| FootballFan said: As a scientist I have to look towards evidence. From a religious viewpoint that evidence is lacking and offers few explanations. I guess it is comforting to believe that god will protect you from evil and the world is in his safe hands and everything. In addition heaven is a nice thing to tell your children when your best friend has just being murdered by a axe weilding maniac. Can people answer the following questions? Why does an all loving god create hell for the poorest people? Why does an all powerful god punish people in the forms of natural disasters? Why does an all knowing god not prevent illness and disease from striking the innocent? If every creation needs a creator then what created god? Why is it there a correlation between believing in god and being educated?
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There can be no good without suffering, or some such thing. Besides, the God in the Bible is hardly "all-loving".
That said, I am also an atheist. If we'd just said "It was god!" to every single question which arose from humanity's curiosity, science wouldn't exist. Does God make the apple fall from the tree, or gravity? Does God create stars, or are they formed from the debris of supernovae? 90% of the questions we still have will probably be able to be explained by science in the future, and the other 10% have no answer at all.
It's only the question of "why" that really requires God to formulate an answer, but that is one of the 10%.
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