Atheism isn’t an Absence in belief

On 9/3/2010 3:23 PM, DanielSan wrote:
> On 9/3/2010 10:26 AM, Beam Me Up Scotty wrote:
>> On 9/2/2010 11:47 PM, Free Lunch wrote:
>>> On Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:53:09 -0400, Beam Me Up Scotty
>>> @&*$?%Blackhole.NebulaX.com> wrote in alt.atheism:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>>> DanielSan wrote:
>>>>>>> On 9/1/2010 4:42 PM, Free Lunch wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 19:15:11 -0400, “Scout”
>>>>>>>> wrote in alt.atheism:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> DanielSan wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On 9/1/2010 3:31 PM, IlBeBa…@gmail.com wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> That question needs to be asked of atheism which is based on
>>>>>>>>>>> faith , thereby making it religious also.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Atheism isn’t based on faith.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Already addressed and refuted.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Atheism is not based on faith.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Now try something which hasn’t already been refuted.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> What was refuted?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Scout thinks that to not believe in anything that doesn’t have
>>>>>>> evidence requires faith…………………
>>>>
>>>> SO how did life begin and do you have evidence or faith in it.
>>>
>>> There is evidence that life began. This is a necessary conclusion from
>>> the evidence that the universe could not support life throughout its
>>> history. Faith has nothing to do with it.
>>
>> We have seen all planets and all space?
>
> At one point in time, the entirety of the universe was extremely small
> and extremely hot.
>
> There is no evidence that life could’ve existed in such an environment.

interesting point, but not totally explaining how life got here….
there may be ways that life migrated from external sources. The
universe may not be impenetrable. We just don’t know how we would
travel in or out of it.