Why I Don't Believe in God Pt. 3

Agnosticism/Pantheism;
For years after I stopped lending serious thought to specific gods, I still believed "There is something more going on". Of course, like myself at the time, what people usually mean when they say that is "there is something supernatural going on". Because our expanding knowledge of how life, the universe and everything works isn't good enough to satisfy the idea of "something more".

We want to believe that there's 'something more' to a rainbow, but for some reason "light traveled almost 100 million miles through space, from a mass of hydrogen that is constantly collapsing and exploding simultaneously and has the mass of over a million earths, entered our atmosphere and was refracted through millions of falling droplets of water at an angle that caused each drop to reveal different portions of the spectrum of light to show as it fell, causing a stationary rainbow effect" apparently isn't as interesting as "there's a pot of gold at the end."

The view that I've come to see is that the answers given by rational inquiry are always more interesting that the ones we've made up. And more importantly, they allow us to discover questions we had never known to ask before, and find answers that can change our lives in unexpected and wonderful ways.

But back then, I thought it was more open minded to believe anything. I thought that human knowledge was too limited to answer any important questions, and that believing otherwise was being closed-minded and self-centered. I still believed that a god was possible, and even probable. I also believed in psychics, astral projection, etc. But that all ended with a question about trees...

(Continued in Why I Don't Believe in a Soul)