Thanatos
Senior Member
To a point your are somewhat right. The deciding factor for me is that when I take all available evidence for both sides and I take all the newest information that continually is found and I factor in actual facts I make my choice by actual factual evidence.
Now I am not saying all the information on the side I choose it 100%...yet, but over the years of human advancement we have constantly been making progress in science while the old religious tales have been not holding their own. Faith vs Facts. No problem for a "believer" to look past one to the other for he wants/needs to be right, but please do not insert magical invisible friends to try to explain gaps in what science is slowly but surely figuring out.
Man! It is convenient that these little beings were placed (or evolved right?) in the perfect PLACE and TIME in the history of our universe to study WHERE and WHEN we are in it. Then, we sit there and use that data to try and disprove that we are here for no reason at all. It just "happened". Irony at it's best...or worst. I urge you to read the book Privileged Planet. Someone posted an agnostic's book review and the review was heavily slanted toward their Godless perspective of their existence rather than an actual review. Even if you do not want to subscribe to the theories in that book there is a LOT of good scientific data in it. In fact I will buy it for you and send it to you if you will read it. PM me your address if you are interested. Same goes to Asasth.