Today is Ask An Atheist Day.

[LostOne4Ever]

54. Origin of the species is not our holy bible

Atheism is the lack of theism. All it means is that we lack a belief in any god(s)/goddess(es).

It has nothing to do with Evolution, or an after life, or any thing like that. It includes people who actively believe there are no gods (I personally call these people strong or explicit atheists), as well as people like myself who neither believe or disbelieve in any gods (I call this group weak or implicit atheists). Sometimes people call implicit atheists agnostics, but that is not completely correct. While an atheist can be an agnostic, not all agnostics are atheists.

My own disbelief has nothing to do with science but rather seeing all the horrors that happen in our world with no gods stepping in to help. Im of the opinion that if there was an OMNIPOTENT BENEVOLENT being watching over us he/she/they/it would step in and stop the rapes/murders/genecides/disease/tortures/etc. I accept that there might be beings we can not see who are not omnipotent or benevolent but its also possible there are not any. I don't know. So, since I have no belief in any god(s) this makes me an atheist.

I also have a strong dislike of MANY things in the bible, which is why I pretty much abandoned Catholicism as a teenager. I don't want to offend anyone so I won't go into that.

Evolutionary science might have convinced some people to become atheists, but that was not the case with me. I like evolution because as a kid Jurrasic Park came out and I was fascinated with the idea that dinosaurs might have evolved into the birds of today! Imagine, that Chicken might have a T-rex as a great great great....great grand-daddy!

I think evolution gets the link to atheism because the theory explained how all the different species of animals came about. But i dont know for sure. I do know that Deism was a lot more popular before Evolution came around.