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For the same reason that elves in Lord of the Rings used to live for hundreds of years and today's elves don't live that long.

Really? I was under the impression that people rarely reached 40 years of age until about a hundred years ago. That is only if we take reality into account, of course.

Do you mean that everything that will happen from now on has already happened sometime in the past in the exact same way? I guess that if this were to be true, we would have at least some kind of evidence of these events, which again I don't think is the case. I can think of many possible...

This is certainly true for the macroscopic level, but not so for the atomic one. Quantum physics shows us that things can appear out of nothing through totally random processes. If the primeval universe was compressed to a very small size (the size of an atom), these processes would have been...

I don't think Kinsao and MikeCash are atheists...Actually, I'm pretty sure they are not. Don't you think that refusing to consider the idea that the writers of the bible actually intended a literal interpretation is closed minded too? Maybe they wrote such obvious myths because they simply...

Not everyone on this planet knows about god or "the way to salvation". Do you think someone born in a isolated island deserves eternal torture in hell even when he couldn't possibly know what "god" means in the first place? If god knew some people would not obey resulting in their suffering...

Atheism is important because theism is important. People who believe in elves are not the majority of the population, they don't dominate our government and society with their absurd and illogical ideas nor do their believes represent a threat to society's development and own survival...

The burden of proof rests upon the one making the claim, wich in this case is the theist. The old 'atheist in denial finds god' fundie tale. :okashii: Even in the very unlikely event that you didn't make this up, this doesn't really prove anything nor does it even qualify as an argument...

I know you didn't. Me too. And I agree with you. This is the essence of freethought, wich is generally incompatible with religious ideas (though not necessarily). It's amazing how people use Nazism to try to prove any point :D You're talking like these "experiments" were performed for the...

You are right, but I think this wasn't a 'common people' knowledge, and the church certainly didn't support the flow of information (I'm only talking about middle age). Anyway, what I was trying to say is that most 'scientific theories' that we find absurd nowadays were not really scientific at...

Relativist fallacy . Opinions are relative, facts are not. You seem to think scientific theories are either true or false, when in fact they are just more or less accurate descriptions of nature's workings. You also seem to to think that scientists are indoctrinated to buy into it, when in...

Actually, we already have pictures of atoms and its existence is just beyond reasonable doubt. What do you think pretty much all off Chemistry is based on? Magic? Besides, there's many other ways to prove without any doubt something exists other than seeing it. If you don't 'believe' this...

Could you please explain how could someone possibly complain about something they don't believe to exist in the first place?

Yes, and people who don't believe in the Loch Ness Monster and those who say they are the Loch Ness Monster are all pretty much the same group. *ends sarcasm* You might want to take a look at logical fallacies . :okashii:

Thanks for the links :cool: From the same Wikipedia page: What I understand by this is that Buddhism -by itself- is only a philosophy, while the various branches of it we have today are organizations that took that philosophy and added a set of rules and mythical elements, thus making it a...

I must admit that I don't know a lot about Buddhism, but it seems to me that it doesn't have any fixed set of rules like in western religions, but simply recommendations as to how to live. Because Buddhism has no dogmas, you can even question these recommendations and think for yourself to find...

Atheism by itself can't be a religion. That would be like saying bald is a hair colour or that "healthy" is a kind of disease. Like you said, there are some atheist religions, but they are much more like philosophies than a "real religion" in the western sense. Something I can't understand is...

What I'm trying to say is that being compassionate is totally possible, if not easier, when you are not religious. I think human beings are naturally caring about others in order to live in society, we don't need someone to teach us that. In other words, all the possible benefits religion can...

People can be happy with pretty much anything, but just believing something because it makes you happy is not very intellectually honest. This is just falling to the "ignorance is bliss" argument. Besides, someone who doesn't want to think about their own believes shouldn't be so eager to preach...

I'll make my first post here :wave: While I think religion can make some people happy, you have to remember that most religious people didn't exactly choose to believe, they were rather indocrineted by their family and/or society since their childhood (before the age of reason). So, they can't...