Are Atheists really just superstitious people in disguise?

Question

They actually believe that amino acids assembled themselves into proteins and then those proteins assembled themselves into reproducing living cells that evolved into fish and later evolved into humans. And all this due to a random explosion in space caused by nothing. That’s identical to believing in perpetual motion and magic so isn‘t that really superstitious?

Answer 1

Atheists may or may not be superstitious, I don't think it's a requirement either way. As for the beliefs that you stated, they are scientific theories, neither proved or disproved (as someone has already stated). Please remember that science cannot prove anything, only disprove things. There is evidence supporting these theories, but there is also contradictory evidence, not quite disproving them, but definitely making things a little more confusing. I would like the Christians as well as the Atheists to remember this part of science because each group tends to throw "proof" in the other's face, when, in all actuality, there is no "proof" for any scientific theory.

And no, to answer another question asked in the answers, perpetual motion cannot be accomplished even in space because even there the forces of gravity (although weakened) still have an effect on things as well as small pieces of debris, which are always present in all space, cause friction.

Answer 2

Amino acids have been known to arrange themselves.

http://www.springerlink.com/content/u847468660573g7r/
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/abioprob/abioprob.html

Neither you nor I really know what created the universe. I don't know where the singularity came from just like you don't know where God came from. And when they formulate an idea without any glaring holes to explain why I'm here, I'll believe in it. Until then, there seems to have been a large explosion some time back, and that's just about all I know. Anybody, theist or atheist, who claims to know more than that is probably full of it.

Answer 3

So Christians believe that there is a magical man that lives in the sky and he is so magic that he isn't even one man, he is three men in one. And they believe that he impregnated a virgin who had a form of him as a baby. They also believe that this man in the sky has punished people through natural disasters, plagues, and other brutal forms of violence.

They have these 10 rules that they follow without question, worship this invisible man every Sunday, and talk to him before they eat and go to sleep every night.

Now I have a question, does it not seem that you believe in a LOT more magic than someone who believes that particles exploded and through evolution the universe was created?

Answer 4

Not any more superstitious than a mystical, magical 'god' who 'existed forever'. I mean really dude, what a moronic question. At least my beliefs are based on science and physics. The Christian religion is based on a book that is so old and outdated that its not even funny. Have you read Misquoting Jesus yet? Tangible, factual evidence that over 80% of the bible is false and made up. So NOW what do you base your beliefs on?

Answer 5

Seeing as this has all been recreated in labs, that is amino acids being "turned" into complex protiens with nothing more than energy directed at them (unlike your silly God), Id have to say that superstition is not at all a part of it....

As for perpetual motion, a pendulum in a vaccuum will continue to swing back and forth for eternity....

Answer 6

Huh, interesting theory......since in some ways I had considered the opposite to be true. That religious people (mainly Roman Catholics, since that's the religion I was brought up in) were superstitious because they believed in this spiritual God, with no physical evidence to back up his existence- likely because if they didn't, they'd be on the express train to hell, or whatever happens to sinners after they die (aka superstition).

Answer 7

No. Atheists base this on a more reasonable opinion rather than a superstitious opinion. You cant mix the material world with superstitious world.

Answer 8

That is about as far from fact as it is possible to get. Superstition is the belief in supernatural effects; which is explicitly denied by atheists. The big bang is established science, evolution is a proven fact, and it is patently obvious that your education is sorely deficient.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

Well, they're at least more reasonable than the people that believe that we were created on the whim of a gaseous vertebrate who is personally involved in everything every one of us does.