How can Atheists deny the wonder of God?

Question

you can see his hand at work everywhere

Answer 1

Do you see his hand at work more in droughts, babies with diseases or hurricanes?

Answer 2

Well, I'm agnostic - but I figure that I might have an answer similar to an Atheist.

Deny the wonder of God? See his hand at work everywhere? You know what I see when I see a bird, a tree, grass, whatever? I see evolution and biology at work. I see random chance. You know what I see when I see a child, or someone helping another person, or love? I see the greatness of human beings and the love we hold. You know what I see when I see poverty and war? I see man's bad side as well.

Nature is beautiful. Humans are wonderful and flawed.

But I think this is our world, not some higher power's. When you offer me real, concrete proof of God, then I'll believe.

Answer 3

Atheists are not poetic, they embrace the scientific method that requires rigorous proof of any supposition or question. People of a poetic and religious mind think, see and hear differently.....they are artists and artists do works of wonder, write music, write books, sculp and paint, sing and dance. Atheists see the wonders of the universe and feel just as profoundly as the poets. In my mind, no two people see the same thing the same way but in the end, both scientists and religionists often take a step backward in awe when a great truth has been revealed. Truth, that's the common thing, but seen in a different light and in a different way.

Answer 4

I always thought that it is amazing to think that people can deny the existence of a supreme being until I married someone who care not about things he can not prove. He is the most wonderful person.
When I lived in Australia I guessed that only about a third of the people I met were staunch Christians. So many atheists called for God when they were faced with the death of a loved one.
Many people think themselves as God until they are faced by circumstances outside their control.
Christians too sometimes diminish God by thinking He is a mere human like us or that He or She is visible or in physical form. In fact if anyone think of God as outside him / herself they will never find Him. Knowing God is an experience with your whole being. Not a separate vision only. It is not born from fear, but from love.

Can anyone except that God may be a great plan in- and through which everything exists.
I guess so many people who are classified as atheists are people who recognize the hypocrisy and imperfection of many churchgoers.
When I worked in an intensive care unit ,seeing babies who never had a chance to sin suffer and die,. I lost my faith (I used to be a Sunday school teacher) For years I rejected the scriptures. My search about the meaning of death lead me eventually back to the Bible. Then I understood, but this search is a path each person needs to tread alone. When you find God, you will know it in your heart.

Answer 5

to qoute douglas adams
"isn't it enough to see that the garden is beautiful without having to believe there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"

and how do quote david attenborough

"My response is that when Creationists talk about God creating every individual species as a separate act, they always instance hummingbirds, or orchids, sunflowers and beautiful things. But I tend to think instead of a parasitic worm that is boring through the eye of a boy sitting on the bank of a river in West Africa, [a worm] that's going to make him blind. And [I ask them], 'Are you telling me that the God you believe in, who you also say is an all-merciful God, who cares for each one of us individually, are you saying that God created this worm that can live in no other way than in an innocent child's eyeball? Because that doesn't seem to me to coincide with a God who's full of mercy"

or is your god not responsible for all the horrible things.

like thousands of people dying of starvation because of drought

Answer 6

awe, I read "the book" and found it so boring I can't remember any of it.

So, like a poster above, I'll show you:

I deny the wonder of god

I do so because I see only cult-like nuts who talk about this god, I see no proof there is a god, and I see so many contradictions - preachers molesting children and so on - and the only retort is "faith" that equals - bury your head in the sand and pretend it ain't so.

Answer 7

All faiths deny other faiths' Gods. Atheists deny all Gods.

You are almost as much of an atheist as they are.

Answer 8

Why do you deceive yourself and allow yourself to be brainwashed? Its like saying "I have this rock, I believe in it, it gives me all the power in the world. You can't see this power, but I believe its there." Great. There is no rational thinking there, and no argument can be made because of this faith. Not proof, just belief.

Many people believed a lot of things for thousands of years that were not true. And besides, we're just insignificant little specs in the universe, and it is arrogant to think that one book (especially one that contradicts itself) as all the answers.

Answer 9

Atheists, like everyone else, see wonders everywhere. They just don't call them God's wonders.

Answer 10

Everywhere I look I see reality obeying mathematical laws rather than obeying the whims of a mythical god.

Answer 11

You say it is god's wonder, I just say it's there and was created spontanously. I happen to like the way I think and I will not change ever change it. After all logic says if something has to be created to exist then who created the creator.