Fellow Atheists – What is the most common question posed to you when people find out you are an atheist?
I live in the UK and people here don’t really give a damn. Questions like ‘well, where did the universe come from then?’ is really an argument from severe scientific ignorance. I think an atheist can come to their views just from thinking how plausible it is that a magical sky-fairy made us out of some twisted loneliness and then send most of us to burn and hell because he loves us. I don’t mind those sorts of questions though because I love science and am happy to discuss stellar accretion disks, M-theory, the inflationary model and of course, evolutionary theory. Of course if someone believes in God, there’s a good chance they won’t understand my answers. The most common one on here is probably Pascal’s wager – with the watchmaker analogy a close second.
