does atheist belive in adam and eve?
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Even Christians don’t believe in Adam and eve!!\nSeriously, an atheist is a person that doesn’t believe in the existence of God or Gods. Therefore they also don’t believe in religious myths such as the Hebrew myth of Adam and Eve.\n(Of course they fear death as everybody else!!!  I have personally met Christians who were terrified to die and tried desperately to hold on!!!)
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The dictionary definition for ATHEIST is a person that does not believe in God. That doesn't necessarily mean that all atheists believe in nothing. I'm an atheist & I believe in things that can give me evidential proof e.g. the prior existence of dinosaurs for example, but I do not believe in anything religious.
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Actually it depends on what you believe in. some say Adam and eve because they are relegious. but it depends
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how can you beleive in a god when there is absolutely no proof no shred nothing at all to proof he exists except exerpts of him written in a book from a time when man still beleived the earth was flat??? what's to beleive anyways? that mary gave birth without having a male on top of her?...sorry...she was no virgin....that Noah built an ark and had all of the species on his boat for 40 days and 40 nights?....plus all the food to sustain them?....sh*t....we don't even have the technology to do that now....that Adam and Eve had children and then their children mated with each other and that they mated with their children in order to populate the world?...that god wasn't pleased with his creation of man?....that this almighty creator created a imperfect being?....like I said....what is there to believe?...oh...and to kingsroad....you are the one lying to yourself and everybody else if you think that....I did as a child....I am not going to lie about that....but I grew up and gained some wisdom....I studied the bible as well....it's full of bs....and it contradicts itself so many times throughout it how could you beleive seriously??....I find it ignorant that people do believe in god....and I don't lie because I have absolutely no reason to....don't sit there and tell people that everybody beleives in god because they don't.....you are the one lying
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i think, i mean if you think about it, Adam and Eve were the forst humans, and if they had babys, the there babys had babies, and so on, so you would think, but im not positive.
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God made himself evident in creation, only a fool says "there is no God"..truth be told the atheist do believe there is a God or at one time had, they turned their back on him for one reason or another. BTW Satan believes there is a God too and he shudders. Now you know
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I believe that a literal interpretation of Genesis is ignorant.  I believe that Genesis is a Christian mythology and I have scholars on my side.  The whole creation story is symbolic.  When it was written, we didn't have science to explain how the earth or its inhabitants were created, so the writer had to explain it in a way that people living at the time would understand.  The Adam and Eve story, I believe is symbolic of emerging societies.  Adam and Eve living in paradise are symbolic to small nomadic groups of people living apart from each other.  They are kicked out of paradise when nomadic groups began to experience conditions that threatened their survival - hot sun, cold winters and learned about the fragility of life and death.  They had two children, Cain and Able - this symbolizes the population getting larger and when Cain killed Able, this is symbolic for fighting and wars between individuals and groups of people with differing ideas.
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You are right, you are confused about atheists, you also have a very funny idea about what belief entails... \n\nAtheists have belief in evidenced things with proof, however blind faith of the religious kind requires no proof or evidence that is why it is called faith, if there was evidence for God it wouldn't require faith to believe in God. \n\nOne of the problems with blind faith is that you can believe almost anything through it, God, The Celestial Teapot, The Flying Spaghetti Monster, Vanilla Flavoured Fairies or anything that cannot be proved or disproved, this invalidates blind faith as a tool of knowledge.\n\nThe onus is always on the person or organisation making a claim to provide proof or evidence for it. When there is no way to test the truth of the claim because of a lack of proof or evidence it is called unfalsifiable.\n\nI have no beliefs about God I simply do not share the theists belief in the existence of God/Gods, I have no reason to think that a God exists and it is not hypocritical for me as an atheist to say so. Hope this explains it a bit better for you.
