WHAT ATHEISTS BELIEVE

C DeSalvo

1. Eleven Apostles (and many others) accepted cruel deaths rather than admit they "lied" regarding Jesus' life and Resurrection.

2. Darwinian evolution is the greatest and most secretive process in the universe. Given enough time, it can accomplish any and every favorable change in life. Evolution cannot be observed nor can it be proven true by any experiment. Evolution is “real” despite any evidence in today's world of any single organism that is evolving.

3. The Shroud is a fake icon created by a 14^th century genius using techniques that modern science cannot duplicate.

4. The Bible's poetical, historical, metaphorical and allegorical texts are myths written by power-mad religious fakers.

5. The Gospels were written by delusional fools.

6. Jesus never lived or if he did, he was insane to preach what he did and die for it.

7. Morality and evil are simply creations of human intelligence; they are not God-given absolutes. “Good” and “evil,” and “right” and “wrong” do not exist in the world, because God does not exist.

8. The universe was created by a natural accident. Billions upon billions of other universes probably exist or existed, but ours is the only one we know.

9. Religions are full of ridiculous and intolerant ideas. Religions are the major cause of much of the wars, hatred and other miseries that afflict humans. Atheism would eliminate much of those evils.

10. The first cells of life accidentally happened once, never happened again and given enough time, science will explain how those natural, fantastic accidents occurred.

11. Darwinian evolution developed all the species of life, and all the complex molecular and cellular mechanisms within those species.

12. The Big Bang creation of the universe was a wondrous, favorable accident of totally unknown cause that absolutely did not require a God because the notion of God is incredible by definition of atheists.

13. The mathematical order, physical laws and the precise universal constants of our marvelous universe accidentally developed in some unknown way that did not require any God.

14. The DNA language, its use, copying and proofreading plus all the information stored within life using that language was created not by intelligence but by blind, mindless evolution.

15. Evolution accidentally developed aging and natural death in multicellular life.

16. Miracles have never happened and are impossible.

17. Only a detestable God would have created a world that contains so much innocent suffering.

18. The Resurrection is a lie fabricated by hundreds of crazy persons.

19. The biblical behaviors God originally desired of humans should not change regardless of how much human knowledge and culture advances.

20. Atheism reduces human misery while religion increases it.

21. Humans and animals were created by blind, mindless evolution and have no responsibility for their actions. Humans are simply intelligent robots and do not deserve punishment for their brutal actions.

22. Any imagined God should conform to the behavioral standards of modern humans, not the other way around.

23. The Bible should not have been written in styles suitable for early teachers of illiterates, but should have been written to suit today’s readers.

24. All religions are hopelessly flawed because some religions were invented or twisted by crafty knaves. And any religion is false if any single leader in the religion ever says or does a single thing wrong.

25. By definition (by atheists) there cannot be intelligence greater than human intelligence either within or without the universe.

26. Although the vast majority of known mutations are unfavorable to evolution, still the immense number of very long sequences of favorable mutations that evolution requires must have happened.

27. After single-cellular life existed on earth for three billion years, suddenly marvelous, multi-cellular life appeared by some unknown but natural accident.