Atheists read this and give me your view please?

Question

I just read this question and the replies really annoyed me-
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061014175530AApIeHZ&r=w
The answers are the most uninteligent I have ever seen and have nothing to do with the question- they all seem to be from irate fanatics.The question seems completely inofensive and raises a good point.

What do you think?

Evidently there have been some intelligent answers since I posted this question It just took a while for the right people to check it out.

Answer 1

I think it is typical and predictable responses from judgMENTAL and fundaMENTAL christians. They truly have no idea why they are so offensive and abrasive. They consistently answer unintelligently and avoid the questions at their core. It must be nice to have it all wrapped up in a neat little package called god, and yet I pity them. They look at the world without an ounce of real curiosity or wonder. They see this wonderful thing called life as merely a stepping stone to the next and pass by so many opportunities for experiencing it's completeness. I think they use every opportunity like the question you are referring to, to elevate themselves up onto little rickety soapboxes in a vain attempt to console their own inner insecurities regarding their faith. They parrot what they have heard and blindly jump into herd mentality at every sign of resistance. They live in small boxes and see with closed eyes. They truly do not know what they do.

Answer 2

Hmm, most of the answers didn't seem all that irate or fanatical to me.

I'm atheist with respect to the God of Abraham. If you relax the definition of "god" to just "a supreme being who created this universe", then I am agnostic. But I believe that if the universe was created as an intelligent act of a god, then it seems very probable that god decided on a set of physical laws, initiated the Big Bang, and then took no further direct actions. Such a god is completely transparent to any means of observation we have available to us.

Following this line of reasoning further, I expect its highly probable that the god didn't give us eternal souls. But if it did, then I expect its highly probably that we won't be judged after we die based upon our beliefs, but only on the actions we took in life.

In other words, I think the odds are very high that whether there is a god or not doesn't matter. I still feel a strong drive to live this life to the fullest, and to behave ethically, whether there is a god or not.

Answer 3

I consider my self an agnostic most of the time, but I read it, as you requested, and none of the replies really annoyed me. None of them seemed irate either, though I can understand why you consider them to be fanatics. There are fanatics in the atheist camp too, in case you don't know that. Actually, I did not even find most of the replies even very unintelligent, though they were opinionated. I suppose you will consider me unintelligent too, for failing to agree with you. So be it. Like the umpire in the ball game, I just call things the way I see them.

Answer 4

Right...

We created our Universe.

Your asking how right..

Simple if in 200 thousand years we can replicate the big bang that created us, then the Big Bang that created us - was probably a replication, and the one before that, and the one before that.

My theory hinges on us being able to create a Big Bang, that will give us the universe we have now - in the future..

We will be able to do it. Human technology will be able to do it - even though it will kill the people left, who's lives and universe are finite anyway.

Who created the first big bang? When we will be able to make a big bang, we will fiind out how easy an occurance they are, and will definately not be thinking god. We will be thinking accident.

This is a really good answer, if you try to understand it, a lot of people don't though.

Answer 5

The question in, er, question simply raises a philosophical debate regarding something OTHER than "god", but it seems that the only answers were from those who could not understand the point of the question.

Ironically, the answers attempt to destroy the scientific pondering in order to replace it with more God.

At this point, I'm as much in favor of the Rapture as the Christians are so they'll all go away.

Answer 6

Belief in a God, any super natural being, seems to be a necessary component of many human beings. Perhaps it is their feelings of helplessness in the face of a hostile Universe, or simply a psychological crutch to get them through the day.

God is a human invention, not the other way around. We invented him: he didn't invent us. The Universe was here before we invented him, and it will be he when we, individually and/or collectively are gone.

Answer 7

I think its a fair comment. Religion is built through control and fear and leads to war. Look at history and the current problems of the world. No god No allah just life. Do we need anything else.
If you want to believe fine but don't preach to those who have chosen not to. Its a personal thing.

Answer 8

Nothing offensive about the question, it's just that It questions a religious "truth" and that is sure to get the religious fanatics wound up. I'm afraid I find religious people hard to understand, illogical and irrational.

Answer 9

God gave us free will didn't he? I am assuming that included an open mind? Godniks need to look at the world around them and question everything in it, it may bring them closer to God or it may help the rest of us understand how the world, and everything else, works. Or they could just stay in the tiny room they have created for them selves reading the bible, whatever.

Answer 10

Annoying yes. Fanatics yes. It always amazes me that you can get the "you need to be more humble", "you have a lot to learn", "you need God in your life" answers to something that the questioner has already stated that he or she doesn't believe in God. It's a bit bold on their part to assume that they have the right to tell anyone else what they need to believe.