faceman writes:
...where would you be if evolution were proven false? Could you still cling to atheism?
This is a very revealing question. It suggests that the reason you believe in a god is because you believe there are things about the natural world that science hasn't yet explained. This is what is referred to as the god of the gaps.
To answer your question, I wouldn't still cling to atheism, I would embrace it whole-heartedly. You see, I'm not an atheist because I think science has all the answers. Even if science had no answers at all, I would still be an atheist because religion has no answers and no evidence to support it. I would still be an atheist because the answer to questions about the natural world that religion provides is "God did it." Not only is this not an answer, it effectively ends the search for real answers.
I'm an atheist for the same reason you don't believe in flying elephants and talking, anthropomorphic mice, assuming you don't believe in those things. If you do, I'm afraid I can't help you.
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. -- Thomas Jefferson
We see monsters where science shows us windmills. -- Phat
It has always struck me as odd that fundies devote so much time and effort into trying to find a naturalistic explanation for their mythical flood, while looking for magical explanations for things that actually happened. -- Dr. Adequate
Howling about evidence is a conversation stopper, and it never stops to think if the claim could possibly be true -- foreveryoung
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