Does that leap of faith make you "Brighter" than someone who does believe there is a Creator?
I disagree.
Christianity is not the only belief system that exists. To others Buddhism makes the most sense to explain reality, or Islam, or Hindu, etc. All the believers of their individual faiths believe their god(s) explain their existance.
That's true. And ultimately one is right.
Science explains most of what I see everyday.
Science is good. Modern science was conceived by Christians -- the Bacons, Francis and Roger, and Descartes.
I just do not believe that there is a God(s) behind it.
It takes a greater faith to believe we are here by accident.
Really? I don't see how it's possible to prove the nonexistence of God, especially the Deist version who kicks off the universe and then doesn't interfere.
In one of the Apostle Paul's sermons (addressed to the Jews, God-fearing Gentiles, Epicureans, Stoics, and whoever else happened to be present) he said,
"The God who made the world and all things in it, since He is Lord of heaven and of earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands; nor is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things; and He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation, that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; for in Him we live and move and exist, as even some of your own poets have said,
"For we also are His children."
Being then the children of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and thought of man.
Therefore, having overlooked the time of ignorance, God is now declaring to men that all people everywhere should repent, because He has fixed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness through a Man whom He has appointed, having furnished proof to all men by raising Him from the dead" (Acts 17:24-31).
The proof of God's existence and His demands to repent have been shown through the resurrection, and yet all men have not believed upon Him. That is not surprising, because the Lord Jesus Christ attributed it to man's sinfulness and taught it through the parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus.
We're told by Jesus in Luke 16:19-31 that a rich man went to Hades, and Lazarus went to Abraham's bosom. The rich man pleaded with Abraham and begged him to send Lazarus to his father's house to warn his five brothers, so that they would "not also come to this place of torment."
Abraham told the rich man that they had Moses and the Prophets (the OT), and they should listen to them. The rich man doesn't think this is good enough, and says, "No, father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent (v.30)!"
What was Abraham's response? "If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded even if someone rises from the dead (v.31)."
Biblical faith is not a blind faith, "hoping" that God actually exists. It is rooted in the reality of the resurrection, which is a historical fact. God has furnished the proof -- that proof is either to be accepted or rejected.
Humbly submitted,
Scott