Greetings one and all.
I’m a 19-year-old Computer Science and Mathematics major at Andrews University, Berrien Springs. I’ve grown up Seventh-Day Adventist Christian, and now call myself agnostic-atheist, and would put myself at #5 on Dawkin’s hierachy of unbelief ("Technically agnostic but leaning towards atheism,” The God Delusion, p. 50)
My search for truth began in earnest when I was sitting in a London youth hostel three years ago, and began writing in a tattered little travel notebook about some thoughts inspired by Simon Blackburn’s Think. Since then I’ve filled almost a dozen handwritten notebooks and a couple of typed binders with philosophical meanderings.
However, the greatest power that move’s man soul, IMO, is social. John Locke called it the “fear of being disesteemed.” The majority of my extended family are well educated Christians that merit my respect, and I’m attending a Christian University that’s filled with academics who can make cogent-sounding arguments for creationism (Most SDA’s are old-earth creationists). Thus my journey towards atheism has been tentative and slow, but fairly sure and steady. I doubt enough to make a Christian uncomfortable, but am neutral enough in my skepticism to annoy the more vehement brand of atheist as well.
Oh, and lastly, I’m a Linux user
, and have a part time job as a [Windoze] programmer (http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/aucas)
SigmaX
EDIT: Link to my home page: http://www.SigmaX.org
