First I want to apo. apolo, apologize... if this topic isn't new! I AM new to this site...
What the hell is an atheist? I HATE the term. It tries to define me in terms of what I'M NOT! So, I don't believe in god. Well, I don;t believe in the Tooth Fairy or the Easter Bunny either! I think we need a new way to present ourselves to the world out there (NO, not the BRIGHTS, which is extraordinarily ARROGANT, misconceived, and plainly DUMB!)
What do I mean when I say I'm an atheist?? What I really want to say here, is that I have looked at the world out there, and that I have seen no evidence WHATSOEVER of any kind of god, or any kind of "funny things going on"'.
What did I find? Well, I found quite a few things that science successfully explained (at least, roughly). I also found MANY, MANY things that science hasn't a clue how to deal with...
I accept that. I realize that our brains are not necessarily optimized to understand that "whole world out there". Actually, I accept the fact that, even our very distant descendants, 1 million years from now, will STILL not be able to "understand " it all How could they??? We can't even understand our own mathematics (Goedel) or BASIC physics (Heisenberg).
After all, we are part of the system we're trying to understand. So, it's no wonder we can't REALLY get to the crux of the matter.
I ACCEPT THAT!
Now, what do we do given all that uncertainty? I can take it, but, given the present state of human's evolution, most don't seem able to do so...
(Just my humble thoughts... Sorry, if I offend some...)