Atheists can you answer my poll?

Question

Just a question to understand.

If your child was born with a disfigurement that needed surgery, would you......

a) Blame God or something else (No belief necessary)

b) Blame bad genetics from your family tree

c) Try to think of it as Evolution

Just sincere answers about your decision.

tjreamer

Obviously too much cynicism to even understand a simple text

JT

You have no class.

Answer 1

Blaming is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do but you never get any where.

Get the kid help and think it is part of genetics or exposure to something else.

Answer 2

An Atheist would never blame God.. That would make him a Theist.

I would not blame genetics, genetics does not contain a harmful intention(They do not think) if it were to apply, and even then I would not hold a grudge against everything related to genetics

Evolution, possibly.. If the disfigurement met the requirements of evolution I might think of it as that.. Again, I would not curse out Evolution..

Answer 3

there are explanations for this type of thing , you know ? science would explain the cause of the disfigurement and then science would correct the problem with some sort of surgery . mind , that there is not a corrective surgery for everything . i pose the same question to religious peoples . would a religious person even get the surgery for the child , afterall god made the child this way . why would you change god's will ?

Answer 4

Religious types are always looking to place blame on somebody or something, similar to your takes on sin and guilt.

I think your question is kind of stupid and shallow. (and why would you ask an atheist if he would blame god??????)

My answer is :
d) None of the above. Accept it, move on and get the surgery done.

ADDITION:
Oh I understand your simple text...I just think it's a pointless question. This is my sincere answer, and if you think this one is cynical, you are very naive.

As a physician and scientist, I am well aware of the various reasons that may explain the condition ("bad" genes, spontaneous mutation, or "idiopathic") I just think your question pre-supposes that one would be looking for someone or something to blame, which I think is a very narrow (religious) point of view. I agree with JT, that it is a juvenile question, but I won't apologize for that.

Also, science doesn't say it has all the answers, only religion is arrogant enough to make that claim.

Answer 5

It wouldn't necessarily be bad genetics from the family, unless there had been some bad breeding down the line, but genetically it would be something that had gone wrong in the development. But I wouldn't care, and I certainly wouldn't blame the Gods or blame evolution.

Answer 6

My 3 year old son has histiocytosis. A tumor was removed from his face. I haven't had it fully explained to me if this is genetic or not, and quite honestly, how will that information help me, I don't know.

I don't believe in God and so that really has no part of my life.

Wether or not this is some product of evolution, I don't know what that question really means exactly.

My son was taken to a hospital and a tumor was removed from his skull by doctors. Currently he is on chemotherapy treatments.

The disease exists in the real world and there are real world cures.

Quite frankly, I'm glad for the progress made by medical science that brought us to the point in 2006 where my son has a fighting chance to beat this disease.

I love my son.

I'm obviously intelligent enough to talk to a doctor and figure out the whys and all that about his disease, but just for whatever reason I just don't care enough about the why to deal with it with a doctor and asking questions. The point is they are giving him medicine to fix it to prevent more tumors.

Since there is no "god" in reality, I don't blame god. If anything, I see religous people fighting stem cell research, which I believe might lead to other cures for other diseases to help other children.

My son's cure came about because of medical expiriments. I don't know for sure at the time if there was some religious nut protesting the research of chemotherapy on histiocytosis children.

But because of research a medicine was developed.

The way I see it I don't care what people believe or what church they go to, I just see this religious right in America as trying to prevent progress to achieve other cures for other diseases.

If you see me on yahoo answers attacking God, make no mistake about it, I'm only attacking an ideology of dogma that is preventing medical research to continue in this country, we see the recent George Bush decision, we also see the attempt to put religion in the classroom with Intelligent Design. Intelligent Design says there is a creator. Thats a religious believe. That does not belong in public school science class.

So if you see me shouting out questions about Evolution, its cause I don't want Intelligent Design ever taught to my 3 year old when he grows up.

Good luck to you, and do me a favor if you answer my questions, don't give me any more smart a-ss remarks.

Thanks

Answer 7

I don't see the point of blaming anyone. Humans have a lot of genetic problems. That is life. When people learn to deal with life without making up imaginary beings we will all be better off.

Answer 8

Blame is not exactly the term I would use. My answer is basically B, but I would phrase it "believe the cause to be genetic defects or other uncontrollable factors." It really wouldn't matter beyond what I need to know to fix and/or control it.

Answer 9

I would not do any of that, I would ofcus on helping the child and getting the surgery. we do not believe in a god so why would we try and place any form of blame there.

Answer 10

convinced i'd. I have theory this myself at circumstances. no longer for in worry-free words 'man or woman content cloth'. yet because the fellow content cloth should be saved remote from minors and protecting childrens questions for a childrens section will be strong too, as their questions may have a tendency to change into tiresome each and every each and every now and then.