| Jay520 said: Athiest: Has full belief that there is no god. Thiest: Has full belief that there is a god. Agnostic: Believes that there is not enough evidence to have full belief in either of the above. |
A thousand times this.
I identify as agnostic, not as atheist. A lot of people use atheist as an umbrella term for both atheists and agnostics, but this is inaccurate.
As for the OP's questions/comments
"They do it as they believe in the modern culture and want to be a part of it.Many also do it as they think themselves to be knowledgeable being one as alot of scientist call themselves atheist."
A lot of scientists are theists as well. Einstein, who is probably the person in all of history that I have the most respect for, both as a scientist and as a person, was a theist.
"Alot of people who call themselves atheist think of the big bang as creation but never question it which itself means that you are not an atheist and think that the day we die the world ends for us and we will be no more than stardust."
This is a question I have pondered a decent amount, and (obviously) I have come to no conclusion. There is a significant amount of evidence to support the big bang (such as cosmological background radiation). There is unfortunately no evidence as to what caused the Big Bang. I am afraid that this is likely something that I will never know, which does sadden me to some degree.
The problem here is that atheist mainly go according to the order of the things in our world and how we give material things so much importance.We never realize the consciousness that is at play and if the order of things was correct then life has to reincarnate as that will be the cycle.
There have been many times throughout history when people have presented ideas or theories, where one of the major reasons behind them was a feeling on neatness, completion or correctness. The Aether, people's refusal to accept quantum mechanics, and the history of models of the solar system/universe and the atom are the best examples I can think of offhand. I would argue that it is not necessary for a universe to be cyclical. Regardless, there are some very widely considered models of the universe that are cyclical. In the main of these theories, the universe expands in the big bang. As it expands it loses energy, and the mass starts to pull itself together. The expansion of the universe that we are currently observing would slow, and then reverse. Everything would be pulled together. The impact of such a collision would provide the universe with enough energy for another big bang, ad inifinitum.
So please tell us in detail what it means to be an atheist and how is life supposed to be functional without reincarnation or how it just continues to be how it is.
Life does not need to be cyclical to function, or to be beautiful. You may or may not be reincarnated. You may or may not experience immortality in the afterlife. The only thing you can guarentee is this life you are living right now. All the atheist asks is that people enjoy the life they are living, and help others to enjoy the lives they lead.
I am a tiny, insignificant, ignorant lump of carbon.
I have one life, and it is short
And unimportant…
But thanks to recent scientific advances
I get to live twice as long as my great great great great uncles and auntses.
Twice as long to live this life of mine
Twice as long to love this wife of mine
Twice as many years of friends and wine
- Tim Minchin
