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Scientific Reasons Behind Atheism

Most theistic religions teach that mankind and the universe were created by one or more deities. Many people, including both atheists and theists, feel that this view is in blatant conflict with modern science, especially evolution. For some atheists this conflict is one reason they reject theism. Some theists draw the opposite conclusion from the same conflict, and reject evolution in favor of creationism, despite the essentially complete consensus about evolution among scientists. Other theists accept that evolution happened and do not believe that there is a conflict.

Evolutionary science, supported by a large body of palentological and genomic evidence and accepted by the overwhelming majority of biologists, describes how complex life has developed through a slow process of random mutation and natural selection, and that the human race is merely one species among others, one of many random products of this stochastic process. It is now known that humans share 98% of our genetic code with chimpanzees, 90% with mice, 21% with roundworms, and 7% with the bacterium E. coli.

This humbling perspective is quite different from that of most theistic religions, which give humans a unique and central status; in the Abrahamic religions, for instance, humans are thought to be created "in God's image" and to be a qualitatively different thing from the "beasts of the Earth". Similarly, the facts that Earth's Sun is only one undistinguished star among billions in the Milky Way, which itself is merely one undistinguished galaxy among billions of others, and that modern humans have existed at all for only 0.0015% of the age of the universe, are seen by some atheists as rendering implausible the proposition that this universe was created (by some deity) with mankind in mind.

More fundamentally, western science is based on the assumption that the universe is governed by unchanging natural laws that can be determined by experiments and used as a reliable basis for prediction and engineering, which assumes the absence of divine interference. The success of modern science and engineering would thus arguably imply that deities are either absent or at least take a rather hands-off approach to the world. Many atheists feel that the simplest explanation is that there are no deities.

Bible is the word of God?

Or is it even inspired by God? I don't think so because God - assuming there is - is not the author of confusion, and the full Bible is confusing and contradicting to itself, this may be an old debate that still needs to be clarified:


"For his (God's) anger endureth but a moment"
Psalms 30:5

Contradicted by:

"and the lord's anger was kindled against Israel and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years"
Numbers 32:13

"God is not a mar, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent"
Numbers 23:19

Contradicted by:

"and the Lord repented that he made Saul king over Israel "
Samuel 15:35

Also:

"and the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people"
Exodus 32:14

"For the Lord is good; and his mercy is Everlasting"
Psalms 100:5

Contradicted by:

"I (God) remember that which Amalek did to Israel (four hundred years before)... Now go and smite Amalek and utterly destroy all they have, and spare them not, but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling ox and sheep, camel and ***"
1 Samuel 15:3

"(God) dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see"
1 Timothy 6:16

Contradicted by:

"Then spoke Solomon, the Lord said that he would dwell in the thick Darkness"
1 Kings 8:12

"For God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man"

James 1:13

Contradicted by:

"And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham"
Genesis 22:1

"For God is not the author of confusion"
1 Corinthians 14:33