If I were an Atheist

[Mister Agenda]

Absolutely...

Again the reason the Santa to God analogy is poor (at best) is because the existence of Santa is easily falsified.

Then falsify it.

If the point it show that the existence of God is as unfalsifiable as Santa they've chosen a poor example.

I disagree, but you can easily prove me wrong by falsifying Santa.

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I wouldn't expect to find anything, I wouldn't expect you or I to be alive. I wouldn't expect living sentient beings to emerge from mindless forces that didn't plan or intend our existence. I wouldn't expect to find a universe governed by seemingly inviolable laws of physics and that those laws would result in stars, galaxies, planets (from second generation stars with the properties to create rocky matter).

Let me see if I've got this straight: existence, the thing that raises the question of why it exists, is your 'evidence' for why your particular explanation is true? That's exactly as good an argument for why, say, Paul Frampton's model for the origin of the universe is true. The difference is, it seems a little more obvious that Paul would be talking like an idiot if he said that if his model weren't true, 'I wouldn't expect anything' because science doesn't have the aura of 'it's okay to talk out of your ass' that theology does.