
so....i have a question about all of this.....
Submitted by Camelspider on April 30, 2008 - 11:08pm.as an atheist i am not inclined to believe in anything supernatural. well, as the years have gone on, my understanding has grown of science and the cosmos. this has led to a lot more questions about life and love, human intelligence and understanding.
long story short.....i still have not found a viable answer to the question of why. or a purpose if you will.
passing on genetic information is kind of a cop out to me, gaining knowledge seems futile if there is no after the end. so that's out. betterment of mankind is out due to a selfish nature in me. (if i don't get to play with the new toy then why invent the tool that is going to make it?)
if i were a member of the faithful i would call this a crisis of faith, but i am not one. so if you are at all able to help and guide me to some sort of reasoning or purpose that would be great.
i have no want of a higher thingy in the sky™
can an atheist have a crisis of non belief?
can i not really care......or worry about the gaps? maybe that's the purpose......
all these questions...agggghhhhhh. good night.....
"Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence." - Dr. Richard Dawkins

