I am a biology student, going into my senior year of college. I am also getting a minor in anthropology. These two degrees are where you normally find most of your agnostics and atheists. I come from a deeply religious family, my parents being firm Lutherans, and anit-evolution.
However, I do not follow their line of thinking what so ever.
I consider myself an agnostic atheist: meaning that that I truly do not know if there is or is not a god or deity, but I personally do not believe that there is. With how I view the world, I see no place for god or a creator. I like to take what I learn and apply it to how I see the world, and with my scientific academics so far, god does not belong in my world view.
Evolution is true,there is overwhelming evidence for this theory. (And for you people that are like "it's just a theory", its a scientific theory, and that is the highest form an idea can get in the academic world. i.e. Gravity is just a theory, germs are just a theory, etc.) And I have taken this over whelming evidence and put it into my world view. And that alone pushed out any idea of creationism from my mind.
Why the christian god does not work for me is the bible alone is full of barbaric ideas and actions done by this so called "loving" god. Even if he did create humanity, I would not want to worship such an evil being that would force girls to marry their rapist, accept human sacrifice, kill millions of innocents just because a few of the population were "evil". No. This is not a "god" I would worship even if I was open to the idea of a deity.
Over all I am happy with this, since I have admitted this to myself I have felt this great weight lift off of my shoulders. My entire life I felt this heavy pressure to believe in a god, having to fear and love this god or else I would go to hell and burn. Now coming to this conclusion, I feel better, about life, about myself and how the world works.
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