Genologist writes:
What other general reason has there ever been for rejecting any authority?
You think only one "general reason" can exist for rejecting authority? Really?
It's the "Don't tell me what to do, and how to live my life" syndrome.
Yes, this is one reason for rejecting authority. Do you have any evidence that it's the atheists' reason for believing God does not exist? Have you compared and contrasted this reason with the reason atheists believe Allah and Zeus do not exist? Have you considered the possibility that maybe atheists reject God's authority for the same reason they reject Allah and Zeus, namely that none of these gods exist?
Sadly in the case of the Creator God many have misunderstood what type of authority He is.
I believe atheists think the Creator God is of the non-existent type.
However denying that He exists does not change His status, only ours.
How does the evidence for your God exceed the evidence for Allah or Zeus?
By the way, could somebody please explain how the simple common ancestor life form, traditionally taught as being the "humble" amoeba could have 290 billion units of DNA- some one hundred times that of the human being when evolution clearly teaches a progression in complexity (and a gaining of genetic information) from simple life forms to the most complex such as yours truly! Perhaps this simple thing will confound the wise, and the "Fact" of evolution will once more "need" to be "in evolution".
In a saner world you would have added the smiley as an indication that you were only kidding when you stuffed that paragraph full or errors and misconceptions, but sadly I think that's not the case.
--Percy
Edited by Percy, : Fix title.