While the need for truth and reason are a driving part of my dis-belief in any god and do not see any evidence of his/her existence. Show me some proof and I'll change my view. The believers trust in the bible but it was reading that amalgamation of myth and ignorance that made me an atheist.

I've had issue trying to understand what makes people so sure myself. An atheist explained to me once you can treat it like a logical query. If someone makes a claim something exists, yet shows no evidence to back up the claim to make it true, the default stance is to state the claim is false.

It's not that there is a claim this thing doesn't exist. It's literally a rejection of the claim without verifiable proof. In this way, even agnosics who may have doubts God exists fall under this atheist umbrella albeit in a loose way.

I find "agnostic" to explain my belief system more than atheism myself. There are a lot of big picture things humans aren't sure about- like how was this universe exist, what started it all, etc. A "God" in the form of a human being with tenants seems highly unlikely. Whatever force may be behind everything is likely something we couldn't wrap our heads around.

I would never say I was 100% certain...just on the laws of probability it’s almost a100% certainty that there isn’t any god. Nobody in the long history of the world has actually found any evidence that a god or gods exist, that is pretty compelling, however not 100% conclusive.

I know 100% that god does not exist until those who claim that it exists show me the evidence that such thing like god exists the same way I know 100% that Santa does not exist until you show me the evidence that it exists.

Man . I can think at least ten things that I am certain of , and will take less than 10 seconds
And I have to say , the gods issue won't even make my top ten list , who gives a rat's behind
I can't imagine a life that u are " uncertain of anything" . Wow . I knew my life was boring , but man , after this I should kill my self

I am comfortable in my 100% sure that there is no "God"; however, like you I am ready to accept new evidence should it present itself, but it won't, and I'll tell you why. Born with epilepsy and stricken with rheumatic fever as a child my father was a very sick man; also, I had a sister that was two years older than me (I'm sixty eight) that was stricken with polio at the age of four and became a paraplegic as a result. My father's family is an old family; they can trace their roots back to their first ancestor to settle here in the mid 1600s and on back into England; they have always been devoutly religious, and my father was no exception. I don't know how it was before my sister was stricken with polio, but afterwards he embarked on a quest looking for a miracle for both himself and my sister; if there was a revival, we were there; if there was a faith healer around, we were there. This went on until I was eight, when my father passed away at 45 still looking for his miracle. My sister was no different; she died at the age of 70 almost a quadriplegic still asking her god to heal her. So is there a "God"? My evidence says, no, but I am always open to new data should it present itself, but it will have to be VERY, VERY compelling.

What specifically do you mean by 100%?

I have spent my life observing the world and have seen many more than 200 things without coming across anything supernatural.

I mentioned the number 200 because 1 event in 200 gives 1 / 200 = 0.005 = 0.5%. Looked at in reverse that would be 99.5% out of 100%. 99.5% rounds up to 100%. So there.

If course since I don't even have 1 event, the number works out technically even higher than that.

Speaking seriously though... One thing that I am most confident of is that there is nothing certain in our existence. So I cannot say that I am absolutely certain the supernatural doesn't exist. (If something exists, it's natural.)

But given my observations and what I've seen of the credibility (sometimes the lack thereof) of people's claims in various directions, my confidence in the non-existence of the supernatural is so close to 100% that 100% is definitely the number that describes it best.

I think having an open mind is a virtue. And an open mind must be ready for any evidence for a god. This readiness curtails absolute certainty.

Can we be absolutely certain that there is no flying NoodleMonster or PastaMonster? We can only ever be certain of our own relativity. As we have zero chance of ever taking a look from the outside of the universe, we just have to content ourselves with our beliefs. Sanity commands to establish some arbitrary parameters. For me one of them is the certainty that there are no divine authorities as described by people and disguised as religions to shelter these concepts from criticism.

I don't know if a God exist or not...its simply not enough evidence to definitely say it dies..so I table that until sufficient proof comes along

You're absolutely right. I'm 99.9% certain there are no gods, through logical reasoning. But no-one can be 100% certain.

This Q is for those of 100% disbelief and why... Many people find it difficult to say 100%. I think they fear bad karma, for we are a suspicious lot. I'm 100% sure that the supernatural and all the immaterial entities that ever dwelled therein, is a mental construct of the human mind. Early humans created the supernatural to try to explain what they didn't and couldn't know. And it gave human spirits a place to go. From shamans to popes, all religions are scams that hold rituals in the supernatural realm. grogalot

You’re right. A negative is pretty much unprovable. And, I am a person quite rooted in hard science. At some point you have to collect your findings (complete or incomplete) draw conclusions and write the paper. I don’t need to await additional evidence, as every bit of evidence that has ever come in has been against the presence of gods. And, as science always is about findings of now, and drawing best conclusions with the evidence presented... and then, furthering our understanding using new experiments based on the initial conclusion... I believe this to be a wholly appropriate time to take the stance that there are no god or gods. Anything that appears, and claims to be a god in the future should be looked at as highly suspect, and likely a sham. These beings are just from another dimension, and are here to exploit us. Their Godlike powers are just technology, even though some will worship them as gods.

