Why do atheists...

perhaps it's just me, but it seems that there's the same thing going on in religion as there is in politics -- people are choosing sides and the middle of the road folks are a shrinking demographic.

so yeah, there are probably a lot of religious folks who've gotten more religious and probably a number of atheists who've really gone off the deep end -- both at the expense of the middle (whatever that might be in a religious context).

 

Could be but IMHO you have a long way to go to prove any coorelation between declining religion and increase in information.

 

More information because these so called scientists can make a quick buck bywriting junk novels. People buy the hell out of those things.

Why must you cling to these fairy tales? It's okay to die and let the worms eat you. Be at peace with your mortality brother.

 

I fully plan on the worms having what's left of me when I die. Good riddance!

 

There being no afterlife would not dissuade me from thinking a creator had to play a part in the creation of life.

 

People as well read and intelligent as you are, that still believe, baffle the hell out of me. I don't get it and I never will.

 

And people like you who think they grasp evolution but don't realize natural selection can't explain how a single irreducibly complex system came into being or epigenesis or really the whole theory of evolution but still think it is the best explanation we have baffle the hell out of me.

 

What specific information have you learned that gives you a reason not to believe, Barry?

 

not believing is a natural state. believing something requires proof or evidence. the lack of sufficient proof or evidence would leave people in the natural state of non-belief.

 

The fact that we are here and self aware is evidence to me of some higher plan or authority at work. I would argue that given the propensity of people all over the world and through out history to believe in various religions that it is not the natural state to "not believe".