Christian looking for questions answered from an atheistic perspective

  1. Evolution. The only reason I believe in evolution is because there's a lot of evidence in it's favor. It's not farfetched and it doesn't have an agenda. Why does nature work that way? I dunno, it's just the way things are (on this planet at least). Did god set evolution in motion? That question is not relevant to me because I don't see why we need a god to set anything in motion. I'm okay with not knowing until evidence is produced. It's kinda like a dark cave. People can tell me to not go in cause they heard there's a bear in there. I would ask did anyone actually see or hear one. They will tell me no but it's better being safe than sorry. Fear and ignorance is obviously at work here. Although i will not blindly walk into the cave to test their assumption, i will do things like set a fire to smoke it out and wait for a response, or drag a dead animal near the entrance, or throw rocks in there, or sling shot a beehive in there lol, something, not just agree with the majority just cause.

  2. Complexity of humans, functioning without a creator. Well, our complexity is explained by evolution. We didn't originate as the "finished product" (today's human) and we are still evolving. We don't see these minute changes in a lifetime, but over millions of years. This is what the evidence suggests. I had someone ask me "but there's no one a million years old to prove it" lol true, but we have elements with long half lives and carbon dating and other stuff I don't fully understand to be honest. Do i hold this belief in evolution to be an authority or infallible? Of course not. I am by no means an expert or some gullible bandwagon participant. I understand enough of it to make sense to me, and f it's disproved tomorrow, no problem! I won't have an existential crisis lol.

  3. Why humans believe in god(s). Look, I don't claim to know how things started and frankly (although I'm still curious) I don't lose sleep over it either. I'd rather remain in the dark than replace my ignorance with god. I don't buy the big bang theory either. The singularity thing makes sense, but that begs the question; where did the singularity come from? We have an inclination of how things came to be, but we're not quite there. Humans are born with an inclination to believe in a higher power. But we are also born with many fallacies on how we view and interpret the world. We see messages/pictures in the clouds, we have a hard time believing in coincidence, we are prone to superstition, we're egotistical and extremely biased by default, we only seek information that supports our beliefs, we're afraid of death so we often turn to religion in old age, we accept what our eyes witness without question ("I know what I saw!"), we think we're special (god loves us and cares for us personally, has a plan curtailed specifically for humans, an insurance package if you will), and we believe in god because we fear condemnation. It all started because early humans didn't understand how things worked. Imagine a caveman family shivering in a cave cause it's a freezing rainstorm outside. Suddenly lighting strikes a tree nearby and a branch engulfed in flames falls right near them. Of course they're shocked at first and panicking but when they realize the fire is warm from a distance, they stop shivering and attribute this event as someone/something looking out for them (god of sky, tree, fire, etc). How come humans have a soul but animals and insects don't? Because we're the one's making the rules, that's why.

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