Can you defend your Atheism with your personal experiences only?

Question

Without using anything other than your own life and experiences. So no "science" or anything else outside yourself.

Answer 1

I have experienced things that I cannot explain and things that humankind cannot yet explain, but I haven't seen anything that I consider "unexplainable". Just because we don't know the reason why something works today, doesn't mean we won't tomorrow.

That's why I'm an atheist.

Answer 2

Atheism is the default assumption, to be believed unless/until there is compelling evidence to reject it. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof, and the claim that the world was created by some biblical-style deity is a very extraordinary claim indeed.

I feel that studying science is very much part and parcel of my "personal experiences". Even without science, though, I simply haven't found a compelling reason to believe in the existence of some deity. That's all the "defense of atheism" that I need.

Answer 3

Yes.

I used to pray. The things I prayed for occured in the exact same ways and likelihoods as if I hadn't prayed. If I worked for them, I had a higher chance of getting them. If I sat on my butt, I had almost no chance of getting them.

When I would conduct rituals instead of prayer trying to get things, I had the same chance as if I was praying or doing nothing. This rules out the supernatural all together.

I am a researcher of neural network techniques. My own personal experiments (thus, personal experience) with neural networks indicate that awareness and learning do not depend on anything extrinsic to the network itself.

Answer 4

Yes, I've tried several Faiths of Christianity and They Don't work, God Means Nothing in My Life and about Spirituality is real.

I've learned from My Experiences that people who believe in a higher power are a bunch of fools, and I've learned better from fellow atheists, then I have from People who are Christians and I'm stating a fact.

Answer 5

first of all your a messed up person for thinking there is a god in the first place. i can say this because your question is easy to prove. iam not even going to talk about my life. just think about it logicly we humans want a purpose to life, a meaning, a god, somthing to look up to because we are not perfect in our eyes. you take all those things away strip them away and you have nothing. this realzation has casused meny deaths. manily sucide. there you go with out our higher thinking and with out our questioning there is no god because god is somthing we made up to belive in. now for all the what if questions like where we com from and what made everything. thats simple to answer also it was there never built up like today but matter can not be ceated or destroyed only change form.

Answer 6

yes i had afriend that was atheist he said there was no such thing and it was raining and lightning out and i said let me get away from you you liable to get struck down he said iyour GOD is suppose to be a straight shooter so therefore you don't have to move if he wants me he will get me not you on his way home he got shot and still said he would not change his mind died same day on the op table 26yr old

Answer 7

Atheism is the default position, no defence is required.

Answer 8

Just a hunch, Vocho

Answer 9

WOW! COOL PHILOSOPHY!! I NEVER THOUGHT OF IT IN THESE TERMS!! I DID THIS VERY THING AFTER AN AUNT DIED WHEN I WAS 17!! CAN'T BE DONE THOUGH!! DEATH OF A LOVED ONE WON'T SHAKE GOD FROM YOU!!

Answer 10

to you I am a atheist, to god I am the opposition