For future reference, "alternative facts" are not the same thing as facts
Atheists have no facts to support their arguments, they cannot make a factual claim about god. Nor are they interested in evaluating the evidence that suggests rebirth and etheric beings. Atheists will claim that mind is a product of the brain but this is not a fact and has actually been dis-proven, so factually it is atheists who need to evaluate what is truly fact.
They do not even have an answer to the evidence suggestive of reincarnation!
52 percent of adult Americans believe that encounters with the dead are possible.
Atheists should carefully evaluate the evidence, here are 20 cases that I have not already mentioned:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty_Cases_Suggestive_of_Reincarnation#Published_resultsand about 40 more that I keep mentioning:
http://www.aeces.info/Top40/top40-main.shtmlAnother famous case: The account of James Chaffin's will is a case that truly seems suggestive of
survival of the human personality after death.
Why does the OP say that awareness is an oasis between two deserts of nothingness? It is more elegant and far easier to accept as a working hypothesis that sentience exists as a potential at the source of creation, and the strongest evidence has already been put on the table:
Everything to be observed in the universe implies consciousness.
If you are called to the scene of a house break-in, there is nothing stolen, there is no sign of struggle, no blood, no empty cases, and NO BODY, it would only be logical to conclude that there was no murder committed.
Th same goes for your God, there is no physical evidence to conclude otherwise.
What you think is evidence is a product of your imagination. Not a real physical evidence.
This is the deception of religion. They inspire people that God is a material being and has an impact on all life on earth, but as soon as it comes to evidence they say that God is immaterial and therefore to prove his existence impossible.
Atheist means believing no religion but I am an atheist and I only believe God. Wherever you turn your eyes it points to a beautiful creation which cannot have been created randomly. This must have been created by a greater being , unnatural being.
atheist
[ey-thee-ist]
1. a person who denies or disbelieves the existence of a supreme being or beings.
deny
[dih-nahy]
verb (used with object), denied, denying.
1. to state that (something declared or believed to be true) is not true:
to deny an accusation.
2. to refuse to agree or accede to:
to deny a petition.
3. to withhold the possession, use, or enjoyment of:
to deny access to secret information.
4. to withhold something from, or refuse to grant a request of:
to deny a beggar.
5. to refuse to recognize or acknowledge; disown; disavow; repudiate:
to deny one's gods.
6. to withhold (someone) from accessibility to a visitor:
The secretary denied his employer to all those without appointments.
7. Obsolete. to refuse to take or accept.
Idioms
8. deny oneself,
disbelieve
[dis-bi-leev]
verb (used with object), disbelieved, disbelieving.
1. to have no belief in; refuse or reject belief in:
to disbelieve reports of UFO sightings.
verb (used without object), disbelieved, disbelieving.
2. to refuse or reject belief; have no belief.
The point? A person doesn't have a blank opinion when it comes to something that he denies or disbelieves. Rather, he simply accepts or believes something else. There isn't any void in the thinking of a person.
Atheism is a religion.
