As I have submitted in my previous posts on the topic of atheism, there is no scientific evidence for the existence of a supreme being. In this discussion, I'd also like to point out that such an entity is not even necessary in order explain the events that occur in the course of our lives, or for that matter, life itself..
Theists attribute the reason for these happenings as a divine plan or God's will and purpose. But the more likely answer is simple randomness by which such incidents have a cause but not a purpose behind them. Examples are illness and mishaps. These misfortunes can--and do--strike all kinds of people. And there's really no reason why bad things to happen to good people or vice versa. No one is being singled out.
Despite the natural calamities that have besieged life from its very beginning and which have wiped out most organisms through the eons,such as the Permian-Triassic extinction also known as The Great Dying which occurred about 250 million years ago and which spelled the doom of 90% of all marine land much of land life at that time, the ancestors of humankind survived and adapted. These are our forbears from whom we developed. And all the evidence for this process points to evolution by natural selection as the source of our turning out to be the complex creatures, complete with heartaches and joys, that we've eventually become--no assembly by a sky daddy required.
