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[Fidel_Castronaut]

Imagine a planet much like our earth forms somewhere in the galaxy. Abiogenesis(the process of life arising from non living constituents) occurs around a volcanic vent deep the planet's primordial ocean. For the sake of discussion just imagine these first simple beings pondering their environment. They would ask why their god made such a vast ocean all of which except a tiny spot around the volcanic vent is lethal to its existence. The atheists among these most simple creatures would say "aha....this is evidence there is no god for a god would not create such vast barren wastelands".

A billion years passes and life has evolved and moved beyond the volcanic vent to fill the entire ocean. For the sake of discussion just imagine these more evolved beings pondering their environment. They would ask why their god made such a vast world of the atmosphere, land, and ocean...the majority of which is lethal to the existence of these more evolved creatures. The atheists among these more evolved creatures would say, "aha....this is evidence there is no god for a god would not create such vasts barren wastelands"

Three or four more billion years passes and life evolves even further still such that it now flies in the atmosphere and craws about the land. At night these even more evolved creatures would look up at their sky and ponder their environment. They would observe that their world is but a tiny speck in a vast landscape which is lethal to their existence. There would surely be atheists among those even more evolved creatures who would say, "aha....this is evidence there is no god...for a god would not create such vast barren wastelands". However a few of these beings have evolved something called foresight and imagine a day when life masters and makes fruitful the environment that the pessimistic and short sighted atheists call a wasteland.

Actually I think the atheist life forms would just be asking for the theist life forms to back up their claims that a god created anything at all.

Never know, maybe the theist life forms in your scenario would be able to do something the human theists never have; back up their God claims with something of substance rather than nothing at all.