COC ......

Your own body carries evidence of evolution .....your own skeleton comes complete with a COCCYX ....

"In humans and other tailless primates (e.g., great apes) since Nacholapithecus (a Miocene hominoid), the coccyx is the remnant of a vestigial tail, but still not entirely useless" ...

link...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coccyx

There you go.... "vestigial tail" ........ Now where do you think that came from .....???

similarly....Wisdom Teeth too are vestigial attributes from earlier examples of our species....

"Wisdom teeth are vestigial third molars that human ancestors used to help in grinding down plant tissue. The common postulation is that the skulls of human ancestors had larger jaws with more teeth, which were possibly used to help chew down foliage to compensate for a lack of ability to efficiently digest the cellulose that makes up a plant cell wall."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_vestigiality#Wisdom_teeth

I hate how religious people always make long posts about how God loves you and everything, but never give you any proof. And when they give you "proof", its how they felt an angel watching them. That is not proof. That is delusion

I'll add look the progress of science...how much ground religion has had to give in the last 400 years. If you're rational and can think critically and care about what's actually true...what's most likely. A scientific understanding that we have so far and or one of thousands of religions and gods..most of which are buried in the grave we call mythology ...sam harris quote.
Or holy books written with contraction..racism slavery..stoning people to death..having to suspend the laws of scientific understanding to believe in its miracles...written decades after aledged jesus by desperate people being slain by the Romans who didn't even know the earth went round the sun.
If there are things we don't still know scientifically of which there are...it's fine to still say let's find out ..let's see what evidence we can find rather than lazily say...ah well we don't know that bit there yet so I'll just chuck in God did it what a cop out

Welcome to the boards FreeUrmind.

I actually read all what you wrote. I of course, agree with you wrote, being an atheist myself. It always seems to me that the evidence that points to no god is overwhelming compared to the few confusing, poorly constructed arguments theist have for the proof of god.

Some of what you wrote can be summarized as "the god of gaps." If you have not heard that term before, it paraphrases/encapsulates much of what you wrote in your first response.

Like you said 400-500 years ago, believing in god made a lot of sense. Life was cheap, life spans were short, and life was hard. For the most part, the most powerful medicine known to man back then was the "placebo effect." There was much we did not understand about the world, and even for the few back then that began to grasp concepts like the world is round, the earth rotates around the sun etc, comprised of only the tiniest fraction of the population.

I believe less than 1% of the population back then could read and write. Everything they learned, they learned from their parents, the local place of worship and the immediate small community around them. If Christianity was what your particular small community did, the chances of "knowing different" was incredibly small, you simply did not have access to other information. It is a bit like trying to explain how big the world is to a 5 year old, beyond: "its much much bigger than you can possibly imagine."

Fast forward to today. Now much of the world can read and write. We have access to the internet, an incredible wealth of information is available in micro seconds, and we have places on the internet like the atheist republic. The excuse to not know better has gotten incredibly small. It really requires a locked down, closed off mind to ignore the enormous amount of evidence against most major religions.

One thing I have learned so far in my brief time here on these boards, for the remaining "strong theist" that actually would visit a site like Atheist Republic, it really is not about logic and fact. For these people, so sucked into their religion, they feel they need to come here to "save us" (atheist) from ourselves. It is not about facts and reasoning and logic, if it was, they would not still be theist. It is all about emotion.

This again has been shown in science. They have done brain scans of strongly atheist minds and strongly theist minds. They can literally see and record differences in what parts of the brain light up, what chemicals are released in the brain and so on. They can literally "cut out" the more religious part of the brain, greatly affecting and diminishing that person's religious experiences.

They have mind altering drugs that can give a strong atheist, (like me,) a "religious" experience. As well as different types of drugs that can suppresses a strong theist's religious experiences to the point they feel going to church on Sunday is a waste of time. Of course getting the dosing on these drugs correct can be a tricky task. Someone like me may cry uncontrollably the entire time, and the theist may turn catatonic.

When you say evidence points to no God. I might elaborate that to something like this.
Evidence based on scientific methodologies and evidence demonstrates the natural world and how it works without any need or as yet evidence for the supernatural. Additionally we're not making a claim about God and the onus isn't on an atheist to disprove God in this way. If someone makes a claim about something then it's on them to provide evidence for it to be true.
So the burden of proof is on the person making a claim..this is rational thinking. Religious people sometimes say to an atheist you can't prove there's no God therefore it's true or possible. This is shifting the burden of proof. It's like saying..to use the fairy analogy further...you can't prove fairies don't exist so the default position is that they do until proven otherwise. Clearly nonsense and the default is fairies don't exist until evidence is given for them existing. So I just reject the notion of a god because those who assert it haven't met their burden of proof.
It gets worse sadly...I recently joined a Christian site as an atheist and many have been compelled due to overwhelming evidence to accept evolution in some bizarre God guides mutations way rather than by natural selection to attempt to weave it into supernatural beliefs. Also some think there is some scientific conspiracy to make things up and lie. It's hard for us atheists to imagine the levels of indoctrination that have happened here to facilitate this paranoid thinking and to lose any objective thinking.