An Afterlife is NO threat to an Atheist viewpoint :)

Conciousness is the ground of all being. Therefore conciousness could exist on other dimensions after leaving this dimension into an "afterlife" that is NOT defined in any religious text :) An atheist view is not threatened by an afterlife :) No Rules Go Nuts :) Case #1--You claim that since religion talks about an afterlife and if it were proven to be correct we should assume they are correct about god. The level of illogical thought in that statement is staggering. Religion also talked about drought, famine, and war. Religion does NOT own the rights to famines, or droughts, although they do have a stranglehold on wars, religion does NOT own the rights to wars either :) Religion also does NOT own the rights to morality. Morality preceeds any organized religion, arrogance assumes otherwise :) Religion also does NOT own the rights to our conciousness existing beyond this dimension. So your case #1 is ridiculous because it makes the claim that religion somehow owns the right to something just because "they called it first" Case #2--What you call the soul, science calls our conciousness. Our conciousness is studied in Quantum Physics. You and no human on this planet completely understands conciousness. Claiming to have all the answers regarding our conciousness, is how you outdo the illogical claims you made in case #1. So case #2 is destroyed because you are putting limits on our conciosness and no human has any idea the limits of conciousness. Case #3--This is easy to destroy. I am NOT making any claims that there is an afterlife for our conciousness, nor am I saying I know anything 100%. Certainties are for religious people, saying "I dont know, lets roll up our sleeves and keep looking" is what brilliant minds known as scientists do :) What needs to be understood is the word atheist is really pointless. There isnt a term for people who dont believe in astrology, there isnt a term for people who dont believe in leprechauns at the end of rainbows, there isnt a term for people who do not believe there is a tea pot orbiting the Andromeda galaxy either. The best words for such "nonbelievers" would be sane or logical :) So case #3 is destroyed because the possibility of our conciousness existing on another dimension cannot be proven or disproven, however, proof that our conciousness can exist, does NOT automatically mean the reason for everything supprts human sacrifice to prove a point :) Hope there's room in the trash for Case #4 because thats where it belongs. Again, you are assuming you know everythihng. I am NOT young enough to know everything. You are claiming things that cannot be proven. We might as well talk about how many stars are in the universe. Its a statistical improbability that any human can count them all, just like its a statistical improbability that the reason for everything can be unequivically proven. Case #5--Pascal should stay out of casino's. He wagers like a scared person and scared money doesnt win! The beauty of science is that all of todays serious scientists are smarter than Darwin. Darwin, Einstein, Copernicus, and even the christian favorite, Isaac Newton, knew nothing at all about genetics, DNA, Fractal Geometry, Quantum Physics, the Higgs Boson or the complete mapping of the Human Genome which finally happened in 2001-2002 :) Just like ancient religions, ancient geniuses just gave us a kick start. Choosing to follow the outdated kickstart given by religion is nothing short of foolish because the kick start of science was just that, a start. We are leaps and bounds ahead of 150 yrs ago and todays brilliant minds would crush past geniuses becasuse we know so much more today. So in conclusion of this round, an afterlife is no threat to an atheist viewpoint, because religion does NOT own the rights to an existance beyond this dimension simply because they wrote about it "first". Religion may have been our first attempt at answering questions avbout life, and because it was our first, it is our worst. Science is flexible and always learning. Religion is stagnant and stuck on outdated beliefs :) Now since we have enough characters left, lets get some big kids stuff out there :) WAKEUP 16:4--Never fear learning and education, such fear is contagious and harmful to children :) WorkOut 7:2--By allowing your intuition, intellect and instinct to stretch their legs, is the most corrosive thing you can ever do to religious views :) BigKids 9:47--The Genie is NOT ONLY A-THEIST to zeus, romulos, mithra, krishna, osiris, horus jesus, allah and all the other "personal gods", but also a-unicornist, a-hobgoblinist, and a-leprechaunist, even at the end of rainbows :) DevientGenie 9:26--Contrary to popular belief, the Genie understands the trinity. The trinity of Intuition, Intellect and Instinct, there you will always have the answer, even if the answer is "I dont know", thats ok, big kids arent young enough to know everything :) LEARNING 1:1--The universal genetic code--- All cells on Earth, from our white blood cells, to simple bacteria, to cells in the leaves of trees, are capable of reading any piece of DNA from any life form on Earth. This is very strong evidence for a common ancestor from which all life descended :) LEARNING 1:2--The fossil record---The fossil record shows that the simplest fossils will be found in the oldest rocks, and it can also show a smooth and gradual transition from one form of life to another :) LEARNING 1:3--Genetic commonalities--- Human beings have approximately 96% of genes in common with chimpanzees, about 90% of genes in common with cats, 80% with cows, 75% with mice, and so on, all the way to less than 1%. This does not prove that we evolved from chimpanzees or cats, though, only that we shared a common ancestor in the past. And the amount of difference between our genomes corresponds to how long ago our genetic lines diverged :) LEARNING 1:4--Bacterial resistance to antibiotics---- Bacteria colonies can only build up a resistance to antibiotics through evolution. It is important to note that in every colony of bacteria, there are a tiny few individuals which are naturally resistant to certain antibiotics. This is because of the random nature of mutations. When an antibiotic is applied, it will kill most bacteria, leaving behind only those few cells which happen to have the mutations necessary to resist the antibiotics. In subsequent generations, the resistant bacteria reproduce, forming a new colony where every member is resistant to the antibiotic. This is natural selection in action. The antibiotic is "selecting" for organisms which are resistant, and killing any that are not :) BigKids 11:30--I dont have faith in logic and reason, I use logic and reason. When it comes to science of course youre going to make mistakes, if youre not, youre doing it wrong. Worse though is NOT correcting those mistakes, then youre really doing it wrong. However, worst of all is if you cant accept youre mistaken, then youre not doing it at all :) Brainiacs 9:17--Not every animal and creature fossilizes. However, as of the year 2012, we have amassed an obscene amount of fossils, that we can tell what the puzzle looks like without having all the pieces. Either you or have someone put together a 100,000 piece puzzle, however, with no knowledge of what the puzzle is supposed to look like, you could tell it is going to be a train, a car, outer space, the desert, whatever it is, with less than half the pieces, thats how the most brilliant minds of the world figure out things without having all the pieces in place. Thats why they are labled genius and get noteriety and awards. If all the money donated in the name of jesus, went to genius, we would have even more awesome advancements for life here on earth now and for the future :)