give me a rational reason to substantiate your basis for being an atheist

I am an atheist because of a two reasons. The first being a lack of faith. This being that just because I see something I do not understand, I will not go ahead and say that a god did it. And the second is that I have reveiwed all or rather most of the arguments and 'evidence' for both the deist and the theist concept of god, and I have not been pursuaded. Furthermore, I have reveiwed the evidential and the logical arguments for the non-existence of a creator and am convinced that a god doesn't exist. Now on to my opponent's arguments. My first contention is rather self explanitory. My opponent has the burden of proof. Now concerning my the question of what kind of proof, mainly any kind of evidence that one can observed physically or mentally. R1: As for my opponent's argument on the basis of design, I would say it is really flawed to say that something as complex as the Universe has to have a creator when in fact, that creator being subject unto the same logic would also have to have a creator and also that creator, and the one before that, and so on! It all has to start somewhere. It is more logical to see the universe as how we see the Earth. It started from a worthless lifeless speck in the never ending reaches of space and has constantly evolved (in the space of 15 billion years! ) into what we know today. If a creator existed, it is obviously very slow. This also applies to logic and the natural laws. Logic is merely how we see reality, for example, it is illogical to think that the earth is flat. and The natural laws are just that, they are natural not supernatural. If a creator existed he would also have to conform to natural laws. R2: As to my opponent's response to my argument from evil, he fails to see the real point of the contention. The point is not what causes it (even though by most theistic religions god is all-loving, all-powerful, and all-knowing) in as much as it is what gods if they exist do about the suffering. For example, let's say I know when, where, who is going to rape a woman and I have the full means of stopping this from occurring. Is it ethical for me to do nothing? I would say no it isn't and it isn't by the ethics of most of the worlds religions. Yet we see rapes, murders, starvation, and etc. And yet if a god did exist then he is not doing anything about it. So this rules out the concepts of god that is taught by most of the worlds religions. This argument was not intended to tackle the concept of god as a whole, but rather tackle the theist concept of god that is held by the majority of the religious around the world today. R3: As for the Paradox of the Stone, my opponent fails to realize that if a creator were to create the universe and space itself, then it itself has to be omnipotent. However, omnipotence is impossible as I have proven through the Paradox of the Stone. Does the Universe Need an Intelligent Designer? There is literally tons of evidence to show that the Universe needs a creator to exist. I will start with quantum mechanics. When we talk of the orgins of everything, it is often said "Something can't come from nothing". however, the Laws of Physics have disproven this. A certain phenominon has been observed by scietists where energy and matter has been produced out of nothing [1,2]. This proves that it is possible that the conditions and elements needed to cause the "Big Bang" can come from literally nothing. Further, we ask ourselfs out could all of this could come about on it's own? Yet evolution is a proven scietific theory that shows that through billions of years of constant change complexity can show[3,4]. And then you might think that that a creator would have to get evolution started. However, this was disproven with the discovery of abiogenesis. John D. Sutherland showed in a series of experiments that carbon based life can come from self-replicating RNA [5]. All this evidence proves that the conditions and elements needed for the formation of life do not need divine intervention and can do it itself through random changes. Now, the paragragh above showed how the Universe doesn't require divine intervention, and now this one will be centered around how unperfect the Universe is, and show that if a god did do it, then it did a somewhat sloppy job. Do note that if a god were to exist, then it would need to be all-powerful and therefore, could not have made as many mistakes as there are in the universe and the countless species that call this planet home. The Universe is not perfect. It may be complex, but it is in no way perfect. Proof of this is all around us. Every second a star like our Sun explodes and burns out to become non-existence, and brings what ever life that needed it's support with it. We see black holes appearing from no where that suck everything in it's plath into 'who knows where'. You can even look into the night sky and see the Andromeda Galaxy, which our Galaxy (the Milky Way), is sue to make direct collision course with in the future [6]. This impact will most likely be the death of life on Earth. We also have proven through the work of our scientists, that ever since the "Big Bang", the Universe has been expanded outward, and sooner or later our Universe itself, will ciese exist [7]. Now with this evidence presented, is there really a chance that a creator would create something with so many flaws in it? All the evidence supports random causation and random change as the causation of the Universe and life on Earth. I will now hand it over to my opponent and Thank You. Sources[1]. http://truthisscary.com...[2]http://en.wikipedia.org...[3]http://serendip.brynmawr.edu...[4]http://en.wikipedia.org...[5]http://www.nytimes.com...[6]http://www.space.com...[7] . http://skyserver.sdss.org...