I take it you're not being serious?

Ok,but why praying?
You don

regardless of existance or not, the only thing to be cretain of, is my own existence.  That being said, i think we're nothing but mere animals(perhaps created by god or radiated oxyidated carbon), Humans evolved consousnous' because that ability is more favourable in nature, therfore, we humans proliferated until we dominated.

if god created all life, does the H1N1 go to hell when it kills an inocent child? since when is Gods' favors exlusive to only humans? what about an animal that does not have the ability to pray, such as a cat? to they stay in purgatory for not believing?

all i'm saying, is IF god exists, would i be punished for not believing? considering that i was born with the right to choose not to? and if god doesn't like sin and non-believers, why did he create us in the first place?

above all, who says God even cares about us? it has been said that the most simplest answer is the best one.  could it be possable that god created life for entertainment, or even on accident? 

i respect your right to believe in god. but isn't it just as likely for you to be wrong just as much as an atheist can be wrong? given that logic, do you think that our definition of right and wrong may be totally different from God's point of view? is it possable that all of your prayers annoy the hell out of him? and i go to heaven cuz i left him alone, and you bothered him too much and you go to hell?

i'm kinda jumping all over the place because i have so many questions, as you did with us atheists. please take my questions seriously, because i expect a serious answer, i'm not knocking your faith, i'm simply asking hard questions to have a better understanding of your reasons.

"we are the only species that has evolved consournous', right? if it is a favourable ability, you would think that more species would of evolved it...  it would be like only 1 species of birds ever existed or something..."

i believe dolphins have developed consousnous. but never mind that... humans are "top-feeders" this means that our proliferation and dominance prevent other species from attaining more dominant than ourselves.

"the typical religious review is that God created Humans in his own image; not that we physically resemble God but that we have consciousness. heaven, hell, and purgatory are states of consciousness, so only humans would go to any... "

thanx for clearing that up.

"i dont see what your previous logic has to do with this question, but i do agree that our definition of right and wrong might be totally different from God's.... "

previous logic was assertained by the logic that mankind was made in god's image and man has different piont of view, so god should too. right?

"i find it hard to beleive a God would be so petty...  also, if something would seriously annoy God, why would he have created it in the first place?"

i agree with that.

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i believe dolphins have developed consousnous. but never mind that... humans are "top-feeders" this means that our proliferation and dominance prevent other species from attaining more dominant than ourselves."

we have been able to prevent species for becoming more dominant than ourselves for how long? maybe 2k years? a tiny amount of time in terms of evolution...

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previous logic was assertained by the logic that mankind was made in god's image and man has different piont of view, so god should too. right?"

ah, ok, i think i see what you're saying..i would simply take a look at the world. acknowledge that there are many parts that we consider bad or evil, and if an all powerful being thought so too, he would probably not of created them.... and then also it seems fairly unlikely that an all powerful being and humans would share the exact same values...

Perhaps he is saying that because there is such a void in truth, such a
gap between what we know and what we think, that perhaps that void
could be filled with an unknown belief -- since we are only on this planet
for less then 100 years anyway, why not just pick a random belief (in this
case God) and just stick with it.

Or he could be on crack...

he is an infinte being, he isnt rewarded with your devotion and prayers... you're rewarded with your devotion and prayers...

Ok with regards to the title you don't "decide" to believe anything, you either do or you don't.  If your belief is a concious choice it means you're lying to yourself.  For example I choose to believe that the universe is balanced in terms of good and evil, I know it isn't but it's a pleasant delusion.

"I find the theories of abiogenesis inadequate and I don't give a crap about what happened after that. The lack of explanation for the formation of the first life form is a death sentence for atheism."

No.  The lack of information is just that, a lack of information and holds little to no bearing on whether or not God exists.  Before we knew what caused thunder and lightning people believed it was the work of God, clearly they were wrong.  Being unable to prove A true, or even proving it false, does not validate B.  For example if given the equation 2x + 4 = 13 I come up with the answer of x = 3 (and fail elementary math) while someone else comes up with x = 7 (also fails math) does my answer being wrong make his right?  The only possible "death sentence" for atheism would be undeniable, empirical proof of God's existence, which given the nature of God isn't possible.

"Life created by chance wouldn't really have choice."

Who says we do?  What we perceive as choice may simply be our inability to understand all the factors of our existence that lead us to a single unavoidable outcome.

the neanderthal wasnt assimilated and wasnt killed off, they died on their own... i dont know enough about the others, and the three examples you gave are very closely related... you dont see any more foreign species developing it, like you do with other advantageous features...

they died on their own because there was a climate change and food in the wooded areas became scarce, they needed to hunt on the open plains,  but the neanderthals were quite bad at that.

this is so gonna be fun, 3 different stories of how the neanderthals went extinct from 3 people, none citing sources...