Q and A with a Past Atheist

One of the most frequent questions I get as a Christian is 
"How can anyone believe all 'this' happened by random chance?"
"This" of course is referring to the galaxies, the human body and mind, butterflies, water, beehives and platypus.
Good question, but as a past atheist, I can assure you that indeed atheists do believe in  random chance and macro evolution. They have no other choice.

The optimum word here is "believe."
It is a belief. Just like Christians believe in a God they have never seen, atheists do indeed believe in naturalism - all things come from nature; there is no supernatural. 
Part of this is pride. We don't want anything above us.
Part of it is pure faith.

When I was a little girl, my Mom made sure no one joked around with me to the extent I would believe something that was wrong. For instance, "if you eat a raw potato, you'll have potatoes growing in your belly," or "if you eat a grape seed, you'll have grape vines growing out your mouth" .
My Mom understood that kids will "believe" pretty much anything people in authority tell them. Like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny...

God has given everyone faith enough to believe. The thing is we can choose to have faith in the wrong thing.
The faith of a child is powerful and what we are taught as children, especially by those in authority, runs deep. When we read books that talk about "millions of years ago" by the time we are three, when we are immersed in museums that explain everything by evolution, when we watch cartoons or TV shows and read comics that have an evolutionary agenda, when we are taught science, read literature and study history and geography using curriculum inundated with evolutionary explanations, and we are NOT taught there is anything wrong with this way of thinking, we become indoctrinated early to the naturalist explanation of our world.

The Nazi's understood this. Propaganda works because we hear the same message enough times by numerous sources. It must be true.

It becomes  very "believable." 

Even now, 33 years after rejecting that worldview and accepting the supernatural and a God who created all things, I can still taste the belief that once existed. I can still understand why, if all you've heard was evolution as an explanation, it would make sense.
I can also understand, that for someone who just cannot stand the thought of there being a God, they too would passionately demand another explanation.

So how does anyone believe all "this" could be random chance. 

They are told it is, faith sprouts, and pride prevails.

Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.

 Hebrews 11:6 And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him.

If you have a question you'd like to ask a 'past atheist now Christian', please use the comment box. I will do my best to answer from my personal history as an atheist.