(November 2, 2014 at 1:16 pm)His_Majesty Wrote: But as an atheist, here is what you have to believe...you have to believe that billions of years ago before humanity, dead matter was floating around in space...and for whatever reason, suddenly, this dead matter "came to life". Not only did it come to life, but it came to life and began thinking, talking, and having sex.In a way, atheists and theists see this in exactly the same way. We both believe that life came from a state of non-life. Christians just say that they can't understand it, therefore God. However, to the the atheist, the God question is more puzzling than the life question. God in his infinite everything requires a much more elaborate answer than the origins of life. At least in looking at life, there is something for us to study. This is not the case with God.
Furthermore, while it may be true that there are no concrete answers to the origin of life, it is essentially quitting the game to posit God, for this stops the need to question. I don't have the answers, but I sure love asking those questions, and that's not possible once you create a supernatural answer.