Quote:Most atheists avoid these questions like the plague.
We don't avoid the question at all, we merely do not assume to be true what cannot be demonstrated.
Quote:If anyone questions the ability of mindless lifeless forces to create a universe with life and mind its chalked up to personal incredulity, which actually means a lack of faith.
With no compelling reason outside of one's own desires to have faith, this is the only honest conclusion one can draw.
Quote:If someone told me a laptop was created unintentionally by mindless forces I would be incredulous of such a claim (barring solid evidence such could or did occur), if someone told me the pyramids were the result of time and chance I'd be incredulous.
And yet, it is incorrect to be incredulous about a being which created the universe? I can watch laptops being constructed. I can always trace that process back to the specific intelligent beings who are responsible for making them. Every laptop in the world can be traced back to an intelligent designer. Who has ever watched God make a universe?