Atheism is a very, very narrow thing.

[MineralMan]

88. We have plenty of evidence of the effect of time on our lives.

Time, as a concept, can be complicated. As we experience it, however, it is quite simple, really. Our lives can easily be measured in terms of time, and generally are. For example, my parents are both 94 years old. Sadly, their lives are nearly over. They know that. I know that. Their medical professionals know that. While nobody knows exactly how much longer they will live, clearly they are approaching the end of life. I am experiencing that phenomenon as their 73-year-old son. Like them, I am aware of the finiteness of life in terms of time.

We have no evidence of any continuation beyond death. None whatsoever. Logic says that the end is the end, and that our time is up at that point. Between birth and death, a variable period of time elapses. One can divide that period into decades, years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, or even seconds. Those divisions might affect our experience of time, but not the actual time we have as living beings.

From an external viewpoint, each life has a beginning and an end. And there it is. Beyond that, we have no evidence to suggest that there is anything more than that. Rational, logical people understand that and accept it without too much trouble, generally. My parents do, I know. I talk to them every day, and will see them next week when I travel to California for a week.