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What came first, the atheist or the theist?

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RE: What came first, the atheist or the theist?

July 22, 2010 at 7:36 pm

Man has been around an estimated 150,000 years The earliest known theism is only some 10,000 years old.

That means being "without belief in God" came first. Nobody needed to first posit theism for there to be people without theistic belief.

It would be like saying that the car had to be invented for people to not drive cars...

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