Why Something Rather Than Nothing?

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If pressed most atheist would claim that abiogenesis happens or has happened somewhere. At least that is my experience after countless discussion with them. Maybe I am wrong...maybe atheists secretly believe there is an intelligent agent out there somewhere....that creates life.

Must you cling to such simplistic binaries even in the face of an actual correction?

As I said, this isn't a distinct believe/not believe at all thing: what you're seeing from atheists is recognition that abiogenesis is the theory which currently has the most support. The smart man apportions his belief in accordance with the evidence, and simply acknowledging that abogenesis is miles more supported than, say, creation is very different from complete conviction that it occurred.

When pressed, I doubt you'll find too many of us that won't admit that ultimately, we don't yet know the answer. But then, your whole position is kind of malformed anyway, since you're trying to claim that all atheists believe something, when we aren't some monolithic bloc with a singular view. We're disparate people who happen to have the same position on a single claim.

Anyways all you have regarding abiogenesis is an unproven hypothesis. If you believe it happened, you believe in something which has not be shown to be true. Surgenator's claim that atheists don't believe things which are not shown to be true is clearly false. Why you want to defend a claim which is clearly wrong is perplexing.

You're not very good with nuance, are you?