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I am an atheist because I don't believe in deities and the word atheist describes this state of disbelief. I don't believe in deities because no argument or evidence presented to me in support of their existence has been convincing.

1. Biology adequately describes life and emotions without appealing to mystical invisible dieties

2. Astronomy adequately describes the formation of stars/planets/universe/etc without appealing to mystical invisible dieties

3. Geology adequately describes the evolution of the Earth, land formations, etc without appealing to mystical invisible dieties

4. Psychology describes the human psyche better than appealing to mystical invisible dieties

5. Appealing to mystical invisible dieties is an appeal to ignorance

6. There's no physical evidence for the existence of mystical invisible dieties

7. A myriad of mystical invisible dieties have been posited by emphatically superstitious societies and have been proven to be products of overly active imaginations (today's religion is tomorrow's myth) and ignorance.

8. Believing in mystical invisible dieties seems to become quite absurd when those who posit the mystical invisible dieties begin explaining why and how they exist in the face of contradictory physical evidence.

9. As scientific knowledge increases, the role of the mystical invisible dieties oddly gets pushed further and further back.

10. Mystical invisible dieties are mystical invisible dieties (ie can never be found by empirical methods)

2007-03-15 19:35:27 · answer #1 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0 0

Let's do this... I've put something on my desk top, now it's up to you to tell everyone else what it is.
As an example you feel that it's rounded, and you tell the others that, some agree some don't. Some say that it has to be square and they follow that conviction. With me this far?
OK ... Now there are those that say that there is in fact no object on my desk at all, since they can't see it. And others say that they might accept that there is an object on my desk, but they can't say anything about it since they have not seen it yet.

The smarter ones accepted that they did not know what was on my desk if anything, and they didn't think that things they imagined was the correct answer.

Not accepting imagined ideas as fact is smarter because it leaves the door open for the truth to enter.
(The vase on my desk is blue and the clay is folded into a pattern that makes the vase look like a flower by the way.)

2007-03-15 06:35:07 · answer #2 · answered by --- 4 · 1 0

I think it depends very much to which atheistic philosophy you are referring to. There are many and some are not at all consistent nor reasonable.
There are errors in atheist's philosophies too and moreover a strong belief in man reason alone does not take into account that:
- for man it is difficult to reach the entire truth
- for man it is not so obvious to be objective
- man has prejudices that influence his way of reasoning (even scientists have them. You have to consider prejudice in a broader sense here, example language, background, culture etc...)
Science is a very good thing, but does not judge, therefore it is very difficult to base ethic on science.
Hope this helps.
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I just wanted to add that many a philosophy which has given too much emphasis on human reason has later fallen into deep skepticism.

2007-03-15 07:13:13 · answer #3 · answered by remy 5 · 1 0

There is a great deal of nonsense in both religion and atheism.

The Truth is usually somewhere near the middle.

Love and blessings Don

2007-03-15 09:07:21 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

well atheists in general do not believe in any god or religion or anything of that manner. and they have theories as to why there is no god. but their theories have as much validity as those who try to prove god's existence.

in the end. no one really knows. so no one is right or wrong here. it's just about choosing what to believe in or not believe in.

2007-03-15 12:34:18 · answer #5 · answered by turkeybacon 2 · 0 0

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