Mark_Chid

An attempt to explain my position to those Christians who seem incapable of understanding it:

The reason I am an atheist is that 'God' explains nothing. It seems to be that all theism does is roll all the questions it can't answer into one big ball and files it under 'God did it' or 'God's mysterious purpose' - these 'answers' are almost the same as saying 'I don't know' but are in fact worse that that because they say 'i don't know and I refuse to look any further for answers'.

The fact is that throughout history mankind has continually found answers to questions that were once dismissed with 'God did it' - we now understand weather, the seasons, reproduction and many other 'mysteries' of the ancient world. Yet Christians STILL say 'There are questions you haven't yet answered, therefore God did it'.

The only question that we will probably never answer wothout reference to a God is the original 'Why' of the universe BUT if we use God to answer this then THE SAME QUESTION must be asked about God, otherwise nothing has been answered at all.

The conclusion is that in the absence of proof, God adds nothing to our understanding of the universe, He/She/It merely lumps together all the 'don't knows' under 'can't know'. Therefore I act on the assumption that since I can't see, hear, smell or taste God, and since God's existence has no explanatory power I will behave as if god is non-existent.

This is exactly the way Christians think about giant invisible Chipmunks - you can't prove they are not there, but there's no evidence of them, they explain nothing and there's no logical necessity for their existence, so you assume they are not real. Why, I ask is this a reasonable viewpoint on giant invisible Chipmunks buty not on God?