Why do atheists continuously deny the overwhelming evidence for the existence of God?

You can interpret an event as having supernatural causes and call it a miracle. Or you can study the phenomenon and determine the natural processes and causes that were really behind it; and if you fail to do this, the default shouldn't be "It's a miracle" but "I don't know what caused it, at least not yet". I don't think the world or the universe or time or space or life or us were created.

Nor was there any purpose. And there might never have been such a thing as Nothing, although Stephen Hawking explains how particles/waves can spontaneously come into existence in his book The Grand Design, and Lawrence Krauss has also written a book called A Universe From Nothing. And I think that the religious idea of eternity, such as eternal life or a being that has existed from eternity and will exist into eternity is mistaken.

The potential for existence - not any particular form of existence - might always have been, and might always be. The universe formed following expansion and opening up of some spatial dimensions; and research is seeking answers about how the universe was some billionths of a second after the "big bang", notably the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. We might have to continue to have the humility to admit that we don't know everything for a very long time - perhaps forever; and I prefer this instead of hanging onto the kind of pride that won't admit we don't know it all and invokes supernatural beings, which I don't consider plausible.

The reason we're here living in the "Goldilocks Zone" ("Just right!"), talking about it is because this is one of the places and times in which we can exist. We were and are part of the universe, and we exist in it where and when we can. So our mental and instinctual mapping of reality, without special equipment and the benefit of theory and the higher mathematics employed by quantum physicists, would necessarily appear ordered; because we’re in the environment where we can be.

If the environment were different, the probability is that we just wouldn't be here. The universe is something around 13.7 billion years old, and is so immensely big on our scale that we can't imagine its size - and it's still expanding. It contains billions of galaxies, each containing billions of stars, at least some if not all of which have planets orbiting them.

So if anything can happen, the chances are a virtual certainty that at some place at some time, it has happened. And we're here at this time, because this is where and when we can be. If you extend this Anthropic Principle to the hypothesis about the Multiverse, of which our universe is one of billions, that makes the chances even more of a certainty.

So there doesn't have to be a reason for things existing, nor is there any need for supernatural beings of any kind, let alone God. Space, matter, energy and forces behave the way they do on their own. And life and evolution are part of that, as is the experience of Self which is a construct of the brain and our senses.

We're part of the universe, and we exist where and when we can. So our mental and instinctual mapping of reality, without special equipment and the benefit of theory and the higher mathematics employed by quantum physicists, would necessarily appear ordered; because we’re in the environment where we can be. The Prima Mobile or Prime Mover goes back at least to 13th Century Theology, such as Summa Theologica by Tomaso Aquino (St Thomas Aquinas) who said something like everything needs a cause until you trace all causes back to the first cause that needs no cause, and we call that God.

It seems to have been thought up to reflect Isaiah 57:15. To me the logic is fatally flawed - it assumes that despite all things needing a cause, there is an unexplained exception. Some also seem to have the concept that there's such a thing as "outside space and time".

Whether that can be explained in objective terms seems doubtful. It also seems to be meaningless. They also seem to think that the "big bang" needed a cause outside of itself, without considering what that means in theory and mathematically or whether it actually has any real meaning.

We probably all have the same sense of awe and wonder, since we're part of the same species. I just don't project that onto a mythical supernatural being. I also wonder how, if God existed eternally, He could have got around to creating things.

The point of creation would have been an eternity away; so He wouldn't ever have got to it.

1) We don't have a soul, the concept was invented by ancient people who also thought the brain was a useless piece of cheese and served no purpose and that our thoughts occurred in our heart. 2) You don't know your god is there. You're lying to us now.

You *think* it's there, but you don't know. 3) Even if Jesus existed all you have is hearsay about him being supernatural and performing miracles. No different than any other historical figure that had myths of grandeur and supernatural qualities surrounding them.

4) And all the Pharohs claimed they were incarnates of gods and ancient Pagans claimed that lightening and thunder was caused by their gods being angry. A person claiming they're supernatural does not equal truth in that claim. 5) No it doesn't not show the true religion and 70% of the world disagrees with you.

6)No, I don't trust you. You are some random evangelical Christian with an agenda to convert me. 7) life did appear spontaneously mountains of objective evidence supports that.

Nothing tangible, measurable or verifiable supports the claims in your ancient superstition. In fact, the facts tend to contradict it. Funny, how you *only* deny science when it contradicts your ancient mythology.

8) Prove your god even exists before you make the claim its always been there or ask me to give it a chance. 9) I did, why do you assume I didn't. I read the Bible and realized it was no more profound, knowledgeable or enlightened than the people of the time that wrote it.

With primitive ideas on natural processes, morals, and social issues just like all other ancient philosophy. There is more profound, thought-provoking and enlightened philosophies in our modern times than the Bible. You may figure that out if you picked up other books outside the Bible once in awhile.

When I prayed, I was talking to myself. There's no dude in the sky floating around listening to our whinning on this planet. All gods are myths created by ancient people to explain what they did not understand.

They continue to be replaced with understandable scientific explanations and will continue the same way. As we shed light on ignorance. 10) Don't be fooled by the lies of your agenda-ridden cult.

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.