What Is The Main Reason Atheist's Claim There Is No God?

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Stewart Pinkerton Profile
There is absolutely no evidence to suggest that such a being exists, or ever existed. Rational people therefore tend to be atheists, or at least agnostic.
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Brian
Brian commented
No that didn't actually happen. You are very correct sir. But that watch did get created, right? So if there's no logical way a tornado could create a watch then there's no logical way a huge mass of gas and energy could explode and form a perfect world with the perfect amount of oxygen, atmospheric pressure, water, perfect orbit around the sun in conjunction with the moon, plant life and most certainly no way it could've formed anything as amazingly complex as an animal. That's logic for ya
Brian
Brian commented
Oh and Jesus is perfect evidence of our God!!! You've just got the mindset of a Jew who doesn't want to accept it even though it's set in stone.
Brady
Brady commented
Intuitive, I sugest that you take a good look at your worldview. It would appear that you are under the impression that the universe revolves around humanity. The universe does not adapt to us in fact we are making our planet less habitable by the day. We adapted to the universe around us and didn't do so until relatively recently. Concider the average lifetime of a human being (approx. 80) when compared to the life of the universe (approx. 14 billion) again we adapted to the universe.
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Brady answered
Generally atheists claim that there is no God because they have come to the conclusion through some logic that there is no God.
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Brian
Brian commented
2,227 miles but I'll bet you've never taken a boat to Honolulu to double check their calculation. Those facts were also written by man... If you are so capable of believing in these things then what is it that makes you so uncapable of believing that an intelligent being like yourself but greater created something as complex as you?
Stewart Pinkerton
One perfectly good reason for not believing in God, and definitely not in Jesus, is that lots of people have claimed to talk to Him (including of course Muhammad), and yet none of you guys seem to agree on which God is the Real One. Since you all seem to believe that anyone who is not a part of your little cult is going to Hell, I'd bet that you're *all* wrong.
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Brady commented
There is no evidence as yet of a God which has been presented which can be tested or observed. I trust encyclopedias because their contents are testable, if I wanted I could measure the distance in nautical miles from the US to Honolulu. That is where logic and religion differ, I can't check whether or not Jesus Christ was born from a virgin womb nor can I check and see if he raised from the dead in 3 days, however since most other people don't do this (read none) I assume it didn't happen.
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Because something has happened in their life where they called upon Him and it didn't work out the way they wanted so they got mad at HIM.
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Perry Donaldson commented
I am not a scientist, but the way our earth works is the distance from earth to sun, the plant life,
the food chain, the air we breathe to live,no two fingerprints are same , no DNA the same retina's the same, snowflakes the same on and on and on and still your worldview will not permit you to budge, You are definately not a freethinker. True Christian's are the only true freethinkers,they do not let the concept of paridigm to shift their free thinking
trht uuiyuii
trht uuiyuii commented
I never was religious to begin with

and ziglag, thats right ur not a scientist, so stop trying to be one. True christian are the the biggest morons on the planet.
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Karen F. answered
The main reason that I am an atheist is that there is absolutely no reason to believe in any kind of deity at all.

When you can explain to me why you don't believe in Zeus, you will understand why I don't believe in your god.

Religion was originally created by people who were unable to explain the natural phenomena going on around them. To them, gods must have been responsible, since they lacked the tools to discover the real explanation. The Aztecs sacrificed multitudes of their own people to try to ensure there was rain, and enough food, and a favourable outcome in battle with others. They didn't know what "climate" is, or fertilizer, or how to vastly improve their weapons.

"God did it" is an easy answer to everything - there it is, all laid out and prepackaged for you. No thinking required to understand your world or the people in it or the events that take place.

Atheists are people who are not satisfied with that answer. We want to study reality, and learn, and grow in our understanding of our lives and our world.

And I have to add, To Intuitive:

All the analogies that you draw when trying to argue for a "creator" fail because you are talking about inanimate, static, objects. Once made, a watch does not grow, learn, or adapt to a new environment. It can't. It just is, and it just does what it does.

As for accepting that there are some things that we have to rely on experts to tell us, that is equally invalid. Sure, I might never have seen a dolphin give birth and nurse its young, but I could if I wanted to. Same with measuring the distance to Honolulu - if I wanted to, I could go down there, rent a boat, and measure the distance. We rely on facts that have been verified by experience and observation, and that could be replicated if we wanted to put in the effort.

There is no need for us to disprove a god, because there is no evidence that one exists in the first place. It is the one who is making the claim that must prove it. If I said I had a car in my garage that goes 800 mph .... Do you think it's up to me to prove it, or up to you to disprove it?
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To say that there is no God is just as much a claim to knowledge as to say that God does not exist, so both views require justification. It's not enough to simply show that all the arguments for the existence of God fail, but the objector must give justification to the contrary, otherwise the said objector is really just a soft agnostic--the possibility is still there. For example, in ancient times the Romans lacked a belief in the existence of Native Americans, so does that therefore mean that there was no Native Americans? No, it doesn't. The possibility is there, but it just wasn't a justifiable belief prior to any transatlantic explorers.
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Brian answered
Because they don't want to accept a power over themselves whom has a set of moral standards by which they should live.  This allows them to do whatever the hell they want without feeling any guilt.  At least they would like to think that they won't feel any guilt by disbelieving.
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Brian commented
If morality is simply a developed trait that we humans have gained from our evolution then why doesn't any other species on Earth have a moral code? All animals I know of work in a pattern or off of basic instincts. Animals have been here longer than us so don't you think that some other species other than humans would've developed a moral code by now??? To say no would be to defy all logic.
Brian
Brian commented
And logic is the name of an atheists game, right???
Karen F.
Karen F. commented
You make no sense at all, you know that, right?

Atheists do NOT lack morals, any more than any other mixed group of people. There are good and bad apples in every barrel.

What you don't seem to understand is that atheists just don't care about your god at all, unless people like you want to damage childrens' edcuations or restrict our legitimate freedoms.
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Gene wright answered
Their philosophical assumption. Which is really hard to disprove.
Their religion is darwin & huxley & materialism.
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Brian
Brian commented
It's impossible to disprove unless they actually want a change in their life because they are so convinced by their inner dillusions that God does not exist. No matter how much logic or intelligently researched knowledge that you give them there will always be an opposition. This is due to egotism that develops when they tell themselves there is no God due to either problems they've been through or the inability to accept that there is a power greater than themselves whom gave us rules.
Brian
Brian commented
Without rules there is no error and without error there is no guilt. Therefore it helps them try to alleviate all wrong that they have done because they think they're just another evolved ape running around. Concluded this means that they don't have to bow to a greater power or think about the consequences of not bowing.

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