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Originally Posted by tesla69
I used to think I was an atheist but I've come to believe its just as far fetched to say that the miracle of consciousness arose from random chance mixing of amino acids in pools of water over billions of years as from a deity. More and more I find myself thinking about the cloud of plasma and electrons that was spread across the universe for untold billions of years before congealing down into galaxies and stars...and how the electrical activity in that plasma cloud could have become a unified consciousness...
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The atheist doesn't know for a fact that there is not a god (damned sure not in the same sense that the believer claims to know for a fact that there is one). Again, we tend to believe there isn't one for the very simple fact that there is no evidence of god, therefor no reason to acknowledge the existence of one. That, and god in the way god is generally described is not very likely. I'd go as far as to say that I'm 99.9 percent sure no god that has ever been decribed to be exist
I know that dumb quote "you still have to have faith to not believe in god"....it doesn't work like that on any level though.
Much easier to embrace the fact that there are things we don't yet understand than to say "god did it".