This I believe..Or rather, don't believe.

Why I prefer Science over Religion

When I was younger, I used to be a Christian and go to church. I would go with my grandma most Sundays and Wednesdays. But, as I got older, I tended to go less and less, and it probably completely stopped when I was around ten or eleven. I stopped going because I found things like the stories and books in the Bible to be illogical. I found that the statements didn’t make much sense when put up against scientific fact. I became an atheist when I was around 12. That was around the time I really started to use science in my everyday life. I am an atheist because I prefer scientific facts over stories in a book that tell about an invisible deity who created the world and everything on it in seven days. To me, this seems completely impossible with no chance of happening.

I mostly try to focus on Cosmology and Evolutionary science. I believe that over many, many generations, gradual or large scale change can happen, helping people and animals survive today. I believe that The Big Bang created everything that helped form what we have today. From planets to everything that is inside of you and I. There is enough evidence for these things that makes me accept them as the truth. I, as an individual, do not see the need for a “God figure” when everything needed for life can be created naturally. Atheism allows me make scientific statements without having to worry about contradicting a holy book and being punished for it in some afterlife in a different state of being.

One of the mains things about atheism that sticks out to me is that I have logic and reasoning on my side. I use these tools everyday to assess different situations. I also use these tools when looking at evidence for things like the big bang and evolution. Why would a “God” create more evidence for these theories being real, rather than for them self being real, then punish people for all eternity for accepting these things. See, to me, that is illogical and doesn’t make any sense at all.

This is the last thing I am going to write about in this essay, but to me, it is the most important. During my daily life, I do not have to worry about pleasing a God of any kind. That to me takes a little bit of weight off of my shoulders knowing this. I go through life being happy most of the time, and personally, I don’t need a God or higher power to be happy. I need things like my family and friends, because in the end, they are the people who are really there for me. My family and friends are the people I need here on Earth, through good times or bad.