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@cernan
Atheism isn't a belief in nothing. It's the rejection of a belief in God(s)/theism.
your atheism [sic] advert should more accurately read as such.
"the belief that there was probably something (according to best evidence) and then something happened to this something (we are currently investigating this event) resulting in a fundamental change of state which changed the original something into the initial something. Fundamental laws settled into place pretty quickly which allowed the initial something to over time form the current something. Statistical chance and physical law governed this process and magic was not involved.
Reason and purpose had nothing to do with any of this process.
Most of it makes sense and we are working on the bits that don't and that's got to be better than the talking snake, right?"
I reckon that Ockham's razor has religion beat now, and "experimentation vs faith" will finish it off in the long run. Esp. now that neuroscience research groups are showing that you can expose people to electromagnetic fields and induce religious experience, angelic visions, conversations with the almighty etc. It would be a pretty sick joke if our global religions are the result of a sunstorm a couple of thousand years ago.