I was an atheist

Written by Zhey Chua |Posted on November 13, 2008 | Comments

It’s been awhile since I last visited Ray Comfort’s blog so I have not been updated with all that is going on until just now.

Well, not much out there really, except Ray’s usual articles that aim to debunk common atheistic claims. And then, of course, there’s this article on which came first, the chicken or the egg, which made me realize one thing: I was an atheist. Here’s what Ray had written:

Which came first–the chicken or the egg? [Without "the book of beginnings" (the Book of Genesis) to tell us that God made the chicken first (see Genesis 1:20), we are merely guessing as to its genesis. If an atheist believes it was a chicken, where did it come from, and how was it given life when there was no egg from which to hatch? If it evolved without an egg, why did evolution change its mind and introduce eggs, if it was doing okay without them. Also, why and when did a rooster become necessary to fertilize the egg so that a chicken would form within it, and which came first, that rooster or its egg? If the atheist maintains that the egg came first, who then made it, (and again) who fertilized it, and who sat on it so that it would hatch? And that’s just the beginning of the beginnings dilemma. Which came first--the eagle or its egg? How about the duck? The owl, the kiwi, the tiny humming bird, and the big old albatross? There is no end to it, if you reject “In the Beginning God created..."].

That question on which came first has been going around since I was in grade school, it was a mysterious question that I have seriously pondered on at certain times in the past and really, I, too, wanted Scientific evidence and when I could not find any, I dismissed the thought as “genetic mutation”. Hah! Now I realize I did rely too much on Scientific explanations, and reading Ray’s blog also reminded me of a time when I watched something on National Geographic that explained how an algae turned into a fish as it travelled through the Amazon River AND THEN I proselytized my nieces and nephew to that! Yay. I was such an ignorant fool, and yet, I gloried in how my nieces and nephew believed and hung on every word I said to them. I believe at one point my sixteen year old niece even said something like, “so that’s how living things become what they are, Tita?” and I affirmed without thinking that I am also a “living thing”.

Anyway, so this drives me to conclude now that I was an atheist. Just not your hardcore, “scholastic” and “genius” atheist but I was probably on my way to being one had I delved into Sciences too much.

Thank God I was found before it was too late.