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Firstly, thanks for asking this question.  I've probably answered it about twenty times already, but i think you're the first person I've seen with an actual interest in the answer.\n\nYou're asking two questions here.\n1) What proof do we have that God does not exist?\n2) Isn't evolution just a theory and not a fact?\n\nBoth of these questions touch on a more fundamental question:\n"Why do atheists believe what they believe?"  I'd like to address that question first, because it will make it easier to answer the other two.\n\nI can't speak for all atheists (I'm actually agnostic), but many attempt to base their beliefs in scientific reasoning.  Modern science is based on the facts that human knowledge is limited and human perception is faulty.  All the tools that scientists use to discern the truth (falsifiablility, replication, lab controls, measuring devices, statistical analysis, the scientific method of inquiry, etc.) are all designed specifically to limit errors in human perception.  \n\nNonetheless, mistakes are made and scientists are often wrong.  That's why scientific belief is pliable.  You may hear people talk about "margin of believe" and "index of suspicion".  Basically, these terms represent the degree of belief, which varies with experience.  For instance, I have a high index of suspicion that the sun will rise tomorrow.  There is the slightest possibility that it won't.  Based on historical records, mathematical calculations, and what we know of the natural world, it's a good bet that it will.  Similarly, I have a high margin of disbelieve in the theory that aliens abduct cows on Earth.  There is a very small possibility, but it's very unlikely.\n\nWhen we consider a belief's worth, we're really just raising or lowering our margin of disbelief.  Generally speaking, most beliefs are given an "a priori" possibility of 50%.  Evidence that does not support the belief (it fails to conform to theories that we already have good reasons to believe, it is internally inconsistent, it violates known natural laws, it fails to explain certain phenomenon within its scope, it doesn't make accurate predictions, etc.) raises our margin of disbelief.  Evidence that supports the belief (it makes accurate predictions, it's reproducible, it supports existing theories and known natural laws, etc.) lowers our margin of disbelief.   Once the margin of disbelief is high enough, we can treat the belief as an untruth for practical purposes.  (Bigfoot ate my baby.)  If our margin of disbelief becomes low enough, we can treat the belief as fact.  (My car still has gas in its tank).  Basically, not all beliefs are created equal.  We should have more faith in beliefs with lots of evidential support, and less faith in beliefs with little evidence to back them up.  Conversely, we should doubt beliefs that the available evidence doesn't support.\n\nContrary to what many atheists say, it is possible to prove a negative and prove negative existence.  Assume that I state that you have no quarters in your pockets, then force you to turn out your pockets.  If there are no quarters in there, I have proven (within the limits of perception) negative existence.  The problems with disproving the existence of God are matters of definition and perception.  I can say that there is no god in your pocket and show it to you.  You could reasonably respond that God is invisible and we can't see him.  It all depends on how we define "God" and how powerful our ability to "see" him is.\n\nSpeaking specifically of the the Judeo-Christian god, we can say that it is very unlikely that it exists.  The existence of an omnipotent intelligence defies the Law of Conservation of Energy.  The concept that the universe was created out of nothing defies the Law of Conservation of Matter.  These laws, together, establish the basis for all of physic
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Yes, Buddhism is atheistic as it has no god figure. Buddha is viewed only as a prophet and their view of reincarnation is controlled by a universal force, not a conscious being.
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It would be more correct to say that atheists do not think God is real.
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I am sure many atheists are stoics, since atheists simply do not believe in God. and stoics believe that virtue and happiness are obtained through destiny and natural law - there is no clash.\n\nMany unknowingly are stoics!!!
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Yes (in a sense)...\n\nI used to be an atheist. Over a period of time however, I grew convinced of the existence of the Christian God, and ultimately committed my life to Christ. \n\nFor a draft-version of my journey from atheism to Christ, see http://www.godsci.org/gs/chri/testimony/seek.html\n\nCordially,\nJohn
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No, once you start believing in a god, you stop being an atheist. Knowing that god doesn't exist is the definition of atheism. An atheist could still have a religion, though. Buddhists, for example. An atheist might believe in other supernatural things, besides god. Usually not, though. Atheists don't think that religion doesn't exist, if that's what you mean. That would be stupid. I'm perfectly aware of the existance of religion, I just find it pointless.
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yes\n\nThe Doctor of the Atheist Revolution has Spoken!
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atheist are fools!!\n\nthat's what the bible says about them. \n\nThe fool says in his heart, "There is no God." (Psalm 53:1) and this is said again in Psalm 14:1 The fool says in his heart, "There is no God."\n\nit's not a matter of intelligent design, it's foolish not to believe in God the Lord Almighty.\n\nif you say that atheist believe what they see, then what Paul wrote in Romans is true...\n\nFor although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.(Romans 1:21-23)\n\nindeed, 'Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools'\n\nlook...you atheist, you can not see the air but that does not stop you from breathing. so, stop this foolishness. you perceive the air and you breathe...perceive also that God exists and believe.\n\nTake heed, you senseless ones among the people; you fools, when will you become wise? (Psalm 94:8)\n\nIn the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent. (Acts 17:30)
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It is not a pre-mature assumption on your part.\n\nThe Atheists here are the great and powerful Oz, they know all.\n\nI am being sarcastic, of course...They do not know all, they only wrongly assume that they do.