I'm an Atheist and I have been pondering this morning about religion, I understand people having faith, people?

That would indeed be a ridiculous idea - but that's not what atheists think. Atheists just don't believe that there's a god. That's it.

What IS a ridiculous idea is that a deity exists. Most atheists, and now most Christians, agree that evolution is the truth and that the whole 'creation' story is just an allegory. And evolution explains that humans and monkeys and apes all evolved from a common ancestor - which can be proven.

I do hope you have many years of education ahead of you! What are you so afraid of that you ignore the truth?! Primates are mammals that include lemurs, monkeys, apes and humans.

The Strepsirrhini, or “wet-nosed” primates, which include lemurs and lorises, branched off around 63 million years ago. Old World monkeys and apes divided from New World monkeys about 40 million years ago. Aegyptopithecus zeuxis, which probably resembles the common ancestor of New World monkeys and apes, lived about 29 million years ago.

The apes split from Old World monkeys about 25 million years ago. Humans and chimpanzees diverged 5-7 million years ago. Of the macaque's nearly 3 billion DNA base pairs, 93.5 per cent are identical to those in the human genome.

This is not unexpected for a species whose lineage diverged from our own about 25 million years ago. The human and chimp genomes, which diverged just 6 million years ago, are about 98 per cent identical. One puzzling discovery is that several mutations that cause genetic diseases in humans - such as phenylketonuria and Sanfilippo syndrome, which lead to mental retardation - are the normal form in macaques and, presumably, our own ancestors.

So on each split the original got left behind to stay as it was! The first true hominid has been shown to almost certainly arrived in the Great Rift Valley but as a product of evolving from it's monkey and ape ancestry! In many ways trying to deny these facts is worse than the creationinsts fantasies!

Both show a desire to ignore the truth! Which extremist sect or cult indoctrinated you to believe that God was not clever enough to use the big bang, evolution and science as his tools? The Pope, Catholic Church, Church of England and mainstream churches all accept the big bang and evolution!

Lord Carey the former Archbishop of Canterbury put it rather well – “Creationism is the fruit of a fundamentalist approach to scripture, ignoring scholarship and critical learning, and confusing different understandings of truth”! Nice that Christians and atheists can agree and laugh together but sadly at God’s expense!

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.