Why do atheists work on trying to disprove the existence of a "designer"?

Question

what is your motive? Are you really that pompous? Lol

I am a logical person and logic tells me that the earth was NOT created in 6 days and the earth is not 6000 yrs. old. But logic also tells me that the cosmos is far too complex to have been a "roll of the dice"

OK, I guess we (atheists/theists) cancel each other out. Prove/disprove, believe/don't believe, I guess ultimately these types of questions are useless, what's their point?

"CC" how could you disprove something that is proved (I'm not saying theism is proved) so what you say makes no sense

For people who say "roll of the dice" is simplistic, it's metaphoric, I don't feel like writing the history of "everything"

Answer 1

To those claiming to use logic...would that be the "logic" of a mass of evolved neuron connections that randomly through mutation tell you that you are right? The first thing we can't do if we assume our brains are not designed with precision and meaningful purpose, is to USE them to debate anything. One can't trust the perceptions of such a brain.

Answer 2

An atheist is simply someone who doesnt believe in the Easter Bunny or any other posited invisible entities that have no support. Where do you get this silly idea that they are "working" to disprove an unproven myth?

This image of pompous atheists feverishly working to get-ya sounds like hatefilled-religious propaganda meant to demonize a group so that they will be hated instead of heard.

Answer 3

One does not need to disprove something that hasn't been proven in the first place.

EDIT: It seems that you do not understand my point. If someone has not shown something to exist, why should anyone try to disprove its alleged existence? Hence, your assumption that atheists try to disprove a designer's alleged existence is flawed. It is illogical. Atheists will logically wait until someone proves the designer's existence.

Answer 4

faith occupies my techniques because of the fact i became into raised in an extremely religious kinfolk, and to a lesser quantity, in an extremely religious society (see: Rick Santorum). i do no longer waste time attempting to disprove the Easter Bunny because of the fact no one incredibly believes interior the Easter Bunny. yet while greater desirable than 0.5 of the folk around you have faith in a mythical being, once you're extraordinary for no longer believing in it, then you definitely start to spend time and concept on that mythical being and worry-free strategies to get human beings to work out that he's fictional.

Answer 5

Are you really that pompous to insist that there is a designer though there is no empirical proof of one? What is your motive? To save me? From what? You have no proof that there is anything after this life from which to save me and others like me.

I work on trying to disprove the existence of a designer because I want this world to be run on facts, not desires or personal truths.

Answer 6

Because this country (US) has been hijacked by a bunch of bible-thumping hypocrites and the rest of the planet is getting more science and more math and more reading while we sit over here being lead by a nitwit with HIS god on speed-dial and the first attorney general of his administration , Ashcroft, putting a sheet over a nude statue of the woman holding the scales of justice. These items and about a billion other stupid things I'm too tired to type and we've got the countries of my youth who were in the rear-view mirror and catching up to our technology and education are now in our windshield pulling away. We are sick of our country's slide into the dark ages of thought and we are not going to let it become a theocracy.

Answer 7

Atheists don't work hard, if at all, on trying to disprove the existence of a "designer." What they do work hard on is trying to get a Christian to prove that there is a "designer" . . . alas to no avail. Afterall, Christians are the ones that believe in a designer. No one actively seeks to prove something that does not appear (ie lacking in evidence) to exist. Atheists will argue that the lack of evidence is proof of its non-existence.

Answer 8

It's not much work. You take a comparative anatomy course and you see the various ways that various structures evolved in various creatures. There are too many technical limitations in using the same parts in so many variations, so it is obvious that there is no design, just adaptation.

Answer 9

I'm not pompous, but my motive is the homosexual agenda. Watch out, because I am an evil queer atheist! Oh noes!!!!!!

Seriously, I disprove the design/designer thing because it isn't true. Things can and do happen randomly, even if the chances are small. And anyway your designer did a pretty bad job... thanks for the adrenoleukodystrophy, global warming, and war, O Mighty Designer!

Answer 10

atheists arent the ones trying to oust science from the classroom (see kitzmiller v dover before you deny this), and atheists are not the first group you think of when I say "660 million dollar settlement for the rape of innocent children"

p.s. please try to understand fundamental principles of logic- atheists have nothing to prove whatsoever; the burden of proof rest with theists and their magic sky daddies

you wanna talk pompous?!?

the obvious question would be "who designed the designer?" and the answer is, as always, you guys did

alas, hope does not constitute proof