RE: Is Atheism a religion?

“After all, just saying “Nature did it” does not explain anything, predict anything, nor does it resolve the question of How it was accomplished.”

Anonymous, are you not able to see that the statement “God did it” equally “does not explain anything, predict anything, nor does it resolve the question of How it was accomplished.”
You just shift the explanation problem from the visible world, to this huge invisible creator entity about whom there are any number of questions:

Where did God come from?
Did he just pop out of nowhere or was he always there?
What’s he made of?
What’s he up to?
How did He make all this?
What from?
What will he do next?
Where is he?
Why can’t we see him?

And that’s all before you even start on the usual questions like why does he allow evil?

You just end up with a pile of additional – and unanswerable – questions, on top of the existing ones about Nature.
Much easier to stick with Nature – at least we can see that.

Paul Harrison
World Pantheism
http://www.pantheism.net