I can't believe how desperate some people have to get in order to defend their beliefs, it is sincerely sad to see. FHN you are smarter than that and we are talking about millions of dead people.
Snare, do you even know what my beliefs are? If you're thinking that I am a Christian, then please, take note: I am not.
Snare, realistically, people are going hug right up to the coastline. For using the fact that the occasional tsunami comes and drowns people who live at the coastline, to prove atheism though, it doesn't work. I can understand the line of thought. Why? Why do things like this happen and kill many people at once and leave distruction? We understand somewhat, why tsunamis happen. We also understand that they destroy human settlements and life within a certain distance of the coast. People have known about "tidal waves", hurricanes, typhoons, cyclones, tornados, earthquakes for centuries. It's very simple: pay heed to history because if you don't, it's destined to repeat its self. Now, if I decide I'm moving back to the coastline, I can make a decision to buy a house right on the coast, or I can buy 50 miles inland. The closer I move to the coast, the more I up my chances of being stranded and drowning should a hurricane hit. If I choose to buy a dog, I up my chances of being bit by a dog. It's simplistic to deduce that there isn't a god because nature roars or dogs bite.
What you call desperation, is actually people who find the existence of god(s) more logical than the inexistence of god(s). People that find the existence of everything, the super complexities of the material and conscious world, unexplainable by the godless theory. Self awareness alone, I find to be unexplainable with the atheistic theories. For me, the strictly materialistic person is capable of some pretty incredible, even magical, thinking to dream that conscious, intelligent, self awareness could ever be explained through the big bang and evolution, by themselves. It would be egotistical really, for any of us to think that we are the only intelligent beings, that only beings who happen to have bodies made from material, that we can touch or see, in this dimension, can be real.
Atheists aren't alone among people who reason and think very deeply about science and life. We don't all look at what goes on in this world and draw the same conclusions. I think atheism is incredible, but I understand how people come to that conclusion. I do not agree with the atheistic conclusion, but it is valid, even if simply because people come to different conclusions. Viva la difference. As long as people aren't hurting each other or nature, I'm fine with the difference.