First of all --- your avatar is disturbingly disgusting. Must not be any little kids around your house?
2) I appreciate you taking the time to attempt to address many of my points. But this raises a second thought --- what is your objectives for your short years of existence? Is this what gives you satisfaction and pleasure? I am only curious, not trying to be too critical.
No, there are no children around my house nor do I find it particularly disturbing. I rather like the Spartans.
Life is what you make of it. Some people make it their life's mission to help others. Others try to perfect a skill. They may strive to become a great musician. Or they may want to become an admired politician who will change things for the better. They want to experience the love and kindness of others while, at the same time, giving others love and kindness. For me, my purpose in life is to strive to run for office and institute democratic reforms that will better my country. But it's also to raise a family, make friends, and enjoy life to its fullest.
Your objection to evolution should not rest on whether or not you find purpose in life.
3) For me personally, if I were one who thought once I die that's it, life is over ---- I would seriously go mad. I could not continue with that terrifying and morbid thought. I mean, just how important is life if it is so quickly obliterated and forgotten? (spare me the "good qualities you may pass on to your offspring, etc." because even that becomes moot and valueless over time)
Why? It's not terrifying and morbid at all. It's rather beautiful. Spacedust around the universe, over time, formed in such a way through chemistry, physics, biology, and geology, to eventually form me. And for my short time on Earth, I not only have the power to positively affect the lives of others and experience the world to its fullest, I get to learn how that spacedust eventually formed me, first by making a solar system that includes the Earth, then by possessing conditions suitable for making a self-replicating molecule, then through evolution, reaching such biodiversity and complexity that we are created. And not only that, we have the power, through science, to communicate with each other instantly over huge distances, build skyscrapers, cure diseases, and more. Then when it is our time, we return to the Earth. Our bodies decompose. Our nutrients are released to the soil to create new life. Life that others will enjoy for their short time and eventually recycle for more life. It makes you appreciate what you have on Earth, it makes you strive to learn what science has to say about how we got here, and fully and truly appreciate the fruits of the Earth.
5) The good news for you: there are some atheists in heaven, especially if they are super kind and charitable and humble and so on ---- IOW, very hard to find (even among the Christian ranks). The bad news --- most people in hell did not believe it existed. Those are the words of the Virgin Mary.
If you must be utterly terrified into being a good person, not a perfect person, but a good person, by your God, your God is not worth worshipping. Your God probably doesn't exist. Hell probably doesn't exist. And instead of spending your precious short life worrying about giving handjobs to God, you can spend that time loving your family, laughing with your friends, learning with your peers, sweating with your co-workers, and entertaining strangers.
I just wish you could see past the dogma and truly appreciate the beauty of evolution for what it is; that we are all in a state of constant, gradual change. That we are creatures who adapt to our environment. Your belief in God is your own choice. But at the very least, I plead with you, never to reject evidence because of the consequences it may have on your faith. If you are devoted to truth, it will transcend and shatter your preconceived notions that a God exists and that evolution is false.
