When you were a kid, do you think you would know this answer if I were to ask you? Wonder what would your answer be back then? Do you think you are stupid back then if you do not know the answer? Or you were just uneducated, naive, young kid.
My answer would have been i don't know. I haven't been religiously brain washed as a child. No one is born with the knowledge . If you believe that everything has a creator, Who created God ?
if a being is millions of years more advanced then us, you can consider him a god. where is this going? i don't understand.
The question that any Atheist cannot answer: Where did the first cell of human life exist from? My point is: If you don't know what is the meaning of life, when did it start and where will you proceed with this God-given life? Then what is really the point of believing in anything? Christians do not live by the rule "live to die".
Oh I forgot to mention maybe we didn't evolve all on our own, we could've been genetically engineered.
So in other words you are not exposed to such knowledge then. Who created God? God is the ultimate that does not being created. That is what I believe from the book that has been my guidance. The book that gives the answers to all my questions. Now what about you? What book that has been your guidance in giving all your answers? Have your book gives the answers to all your questions BTW?
Maybe? Are you willing to live in uncertainty for the rest of your life. I don't see being that is any different that a life of an animal.
Atheism is not a religion! It is a lack of beleif in any form of deity. There are no tradition, or other beleifs that are in anyway similar throughout atheists. Also, LOL @kaleshwar. It is impossible to prove or disprove a universal negative!!!!! Therefore you can neither prove or disprove the existance of god. Though, for the purpose of your question, I would change my mind if sufficient proof was given to me. In fact, the amount of proof that I would need to be convinced of the existance of a deity is significantly less than 'scientific proof'. Either way, the existance of a deity is extremely possible, but it is not possible to prove it. And, if there was a god, I would probable renounce he/she/it, if most of the things written in the bible are true. I haven't read the Qu'ran or Torah, or any other religious text, so I could not possibly judge. For example, God has a man willing to kill his own son just because God asks him to. This is against all of the 'moral' teaching in any relgion. Despite the fact that the man didn't kill his son in the end, proves only that God liked to manipulate people. Secondly, the way many religions treat women, homosexuals, people of other religions is in my view wrong. If it was a 'god' that condoned these beliefs, then god is a fool. Lastly, if there were a deity. They would exist with an extra outward dimension to us. So their teachings and existance would be unfathomable/incomprehendable to a human. Simply, the idea of heaven is a very human idea, if there was a place after death where good people go, it wouldn't be explicable in any human language e.g Try to explain what a "fundunglehof'm" is. Exactly, you cannot, because you have never seen, or heard of one. The same principle applies to a deity. You have never seen one, you have never experienced them. So how can you create such an opinion of grandure etc of them? Obviously not you personally, but prophets, and religious writers from the distant past. PPS. If the basis for believing in something was simply that 'you cannot prove that is doesn't exist' (sorry for the harry potter extract) then we would all go around beleiving in fairies. We don't! So some part of us all knows that it is childish to beleive in a deity on simply the sayso of some long dead preachers, who were probably on drugs.
I was asking a genuine question but you decided to take a dig at Islam with a polemic that has been refuted a long time ago. No matter, since you "answered" the question somewhat, this will eventually go to where I intend to lead you to. From your answer, I am made to understand that Atheism does not have the concept of "lying" since it is a teaching of nothing. This takes us to the next question: how do you justify the "good" according to Atheism since there is an absence of morality in Atheism?
What makes you living YOUR life in certainty? Because you follow a specific book? Who is to say that you live life in certainty and not the other way around? Who is to say living a life of uncertainty is worse than living your life in a subjective certainty (which could also be understood as uncertainty in the grand scheme of things)? Anyhow, I'm a former Atheist. I'd like to consider myself an Agnostic. I can't refute the claim that there is no god, so much as I can't refute the claim that there is a god. We still don't have enough knowledge and understanding. I do not deny the POSSIBILITY of a higher power/a superior being/etc but I personally don't believe in one until proven. "As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist." - Protagoras
If anything, I see Atheism as a religion of disbelief in God's existence. In other words, you only believe that God doesn't exist, not because there is empirical proof that God does not exist.
Obviously something does not have a creator. In the Atheist belief system, that something is matter/energy. In the three desert religions, that something is an omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent deity. Either way, the cosmological argument cannot be used to prove or disprove either belief system. Taking your answers from a book is abrogating your human gift of reason. It is the worst example of the Fallacy of Appeal to Authority. A true uncertainty is far better than a false certainty. I would rather not know something than know something wrong. I hold a heterodox position on this topic. I believe that Atheism is a religion. Not believing in a supreme being leads to several logical conclusions, and some of those are nearly universal among Atheists. If god showed up and provided definitive proof of his existence, that would definitely work. Unlike religions which specifically condone or require behaviors like lying and committing violence against non-believers, Atheism requires that people think for themselves. As Steven Weinberg said, "With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." Atheism is to organized religion as laissez-faire economics are to communist economics. In one system, individuals make decisions for themselves. In the other system, authorities make decisions for everyone. I am in the early stages of developing a "third way", where Atheist morality is determined scientifically. However, every attempt to do this in the past has failed miserably and I have little reason to believe that my experience will be any different.
Whoever wrote that obviously doesn't understand Atheism, apparently on purpose. The argument starts out incorrectly, so anything after the beginning can be safely ignored. It starts with "The belief that there was nothing", which is absolutely incorrect. Go back to my comment about matter/energy.
Belief in a deity has nothing to do with creation but rather the the persuasion the creation must follow for it to accomplish an everlasting freedom for pursuit in the universe. Gravity is a source for which all obey unwittingly as essential for existence - Given the choice for compliance to the persuasion of the Creator is no less necessary in reaching the everlasting than gravity for those fortunate enough in successfully traversing the path to remittance. Religions are in search of the path for remittance that none to date have successfully accomplished. .