Are you an Atheist?
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I say that atheism requires faith because everywhere one turns, one encounters the shrill cry of design. It's deafening really. From human consciousness to the code in molecular life... design. To avoid this logical inference, one must concoct all manner of statistically improbable (impossible) scenarios in a vain attempt to explain away this design.
For some reason, it's harder for me to swallow that life sprang from non-life, by non-living mechanisms, and developed into all we know today, than believing that it's all the result of the animals on an ark.
[btw: the pairs of animals in the biblical ark account are called generic "kinds" in the literal Hebrew which would mean limited speciation into all of the kingdoms of animals would have occurred. Which actually harmonizes quite well with the fossil record]