But, you see...to me, that paragraph still sounds like an agnostic talking preliminary findings.

Truly, in my heartest of hearts.... I’m an atheist. The world I see is governed by science. There is some science which we have a pretty good grasp on, and some that is still yet to be understood. There IS the possibility of inter dimensional beings... but ... Anything magical/mystical is simply poorly understood natural phenomenon or technology. I don’t see anything outside of that, no matter how cool and mysterious our consciousness is...or how special we want to feel...or how lucky we got in simply existing, given that there had to be no life one minute, and life in another minute, which gave rise to us. What a f’n mind-f*ck! Atheism does not diminish the amazingness that has come to be, and it begs further experimentation into seeing if we can recreate these things...like life or consciousness. But...To me, it’s open and shut. No gods. No possibility of gods. It makes utter sense to me to just move on. That’s why, I, myself, am an atheist and not an agnostic.

Define "god".

i'm what Camus described as the "absurd" man - the one who without denying the existence of god makes no preparation for the hereafter. . meaning it's unimportant. i'm here for X number years and then i'm gone.

If you say you are 100% sure of something, aren’t you also saying you can prove it? I don’t believe in any gods, but I can’t prove my belief, therefore I’m not 100% certain. Nothing like talking in circles.

I am 100% certain that I don't care either way

For the same reason that I do not believe in leprechauns and unicorns 100%

There are questions that cannot be answered by yes or no because there are no absolute certainty with the answer/s. If a being called god does exist only it can prove itself not humans. If a god does appear then the only condition that would prove it is if all humans agree it is a god. Even one disagreeing human is enough to invalidate that the creature that appeared is a god. So repeating: the burden of proof is with the god being and not humans. On a side note, if a being does convince humans that it is a god then humans must ask why it allows horrors and pain to happen to humans. The holocaust, rape of children, daily 30,000 die of starvation, thousands daily cancer deaths and it does not appear. World War 1, World War 2, the black death ... etc. . Humans can only conclude it is not a good or loving being but at best does not care. If it does not care then why would even show itself to humans? Better concentrate on making the best of life for we don’t know anything outside of human reality. We sleep everyday but people die in their sleep too! Don’t mean to scare you but human life is the only life that is proven. Human reality good or bad is the only reality.

Let me answer by questioning whether you are 100% certain that Jimmy Fallen didn't create the universe as a prop for comedy. That is no more ludicrous than the Abrahamic myths.

Ohferpetessake...had any prayers answered lately, have ya?

There used to be thought that there was a substance called the ether. This was what light was believed to travel through in the vacuum of space. Later on, we found out that light has a very small amount of mass and the ether was no longer needed to explain how light travels. Suddenly poof, no either wanted on the journey. It does not exist anymore. Why? because there is no evidence of it and it serves no purpose. Just like Thor or Poseidon, no one will be arguing for its existence. Why then argue for any other god/gods, even their possibilities?

I tell you why I am so sure there is no god! When I was just born in a religious based hospital, I got circumcised too early, I stopped breathing, turned blue, had my first near death experience, and had to have tubes shoved in my throat to breathe and eat for two weeks, I have had health problems ever since.

Luckily I was a bright child and I learned to read before kindergarten, back then my family was very religious and strict, I had a Aunt who was a Nun, I was the star pupil of my religious instruction classes, I tried many times to find my families faith, but a lot of what I came to know of my parents faith disturbed me greatly as it came off as fairy tales sprinkled with patriarchal sexist nonsense. I was Enby and Intersex so to my mind that would not do!

I had vacationed overseas in Europe as an adult, I came back from one trip sick and went right into a coma in the baggage claim at JFK airport. I was rushed to the hospital, just as I was flat-lining and I was in a coma for a month. I had a few near-death experiences in that month but the one that stuck out to me was an after-life experience, where there was no "bright light" and it was unlike most one's that I have ever read about.

I was looking down at my body and some guy tapped me on the shoulder, he took me to the roof of the hospital where it was raining, but there was a glass bus shelter, so I was told to wait with a bunch of other people, I waited so long I grew a beard, and my bus never came.

Now I figured out later that the scenario from the previous paragraph was probably induced by the morphine I was given for a spinal tap, but if for one second that scenario is truly the afterlife we are promised, what gives? How does any of that square with an all-knowing, ever-present deity of love and perfection, who looks out for his flock? It doesn't.

If some scientist came up with proof we were seeded here by some alien culture, l wouldn't be shocked. I also would not consider them Gods. l would see them as scientists conducting an experiment that went terribly wrong somewhere in the process.

Leeshi... A comment on your statement about certainty... Can we be certain that the sun will rise tomorrow? This "there is always a possibility" is a cop-out. Evidence? There can be no evidence because the supernatural is created by humans. Evidence of God? How about evidence of resurrection and an eternal soul. I heard Neil deGrasse Tyson say that he would be agnostic because there is still a chance! I wonder if he has any doubts about his resurrection? GROG