Your reason for atheism
So we've all watched the debates, read the books, heard all of the arguments.
But deep down we all know that God doesn't exist.
Just like someone who believes in God, even though they can give intellectual reasons for their beliefs, the reason for their beliefs is not because of the intellectual arguments they make, rather they make the arguments because they believe God exists in the first place.
In the same way one can make intellectual arguments against Gods existence. It is not those arguments that convince us that God does not exist. We know it in the first place, and make our arguments in support of that belief, working backwards, if you like.
But forget the arguments, what is your NO.1 reason for believing that God does not exist.
I will give mine, to start off.
I love to watch nature programmes. Life is fascinating.
Just today I was watching a nature documentary focused around Patagonia , which is located in the southern half of South America.
Whether the camera was focused on Pumas, Condors, Humming birds, or plants/flowers, they all had one thing in common...
That is that virtually everything they do, the way they look , the way they act, the colour of the flower, the shape of their claws, their whole anatomy, etc etc..., is all designed for one thing, that that is to survive and procreate.
Particularly flowers/plants, they don't make themselves look nice for humans enjoyment, they are designed to make themselves alluring to birds so they spread their pollen.
I see absolutely zero difference between wildlife of any kind and humans.
Everything humans do is essentially the same as those more primitive life forms.
Everything. Mums dote on their kids and protect them as if it were their own lives. Just look at the way animals go mental if their young are threatened. Wouldn't a mother protect her baby as if it were her own life. Isn't this programmed?
Puma's, bears, snow leopards, deer, endless list of animals/mammals, spend so much of their time training their offspring to fend for themselves ie, showing them how catch fish etc... whatever.
Humans spend a lot of time and money putting their kids through education, hoping they go to the best school etc....and that is all inspired to help us survive as a species, even though we might think we're behaving that way for our own selfish purposes.
All of this human behaviour is EXACTLY the same kind of behaviour you see in the animal kingdom, is it not ?
Therefore I don't any difference whatsoever between humans as a species and any other living organism on the planet , essentially. The fact we're the most intelligent is an utterly trivial difference.
Unless someone can show that all life on this planet goes to heaven or even hell, I can't see how we might be singled out to live for eternity, while other species die and even become extinct.
In fact I would say, humans are most intelligent as a direct result of a innate survival instinct that works to our benefit and survival.
