Atheists, if there is no God, why are you still alive?
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You asked, so here are the answers to all your questions:\n\n1. Plants, not God. Specifically phytoplankton for most of the oxygen. Research the carbon cycle and photosynthesis. Its a naturally stabilizing system, and I would love to explain how it works but will spare you the details on the assumption that you are capable of learning on your own.\n\n2. The laws of physics: the planet isn't about to suddenly stop or speed up! And what's so special about 365 and 24? Who is to say that life couldn't have evolved to fit, say, 36 and 512? Incidentally, the human body happens to follow a 25 hour cycle instead of 24 if deprived of visual clues like clocks and brightness.\n\n3. Don't know. Who or what started God? Its like asking if the chicken came before the egg either way. And please don't tell me that the appearance of an intelligent force is any less ridiculous than the appearance of a whole bunch of matter/energy.\n\n4. Synthesized from pure energy in the aftermath of the big bang, which just brings us back to 3. Once again, you can read more on the big bang and advanced physics if you feel the need, or use Yahoo to find explanations!
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I've thought seriously about this...and I believe the answer to this question is the same as "Is there a God?"\n\nNo living person can ever know the 100% true answer to this question, since the only way to know is if you are dead (therefore not living...)\nBut I would like to believe that a person knows if they are about to die (if they are terminally ill, for example).
572201
really? there is no god? OMG... what r we talking about?
611479
Because life is too hard a thing to deal with without the comforting idea of a higher power.\n\nWhat would be the explanation for suffering?\nWhat would be expected after death?\nWhat would be the sense of existence?\nWhat would moral be based on?\nHow would have everything begun?\n\nToo much for an average human to bear. \n\nThey prefer to deal with fantasies than to deal with reality. \n\nReality: \nSuffer has no explanation. \nLife is neutral. \nYou´re not going anywhere when you die, just fusion with the whole. \nNo one made us: we are just byproducts of the complex mesh that is called universe, and evolution, and natural selection. \nExistence, has no sense at all. \nMoral, will depend only on your sense of good and bad (actually very few atheists -if any- are amorals).\n\nTerrifying, isn´t it?\n\nThat´s why religious people would rather die than accepting the non-existence of their God.\n\nAnd that´s just fine! Childish though, in my point of view...\n\nGood question.
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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
476899
Because there is no God!
992604
This question was meant to be profound, but instead it's moot.  Atheist do not believe in miracles.
570057
Because there is no evidence of an afterlife I try to enjoy this one life as much as possible. Religion does not provide all the answers for me. Atheism does. So with that core belief in place I must live this life to the fullest. I've traveled to almost every Continent. I've skydove, hanglided, bungeed and hot air ballooned. I've driven a Ferrari 155 m.p.h. I've gambled lots of money. I've done drugs. I've frequented strip clubs and enjoyed pornography. I've volunteered at a soup kitchen and a homeless shelter. I've read the bible, the koran, the torah and budhist philosophies. I've been to China! I learned to juggle 5 objects at the same time(very difficult). I've sat by a swimming pool every day for six months and drank myself silly. I've gone to chuch, prayed to "God". I've watched TV for hours. I played basketball on the collegiate level. I played bass guitar in a rock n roll band. There is much more to come....\n\nIt fills the void. I wish that I could just close my eyes and have religious faith, but my experiences won't let me. My experiences tell me that when you die, you die. That's it. It's over. No one ever comes back. Not Huidini, not Elvis, not Jesus. So when I'm on my death bed I only want the knowledge that I did as much as I could with my one life. And just like everyone else when I die, my existence ends forever. Pretty scary thought, but religeon deals with that thought by saying "No it's not over, don't worry. Uhm follow us and you'll uhhh live forever! Yeah that's it, you never have to really die! Yea. you'll live forever! In the clouds!...That's why it's so popular. \n\nSo first, come to terms with the FACT that you're going to die and never live or see, or feel or taste that succulent Lobster dipped in butter again. Then go out and enjoy life and don't let the people who are in denial get in your way!\n\nEnjoy!
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God has given to all of us a measure of faith. Atheist chooses to believe there is no God, yet deep inside they knows better. That is one reason they are so concerned about christianity. Again all Atheist will not stay that way and some will be converted. Someday they will  see that a Holy God is nothing to play with.
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If God does not exist, how does that for one second make my life a lie?  If I found out that God did not exist, I would not feel stupid or tricked.  I would feel disappointed, but I think I'd be rather philosophical about it.  After all, I LIKE the life I lead.  It's not as though I suffer through it because I'm afraid of hell, and if I found out that God didn't exist, I don't think I would live all too much differently.  Unless you're suggesting that loving people and helping others has no merit?  You say that at least in hell you'd be surrounded by nice people, but try reading through your question again.  There's nothing nice in that.  Quite frankly, you're giving good atheists a bad name.
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There is no God! Remember that.
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Makes sense to me.\n\nActually...under that definition, I might be the only person here who ISN'T an atheist.\n\nWow. That's a strange thought...
851729
There is no God.\n\nNext question.
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I had an out of body experience... I was hit by a drunk driver and was in a coma. I was clinically dead in that coma which lasted 22 days. \n\nI went through a tunnel and there was light at the other end... hence I was still alive after my death... hence... there is a God... and all the atheists will find that out when it is too late to do anything about it. One bows one's knee now before the God of creation... or one will be forced to make that bow later... in great fear and trembling.
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Because no one ever told us to go out and convince other people that there is no god, otherwise they would go to hell forever. Since we don't believe in the consequences of a supernatural afterlife, we have no reason to go out of our way to convince others the same.
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There is no proof that a god exists which actually holds up (all of the ones that people have come up with so far have been knocked down).\n\nThere are however disproofs of the existance of some types of god which still hold.
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it may get depressing when u come to the fact that an atheist has no one to rely on for something like eventual salvation. a belief is a powerful thing even if its based on something false. it can give that reason to go on thinking u have a purpose. an atheist hasn't got that.