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

I first want to start by saying that everyone has faith of some kind. You yourself have faith that god doesn't exist-because if you knew without a doubd that there was no need for an intelligent designer then we would not be having this debate. Secondly, assuming god did sometyhing doesn't stop an individual from looking or studying it deeper into finding out how and why a creator did it. Isaac newton, a firm believer in the creator didn't stop his explorations when he founded the laws of motion and gravity. But he did say that due to the complexitites there most certainly had to be a far more complexer mind behind the universe. to give some logical sense to you wanting objective evidence, if you look around everything in this reality is interdependent of something else for its existence. For example: a plant cannot exist if there isnt a ground, a seed, water, sunlight, skies, earth, gravity. If you really want to get technical you wouldn't exist if it wasn't for your mother and father. Now you can go really far with my statement and apply it to every individual in your family or every individual in society. We all rely off something outside of ourselves to exist. I have to say that I totally disagree with you stating that its really flawed to say something as complex as the universe needs a creator. Because if you deny this universe having a creator then you subject yourself to postulating that it happened by chance. Furthermore you cannot prove this. Now to answer you stating that we started from a worthless speck, I have to point out that you use the word "start,' so we agree that the universe was created, basically we agree it had a starting point. Now I know you will say the big bang theory did it all. But lets realize this is a theory and it still doesn't answer what started the big bang, or how by chance all these laws just coincide with this universe so perfectly. I will now adress your statement on the creator needing a creator and that its a endless process. This statement has no relevance to the creator that people believe in because it is eternal. Richard Dawkins sure wouldn't have made any money off his book " the god delusion" If he had titled it " the created god delusion." Because anyone who believes in an created god surely is delusional. I would like to ask if you beleieve in anything being eternal? Because if you believe in matter and energy being all that there is , and cannot be destroyed, an can only change form. Then you do believe in something eternal. But if you dont beleive matter and energy are eternal, therefore, you consider them finite then who or what created matter and energy? Now I would like to call out your flaw on saying if god did exist then it would have to conform to the natural laws. The creator establishing the laws of nature, doesn't justify that it would have to conform to them. If iits intelligent enough to create such laws then it would govern the laws and be far more superior over them. Laws are created. So I would like to know how you think nature came about? Now I want to adress this evil issue because its looking like you think god is allowing tragedys and disasters to occur left and right.First lets establish that religious structures are man made. Secondly I would like to know how you can form a concept of an eternal creator? Third, I will enlighten you on this confusion you have with evil and suffering. I think you are still confusing god as a mechanism and not an agent. I would also like to add that this is a very touchy subject that I feel has no answer that will satify any atheist or believer. But I would like to give my statement as to why I think there is evil. I will use some text from a book called Conversations with God, written by Neal Donald Walsch and it states, "This discussion here turns esoteric, because no serious explanation of this statement can ignore the word "evil," and the value judgments it invites. In truth , there is nothing evil, only objective phenomena and experience. Yet your very purpose in life requires you to slect from the growing collection of endless phenomena a scattered few in which you call evil-for unless yo do, you cannot call yourself nor anything else,good- and thus cannot know, or create, your Self. By that which you call evil do you define your-self-and by that which you call good. The biggest evil would therefore be to declare nothing evil at all. You exist in this life in the world of the relative, where one thing can exist only insofar as it relates to anotherThis is at one and the same time both the function and the purpose of relationship: to provide a field of experience within which you find yourself, define yourself, and-if you choose-constantly recreate Who You Are." In this life we all have will power to make any descision we want to. The choices we make create who we are. How would we know who we are unless we know who were not. This goes for evil also we all have a choice, but how could you even know the concept good without thus knowing goods adversary. Now to explain a little about suffering, suffering is a unnecessary, and hazardous aspect of our human lifes. God gives us the tools to end suffering, but we are to ignorant to utilize them properly. See suffering has nothing to with events we go through, but more on how we react to them. Whats happeneing is whats happeneing. How we we feel about whats happeneing is another matter. Now why doesnt god stop them? Well events are occurences in time and space which we as humans produce out of choice-and why would god interfere with our choices? This would obviate why we were created. Some events we produce willfully, and some events we draw to us-more or less unconsciousley. Some events-major natural disasters- are written off to a category we call fate. Fate can also be used as an acronym translated into "from all thoughts everywhere." It's more or less part of an collective consciousness. The paradox of the stone is an old school way to end this god discussion, but it doesnt work anymore. This argument is very illogical because if God is omnipotent, then there is no "size limit" to any stone that he can create, nor is there a "size limit" to his ability to lift stones. Therefore, if God is omnipotent, there is no possible stone that would be too heavy for him to lift. If it is impossible for there to be such a stone, then the fact that God can"t create it certainly can"t count against his omnipotence. Theists do not claim that God can do anything (except maybe in casual conversation when they are being less precise than they should be). When theists are being precise about what the concept of omnipotence means, they acknowledge that there are some things God cannot do. Specifically, God cannot perform logically impossible tasks. And of course the reason God cannot do them is not because he lacks power or knowledge " rather, the reason he can"t do them is because they are impossible. Imagine you are in a Geometry class, and after a long semester"s work, you have arrived at the final examination. Item #32 on the exam says, "Draw a square circle." Can you do this? No. Does your inability to draw the square circle reflect some lack of knowledge of geometrical principles on your part? No. Are you unable to do it because you lack some skill in drawing objects? No. The reason you cannot "draw a square circle" is because it is impossible. As soon as you know what the words "square" and "circle" mean, you know that such an object can never be drawn, because it isn"t really an object at all. All we have done here is arrange certain words into a sentence so that it appears to be something that someone could actually do. But it is just a cleverly disguised "pseudo task." It is just impossible. Asking God to make a stone too heavy for him to lift is much like asking someone to draw a square circle. It is logically impossible. Not even God can draw a square circle.