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The number of religious 'nones' has soared, but not the number of atheists. Why?

5 points| baddash | 1 year ago |theconversation.com

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throwitaway222|1 year ago

I don't accept the written narrative by the people that wrote the bible. Did Jesus exist, probably, but I have a hard time with the words about what happened, given that people are... people.

But I have a harder time thinking that even over a period of billions of years DNA can suddenly exist and do what it does - let alone for the physics of it all to allow all this to happen, and allow private thinking, etc... I don't think this is designless.

mrkeen|1 year ago

One of these 'sudden existences' was reported here just a couple of weeks ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40101290

And you can't opt out of "something from nothing" thinking - you have to choose between "DNA from nothing" or "intelligent DNA-designer from nothing".

beardyw|1 year ago

Since atheists became antitheists.

I was an atheist, but had no issues with my children becoming Christians. I think today's atheists think they need to be Richard Dawkins.

mrkeen|1 year ago

I can scarcely think of a person less likely to take up arms than Richard Dawkins, and yet somehow people feel free to take his words and label him a "militant atheist".

01HNNWZ0MV43FF|1 year ago

"Atheist" got a bad rap. Many adjectives live on their own little euphemism treadmills.