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Mr Baragwanath.

You asked three questions to atheists. Here are my answers. It’s kind of pointless to do this but I will do it anyways, because I am a charitable guy.

1.     If a plane full of Atheists is falling out the sky, who is the first being that they will turn to in Prayer? 

Seriously?? Why do you assume to know that in a life and death situation the first thing people would do is pray?? What about the people that just accept the circumstances around them and embrace the end. What about the people that send messages to their loved ones that the end is near and this is their last message.

Even if an atheist does say a silent prayer to be safe, it does not in any way mean that because we choose to not believe in god that we cannot have hope for a future with a better outcome.

You are saying that just because someone says a prayer that is means they either secretly believe in a higher power, or that one must exist. This may in fact not be the case. When things are bad we all hope and pray for a better future irrespective of what we believe in. That is called human nature.

2.      Why do Atheists feel the need to go to such lengths to disprove the existence of God or any other deities for that matter?

For the same reasons that Jews hate Muslims, that Christian have killed in the crusades and that every other horrendous act that has ever been committed in the name of God. Like you we are human, and because of that we feel the unscrupulous need to tell you that what you believe in is total hogwash. But that’s only part of the reason. Here is the full gist.

Atheism is the result of rebelliousness, which naturally comes about when those in power force it down your throat that all of your ideas about the universe and every wonderful thing in life like sunsets, chocolates, kisses and love are the result of a universal being who gets his kicks from making fathers kill their sons just to show him that they are loyal, and that everyone who does not want to be a part of his team is an infidel and should be burned.

So some brave souls decided to question those in power and found that they could prove that things like sunsets could be explained with some observation, imagination and a wonderful thing call maths. And like all good stories when the main character finds out that the powerful overlords were wrong about the earth being flat they went and created a team, which they call team Science. Whose sole goal was to find out what other little lies were being shoved down our throats???

And team science got very very good at this. Because they eventually found a way of testing all the little lies through a method called the scientific method.

Then one day a master came along his name was Charles. Charles goes on a boat across the world and realizes that there is a method to the madness of creation, Which he called evolution.

There is a lot more to this wonderful tale but I think you get the point. The point is truth and beauty. All knowledge should always be tested for validity, and if it cannot be proved valid it should be discarded. So unless you have a method of proving your  theory of a universal being, then have it peer reviewed and then be awarded a Nobel prize for it, the Atheists are going nowhere.

We do not kill to prove we are right, and we don’t go about starting wars either, in the name of Darwin, or Galileo or Newton. We choose to prove we are right by actually thinking about the world around us. So deal with it.

3.    How is it that you can put so much faith in the belief that all of creation came about from a giant explosion and the formation of single cell, and yet you cannot put faith into the FACT that God does indeed exist?  

First you need to understand something, the big bang theory and evolutionary theory are held in high esteem because nobody has managed to give a sufficient argument (with reasonable proof) for any other mechanisms at work. Like many things in science these ideas will hold until they do not. This is the power of science, and it is called honesty.

Because we are honest with ourselves and we embrace the uncertainty we know that we do not have all the answers, but the fun is in finding out. One day the big bang theory may be disproved, evolution may be disproved, and when that happens we will have a big party, with balloons and marshmallows, and then we will set out to figure out why. Why do these new theories work? Why did the old ones fail? Maybe there are other theories out there that may also explain how the universe works, if so then the question is WHY?? 

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