It continues to boggle my mind that intelligent people can look at the vast, essentially incomprehensible complexity of the universe and just shrug their shoulders and say, "Well, it was all just a happy accident!" The idea that there is no intelligent force behind the creation of the universe is literal madness. Sheer denial of reality. Everyone knows this, especially atheists. The atheistic worldview is not about logic, it's about rebelling against the entire concept of God. The evidence clearly and overwhelmingly (undeniably, really) points to the conclusion that our universe was created by some force far beyond our ability to comprehend. This is why you see many atheists now endorse the "multiverse" theory (saying that there are an infinite number of universes and we just happen to be the lucky one), but this is substantially more an article of faith than the idea that the universe was simply created by a being we would refer to as God.
If you reject Christianity or Islam or Buddhism or all religions, fine. Perhaps you have your own conception of who or what God actually is. But rejecting the existence of God (meaning an all-powerful creative force) altogether is simply not a credible position. We know that God exists. The evidence is all around you and is irrefutable. There are clearly forces at work which are infinitely greater than the ability of the human mind to comprehend. The idea that even the tiniest bit of matter would spontaneously emerge out of nothingness is itself insane (as Vladimir Poontang pointed out above: you cannot logically have an uncaused cause within a closed system - you need something outside of the system to initiate anything, necessitating God). And the idea that a spontaneous uncaused cause could randomly generate complexity on the scale of the universe is literally the most insane notion that the human mind could entertain.
tl;dr Atheism is a lot more about, "Fuck you, Dad! I'll do whatever I want!" than it is, "After careful consideration of the facts and years of study, I find the existence of a creator God highly improbable." But atheists can never admit this, even to themselves.
If you reject Christianity or Islam or Buddhism or all religions, fine. Perhaps you have your own conception of who or what God actually is. But rejecting the existence of God (meaning an all-powerful creative force) altogether is simply not a credible position. We know that God exists. The evidence is all around you and is irrefutable. There are clearly forces at work which are infinitely greater than the ability of the human mind to comprehend. The idea that even the tiniest bit of matter would spontaneously emerge out of nothingness is itself insane (as Vladimir Poontang pointed out above: you cannot logically have an uncaused cause within a closed system - you need something outside of the system to initiate anything, necessitating God). And the idea that a spontaneous uncaused cause could randomly generate complexity on the scale of the universe is literally the most insane notion that the human mind could entertain.
tl;dr Atheism is a lot more about, "Fuck you, Dad! I'll do whatever I want!" than it is, "After careful consideration of the facts and years of study, I find the existence of a creator God highly improbable." But atheists can never admit this, even to themselves.
[size=8pt]"For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.”[/size] [size=7pt] - Romans 8:18[/size]