A question to all atheists!

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You turn up here thinking you have all the answers. You think you know more than the greatest scientific minds in the world. It's the narrow minded arrogance of someone who hasn't yet properly learned how to think. You have actual people here who know a fuck load more than you do, and you dismiss them.

Someone who thinks they already have all the answers cannot learn anything.

Okay, so let's make the following assumption: a floaty magical thing which is timeless but can somehow act, and exists but isn't anywhere, suddenly decided it would be a swell idea to have some talking apes glued to a rock surrounded by acres of deadly atmosphere. So it non-specifically engineered a series of events so that this would happen.

Is this a reasonable starting assumption to make, before we start to even analyse reality and its origins?

Here's a couple of "atheist" explanations for you. This whole thing has nothing to do with atheism. If you want to be good at philosophy, you need to learn what words mean. [I'm not interested in your responses anymore, I'm just writing for people at home.]

1) In another reality, with its own independent timeline, a computer simulation was executed. The simulation manifested itself as our reality, in such a way as to appear to have an infinite or a finite past, as you please. The beings in the parent reality may or may not have any idea about this manifestation, or that elements of it have become self aware.

2) Magic magic soup fairies did everything. They're not gods, they are dream noodly ghost things. Not all atheists are sceptics.