(September 17, 2012 at 8:41 pm)Vincenzo "Vinny" G. Wrote: If we didn't have an explanation, we would look bad.
Why should we look bad?
So we invent explanations.
No, that's theists. Like you, Vinny.
Atheists are quite happy to say "I don't know".
It is theists that have a desire for a neatly packaged, easy answer to every question.
You are currently experiencing a lucky and very brief window of awareness, sandwiched in between two periods of timeless and utter nothingness. So why not make the most of it, and stop wasting your life away trying to convince other people that there is something else? The reality is obvious.