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When I think of myself as an Atheist, I define it as not accepting any religion's concept of God.
As someone else pointed out, they all believe that their god exists, and that their religion is the only one that should be followed (speaking in very general terms). Most believe for the very simple reason that they were born and raised into the faith, and I think that's the reason why many faiths require that the children be taught at a very young age.
They can't all be right, and I consider them all equally wrong, in fact IMHO the very nature of the religion being organized invalidates it.
Now on the other hand, while evolution is simply the best theory we have right now, to a layman such as myself it just doesn't hold water. Random mutations caused life to evolve to the level of complexity we have, but with so many similarities at the same time?
Seems hard to believe that there wasn't some sort of intervention somewhere, but then you have the chicken and the egg quandry right? If we were created by aliens, who created them? Somewhere that evolution idea had to actually work, or there was a "God" somewhere sometime to start it all, even if what we're seeing now is the Nth domino falling from one long ago push that might have happened somewhere else in the universe.
So I'm saying that I don't have the answer. Furthermore NOONE has the answer.
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