Debate: Do you believe in God?
Side: No!!

"And yet you do nothing except reinforce my point that atheists as a whole believe themselves to be superior to religious people."It's not what atheists believe. It's a little something called fact. Every study into education, intelligence and religions shows that there is a indirectly proportional link between intelligence and education, and religious beliefs. I'm sorry if facts annoy you."Why it is that you feel the need to try and belittle someone else's beliefs I'll never understand."It's nothing to do with that. It's everything to do with religion's invasion in our lives. The widespread AIDs epidemic in Africa due to the church condemning contraception, the slow take-up in life saving research into stem cells, terrorism, etc, etc. It's not about your right to have your little fantasy; it's about how and when it starts to effect my life."I think that atheists are arrogant because they don't bother to acknowledge they may in fact be wrong and as a whole demand that everyone believe exactly as they do."Absolutely not. I feel that you should have every right to believe what you want to believe, and we're both lucky enough to live in countries where that is so (well, less so in the US). The problem I have is when people forget to leave their religious beliefs at home in matters such as politics, education, healthcare, etc. If you're going to be meddling in things such as this, please bring facts to the table, not beliefs with no evidence. THAT's my problem.Also, in regards to acknowledging being wrong, you're incorrect to assume that. I work on the evidence at hand, and certain logical principles. There's no evidence and no logic to show me the existance of a god. When/if that evidence or logic ever pops up, I'd be perfectly willing to accept it."It's one thing to voice your beliefs and try to convince someone, it's an entirely different thing to tell someone that they are wrong when one cannot provide any proof to support the claim."Well, that's debatable. If you're, say, a christian, you believe that I am going to go to hell. You truly and absolutely believe that because I haven't accepted Jesus, or any of the other silly things we have to do to get into heaven. You might not voice that opinion, but you truly believe it. And you have less proof to go on then me saying that there is no god.Everything we've learnt about the universe and science in the past few centuries has been in complete contradiction to the abrahamic religions. You may be able to change and modify your beliefs to make them compatible with science, but you're only stripping away the divinity. Why not call a spade a spade? This is a debating website. I think the religious are wrong and I'll say so; deal with it."Personally I think that the universe has far to many coincidences to have been created by accident, I also think that God put in place a system of rules for the universe to follow and that investigating those rules is one of the most enduring and worthwhile uses of one's life."Well, those are your beliefs and you have every right to hold them. Just remember that what you personally believe and fact are two different things. There are no "coincidences" that happened by "accident". This is where my point about education and IQ comes into it. Evolution, for example, isn't an accident or a coincidence. It's factual, logical, backed by tons of evidence, and contradicts the bible."Science and religion study too different things, science is the study of the universe, religion is the attempt to understand God and God's will."Not really. Science overlaps religion on so many levels, and every single time it does so it seems to be a contradiction to or against the view of religion. I'll put my faith in science, thank you very much."Both could coexist, many of the earliest scientists had the same world view as I have described, and the Church supported them."I really hope you don't truly believe what you just said there? The church hounded, imprisoned and killed people who had differing views."However people choose to ignore what to me seems to be fairly simple and straightforward."It's not simple and straightfoward. Science shows time and time again that religion is wrong. They can't coexist.Anyway, I think you got a bit worked up over nothing. You stated that atheists are arrogant because they believe they are better, and I just added some fact to show that believing that isn't arrogance; it's simply the truth.