Atheism and the existence of peanut butter

[Rahn127]

Klor - the assertion "the universe began to exist" which has a perfectly clear meaning.

When you say the universe, are you referring to the current universe, as in a collection of galaxies and clusters of galaxies, black holes, peculiar stellar objects, massive voids, etc

The first galaxies formed roughly 500 million years or less after the initial inflation event.
That's a long time for something you think was magically "created" in the snap of a finger or the twitch of a nose.

As it turns out, the details matter and the idea that something begins to exist isn't actually very clear.

When does a baby become a child ?
When does a child become a toddler ?
When does a toddler become a kid ?

When did each of these stages "begin to exist" ?
Each day a child grows and they look exactly or nearly exactly the same as they looked yesterday, but yet all those small changes add up and if you think about when you began to exist, the you that you are now, when would you say that happened ?

When did the adult you begin to exist ?

It's not such a clear beginning is it.