evidence is pure logic, nothing else. If I'm a biologist and I want to prove a theory about why rabbits hump, don't I need to 1) prove that rabbits exist, 2) put two rabbits together and 3) watch them hump? I CAN'T EVEN GET PAST STEP 1 WITH GOD! There is no empirical evidence that God exists. Why would I go off the zero point on the scale until that is established?

(bizzare example I know, It's getting late...)

Answer 7

Why do so many people treat science as if it were a religion? Why to they worship at the throne of science? Why do they believe in the infallibility of science? Science is based on logic, but logic is a system of though developed by the ancient Greeks. So did nobody ever have a thought before the Greeks? And if they did, was it automatically wrong once the Greeks developed logic?

Answer 8

people developed science to try and explain HOW the UNIVERSE was made and the rules that guide it.
This is the same idea behind religions but maybe reversed why was the universe created and by what.
With Atheism the whole thing was an accident so they can make their own rules about what is right and wrong.
With religion everything was created with and for a purpose and a set of rules that was made by the entity that made this.

Answer 9

Atheism is scientific in that it applies the principle of occam's razor to everything, including religious pursuits.

Since it is conceivable that the universe was created via the auspices of a deity, and it is equally conceivable that the universe was created without a deity, occam's razor rejects the deific hypothesis.

Now, if you'd like me to specifically disprove various religions, you'll have to name them specifically. Most proofs take the form of, "This book claims to be 100% true," and then proving a contradiction from it, thus invalidating the reliability of the only source of information of that religion.

Answer 10

Atheism and science have little to do with each other, except that most atheists are very knowledgable about science.

Most atheists I know (including myself) would prefer to be theists. The problem is there has never been suficient reason or evidence to support the existence of god.