(April 5, 2016 at 2:15 am)robvalue Wrote: Another false dichotomy.
It could have happened by magic time pixies.
It could have appeared out of nowhere.
It could have jumped in from a parallel dimension.
It could be projected from a glitch in the self-assembling computer code which governs reality.
Atheists don't have to be sceptics. And atheists don't necessarily believe there is no God, either. They just lack belief that there is, by default.
There is no "atheist worldview". Weak atheists are simply undecided about what is the case.
If you accept that the earth is 4.5 billion years old and the universe is finite (13.5 Billion years old) then at some point there was no life at all. Since we now have life, and you take the position that God is not responsible for it, then abiogenesis is the only other option available to you. The mechanism of how that occurred is debatable but I don't see how it could be avoided as the default position in a God-less scenario.