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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I always wonder why atheists ask for proof of spiritual things.  There isn't proof, that is why we call it "faith."  If it was proven, faith would be paltry.  I am not looking for proof.

They said it best in "oh brother where art thou"...everybody's looking for answers.  I don't have any answers for you.  I do believe the incredible complexity that is life and space is a manifestation of God, who is infinite.  The cosmos only makes sense when you have some faith, because the answers just keep changing as the concept of infinite gets larger and more complex.[/quote]

For you, what part of the cosmos is only explained by faith? Because I have yet to come across anything that is so overly complex that I need some mystical way to explain it. 
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just think of the sheer unlikelihood of our very existence.  It's pretty awe-inspiring.

But I don't think there are any conflicts between science and Christianity as I believe it.

Also, I am always puzzled as to the logic behind atheism.  I deeply respect agnostics because I think the big questions are really hard but by its nature, a divine power is hard to affirmatively disprove.  it seems like the scientific mind would say "it appears very unlikely, but I can't rule it out."  Thus agnosticism.

I feel like atheists are buying into the anti-scientific religious paradigm by allowing them to frame the terms of the discussion.[/quote]

It sounds like you don't understand what atheism is.  Perhaps you got a wrong impression from a religious person who told you that atheists know there is no no god. (Thus making them sound irrational)  No one can know about supposed beings that can't be seen, with "god" as an example.  Other examples are angels, demons, fairies, etc.  Atheists don't believe in these things.  Agnostics generally don't either, but agnosticism focuses on lack of knowledge rather than lack of belief.

When I think of the sheer unlikelihood of our existence, I don't immediately leap to "God did it."  I think that it's something, like so many other things in the world, that we don't understand yet.  Maybe science will someday explain it, the way it has explained so many other things that were once attributed to God. [/quote]

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