I went through this about 8 years ago too. In the same boat; I no longer found the arguments for theism persuasive.
What “arguments for theism” were you faced with?
Do you think DNA wrote itself? It is a computer program after all; ask computer programmers.
“Went through this...” Sounds funny. As if every believer doesn’t doubt at some point. This is the essence of faith, some doubt but have faith, some don’t have faith. You sound like it was a revelation to you. It’s the standard human condition.
Read Lee Strobel’s “Casr for a Creator. You’ll be impressed, I think. Bob
So your cognition is less than up to the understanding that the complexity of the DNA code is beyond accident?
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“I no longer found the arguments for theism persuasive.”
What did you find persuasive, in theism’s stead?
1. Your belief in argumentation itself assumes, without justification, that there are prescriptive, abstract, universal, unchanging laws of logic and reason.
2. Your belief also assumes, without justification, that the unaided reason of a finite individual that is limited in the scope of its use and experiences can pronounce on what is universally true (descriptively) or is in a position to dictate (prescriptively) universal laws of reason and to assure us that these prescriptions for the brain will somehow prove applicable to the ever-changing world of matter in motion outside your individual brain.
Cordially,