I find it rather amusing that even in this day and age of freethinkers, people scoff or give me the frozen-in-time paganist treatment when i announce my being an atheist. It's either that or the you've-caught-the-i-don't-believe-fad bug. For YOUR Pete's sake, give me a break. If i can be accommodating and at worst tolerant to all Gods and their believers, i can't see why there can't be a place for us agnostics.
I've always managed to conveniently steer myself to places more than an earshot's distance away from talk about God, divinity, religion and people who question my reasons. I'll also admit that i'm not confrontational when the use of arms, fists, jabs and punches are disallowed. But then there was this girl i met recently who seemed to have a different question for me, and on a hunch, i let her go ahead with it...
'What?', I said with narrowed eyes.
'How do you explain miracles?', she questioned.
'What?', I repeated my word.
'Miracles. Doctors, scientists, engineers, philosophers have all entrusted God for the same reason', she surmised.
'Well that makes me the outlaw then', I smirked. 'Those are people who are willing to look beyond reason, logic and science. I ain't one of them.'
'Well... so how does your understanding of math or science for that matter explain miracles?', she persisted...
After little thought, 'Miracles are zero probability events. Just because they have a probability of zero doesn't mean they can't happen.'
