User talk:SouthWriter/sandbox/An atheist's objections/@comment-1777104-20100706033108

McG,Giving straight answers is in no way claiming superiority. The questions are poorly framed, showing no knowledge of the original texts of scripture OR the full implications of genetic science. If the questioner had looked at the context of the scripture he sited, he would have known that Jesus' body was claimed by an official, and thus was not treated as a common criminal (aside from the fact that Pilate and Herod BOTH knew he was not guilty). In the case of the "metaphorical" command, it is clear that in context, the man was indeed expected to follow through.

The questions dealing with Adam and Eve, racial distinctives and population dispersal were all questions easily answered with a rudimentary understanding of the real science of genetics. The evolutionist's best arguments -- mutations in genetic material over time -- fall apart if they apply simple observation to genetics.

Question # 5, asking why God who has no beginning would "wait" so long to create the world, is simply bad logic (even if he had the approx. time span right). If God is able to make anything He wants, whenever He wants, then why should our universe HAVE to take a long time.

If such questions as these were all it took to sway a teenager away from his family's faith, then there was no "faith" in the teenager to begin with. That is to say, there was no TRUST in the God who is said to have created the world.

Technically, people do not "become" atheists in the way we think. Atheism as a belief system is a determination to self-governance, a selfish denial of what is understood by the "untrained" mind that all that is came about as a plan. Certainly many atheists have "bad experiences" with religion and turn away in disgust, but most of them admit they know what "true" religion is "supposed to be." Then they turn on the "hypocrites" (humans like them that are inconsistent).

That being said, a vast number of people are "agnostics," not able to intellectually understand that which is beyond understanding, and thus refusing to consider it. These people are, by default, atheists as well -- at least until they are willing to look beyond their own limits. And to complicate matters even more, people who believe "in" God live as "practical atheists." That is, they live as if God does not exist.