It is an unfortunate fact that Religion has perverted human history, development and science. It is both contradictory and dangerous.
I understood that there is something we can't explain now and this something is closely bound up with religion. How atheists can explain this and many others signs? Rejecting religion, atheists show their ignorance and incapability to comprehend the diversity of the universe, including religion as one of its aspects.
There is nothing we cannot understand indifinitely. Once, people said lightning was created by zues, simply because they lacked a scientific explanation for it. They said earthquakes were caused by Hades, also because they lacked explanations. Instead of stating, that they do not know why it happened and trying to find out the causes, they place it all ignorantly on a superior being. Your argument holds out the same, 3000 years ago, people asked non-believers what does 'lightning' mean, how can the non-believer explain lightning. Following religions faulty logic, since no one could explain it means Zues exists. Today people laugh at their ignorance, and arrogantly make the same mistakes. People assign meanings to natural occurences. For example, the 2004 tsunami that hit Eastern Indo-China, was blamed by the uneducated people living there that it was Gods punishment for the sins of the world. They couldn't comprehend that it was just a tsunami, created by tremors through earths plate tectonics. However, should we have lacked the scientific basis of plate tectonics, religion would waste no time spreading ignorance among the people saying it was Gods work. Whenever something new happens, it is the scientists that say they do not understand, but wish to do so and thus begin researching. Religion pronounces it knows it was the work of God.
At the religious point of view, yes, because any natural phenomenon, including a rain, is a god's deed. :) The universe is governed by laws. You can call it Gods deed, but it is no more Gods deed than the wind blowing, or water being created from Hydrogen and Oxygen atoms. There are laws which can never be broken. You cannot defy gravity. You can pray all you want, the book will always fall to earth when you let go. One would think that an omniscient God would be able to go against mere laws he created. Apparently not. Be you theist, be you atheist, if you have no desire for knowledge, for understanding then nothing will help you. If it has been as you said, there would be no discoveries, no inventions, there would be no math, no physics, there would be nothing because in ancient times there were no atheists. Theists believe that God created all, that evolution is false, and the contemporary argument of the theologists is that the earth is less than 10,000 years old. Disregarding all science and evidence, they defend their point of view simply because it is written in their holy book (which was written by humans). In ancient times, there may not have been any atheists, but neither were their theists blindly holding to their limited faith. Greek religion did not prohibit people from explaining that the earth revolved around the sun, nor did it hinder other areas of research such as contemporary religions do. There were no central churches that told people what to believe, Zues did not exist because churches spread his name, he existed simply because it was common sense at the time that he existed. Common sense today tells us that he does not. Do you believe in Zues? Hades? Aries? Amon Ra? Anubis? Thor? Krom? Gilgamesh? Yahweh? Allah? The only difference between me and you, is that I don't believe in one extra God. Yours. If you understand why you denounce all other Gods in favour of your own, you will understand why others denounce your God.
Also incase it was missed, the majority of scientists are indeed atheist, or practice Einsteinian Atheism. "To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin." — Cardinal Bellarmine (1615, during the trial of Galileo).
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