i dont know. its as simple as that....so i guess the word athiest can be in a way vague, i dont chase the answers, and i dont care ...i just look at science and what we kno, and use those things to form my opinions, plus and athiest fam to influence my personal enlightenment lol and i just live my life, when we die, we all shall see, but based on what i kno, i dont think anything happenes, i think we cease to exist, because when you think about it its very arrogant to only believe that humans are special, does a lilttle fucking goldfish go to heaven or have an afterlife???i bet a lot of religious ppl have never even pondered that
i think humans are the arrogant ones for a reason.
we were created in the image of god himself. we were given characteristics not unlike his. we carry his similarities with us becasue we are his "children"
we were given free will and an evolving thought process. things that god himself has infinitately since he possesses everything in perfection.
and while i do not think that other creatures simply cease to exist, i do not think of them as equa to us either. we are special. and everything we know, was created for us.
i do not think we are his only children. the vastness of space is there for a reason, as far as im concerned, and a few others that i have discussed this with.
the big bang and the current contruction of our universe took a millenia to bring about. god is timeless. to him, that millenia had no toll. he created the earth, and the oceans, and the rest in what the bible calls "days". a day to god is not something we can understand, if god is not limited by time, he is not bound by "a day"
the big bang was gods creation, the big bang was god creating. the evolution of the planet was gods creating. god made the earth "and a day later" made the oceans. this is evolution, and im seriously simplfying the shit out of this becasue my thesis on this is actually 7 pages long. evolution and the big bang was god. science is god. does anyone follow?
im gonna drudge my report up from last years theology class. its on my laptop somewhere and i go into much better detail on all of this and tie in evolution and science directly to god in ways even a 6 year old can understand.