I’m a functional Atheist in the sense that I live my life as though God does not exist. This is especially true when I’m thinking about science (which is just about always). In part, it’s because if you allow the possibility of God in a scientific context, then the answer is always as simple as “God did it,” which is, of course, no answer at all. It really goes deeper than that, but for now I’ll leave it at that.

I’m an intellectual Agnostic in the sense that I think that the truth of God’s existence is currently unknowable. In other words, we can’t really know that God does exist because, frankly, there is a very conspicuous lack of evidence for such a hypothesis. On the other hand, we can’t really know that God does not exist, because absence of evidence is not necessarily evidence of absence. Yes I understand the limitation of this kind of reasoning, but my reasoning actually goes a little deeper than that. For now I’ll leave it at that.

Finally, I’m a personal Deist in the sense that I believe that there is actually a God. Now, this isn’t the God of the Bible, Quran, Torah, or any other religion. I think the God of Einstein is probably the closest to my own definition (as described in Dawkins’ The God Delusion). For all intents and purposes, you can simply ignore this fact. It in no way affects my daily life, or how I think. I don’t think anyone will go to hell if they don’t believe as I do. In fact, I don’t believe that God affects my own, or anyone else’s life (here or in the so-called “next life”) in any real way. So why do I even believe? *shrug* That’s why. It’s not a rational thing and it is frankly indefensible, so I don’t even try.

Having said all of that, you may notice that my posts tend to fall definitively on the side of Atheism for most things. This is, of course, a result of being a functional Atheist.