Unrelated, I read recently that about 90% of scientists are atheists. lolll
i think it is a natural side effect of learning stuff.
as far as the moon conspiracy goes, i only see one point that really makes me go "wtf". why is it that we were able to land there 40 years ago, did it a couple times and decided, "welp, there is nothing more to learn/harvest/study here." it seems stupid to me that we have not gone back or even tried to to study it more, and that no other developing nations ever went there to drop a flag and be able to say "we made it, too." this alone makes me think that we never made it there in the first place.
as per UFOs...i saw some fucked up shit over south phoenix a couple years ago with my own eyes, which has led me to obsess a bit about the things.
as far as god goes, i've always thought of the world in the sense that star wars could have been real. that is to say that i believe in the force. there are most certainly forces and creatures that exist that which i cannot explain and nor can any sort of science...yet. there are things which govern all matter that can be manipulated, which we don't see and don't understand...yet. these mysterious things, to me, are "god" per se. they are not one conscious being that created everything, they are simply the as yet unknown.
400 years ago when lightning struck your corn and it burned and 2 of your kids had to starve that winter and the other 9 kids had to eat them to survive, it was "god" that did it to you as punishment for something. now, we know that it was a shift in the polar something because of a meteor strike and then cold water movement in the pacific and then high pressure fronts from the water making a storm season and charging the air with static and blah blah blah blah. the point is it is no longer a mystery.
i believe that all things will eventually be figured out and explained rationally through physics, but until they are, they remain a mystery, which i refer to as "the force". if you wish to call that mystery "god" then suit yourself.
page, did you know that the US government actually did develop a "gay bomb" for the air force with some of the patriot act money? Wright Laboratories, the creator, actually won a nobel prize in 2007 for it, but the air force guys refused to accept it, lol. basically it was a chemical weapon that mixed concentrated male and female pheromones and tricked human brains into accepting both and made everyone pretty much want to fuck whoever they were closest to. i think it is awesome.
@kvasir- an easy way to define agnosticism is to think of it outside of a religious context. think about bigfoot or aliens instead of "god". do you believe in aliens? do you believe that life exists anywhere in the universe outside of earth? if you don't think so because you have never seen them, but it makes sense that they could be there, then you are an agnostic in terms if alien life. the same thing applies to religious beliefs.
also i think kingace is right as for atheism. belief in no god is a leap of faith just the same as belief in a god is. atheism is not a lack of faith, it is simply a lack of faith in a god of any sort. you can argue all day about evidence and whatnot, but the very notion of faith is drawing a conclusion without conclusive evidence, so any debate about defining by the presence of evidence or lack thereof is kinda mute. depending on who you ask, there is plenty of evidence either way, anyway. can i ever prove that god does not exist? it is not possible, if only because of the very nature of 'faith'. therefore i make a leap of faith of my own that science will eventually explain all the world's mysteries and god does not exist.
