Atheists and theists are very alike, no?

Question

An Atheist has to profess somewhere in their "logic" that original matter must have always been; because for evolution to occur there must be pre-existing matter. Therefore they believ in an eternal and unexplainable original matter.

Much like a theist who believes in the unexplainable, originator; the creator of all creatures. He is eternal and our knowledge ends there much like an atheist who can't pinpoint where exactly matter came from (since it must've always ebeen there).

Piece.

I could say the same about God "I wasn't there when He created it and I don't know."

Answer 1

While your hypothesis is fine in principle, in practice I prefer to say that we do not have the capacity to understand what happened but shouldn't just put it down to some 'creator of all creatures'.

I wish I had the answer, but I don't think that we will ever know.

BTW, which piece?

Answer 2

No. I don't have to profess anything. I can simply say, "I wasn't there and I don't know for sure. I can study the evidence just like you can, and extrapolating known laws of the universe across time can shed light on the truth. However, I'll never have the perfect truth, and that's ok."

A religious person can't admit that.

Additional details: except there's no evidence to support the assumption that God created everything. Note I am saying that I do not know anything and am not making an assumption; by claiming God created everything, you are making an assumption.

Answer 3

I'm confused by your question since it seems more like a statement, but I'll give you my thoughts.

An Atheist does not believe in a or any God.
A Theist does believes in at least one or even more than one God.

Most atheist (not all) believe there was no matter, then Bang there was matter.

Theist GENERALY believe there was no matter, then Bang god created matter.

Evolution of the universe and evolution of organisms are two very different "sciences"

Life is created with matter that is supplied by the mostly by the mother, (a little from dad too) and the food we eat.

The food we eat, or anything we ingest effects our "EPI-GENETICS"
thats the changes to the chemical surface of our DNA turning on or off different characteristic within the DNA
(puberty is an excellent example of this, yet its all natural. Glands secreat hormones that trigger epigenetic changes in our bodies)
Some changes can even last for generations. But God is not making us eat what we eat, therefore I don't understand how God could play an active role in genetic evolution.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3411/02.html

evolution of our galaxy is a long story but I think this video explains a new view on the birth of our universe and I cannot deny the fact that this new "scientific" approach leaves PLENTY of room for a God to live in
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4183875433858020781&q=Parallel+Universes&total=1159&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=5
hang in there with the video, lots of science terminology, some what boring, but quite eye opening esp near the second half

after watching it you COULD say, God is in another dimension and decided to create us and our universe/dimensions in which there was no matter until he "injected it" into the void within the dimensions

------- makes me want to claim myself as agnostic from now on (meaning I cannot deny the existance of a god, but not claiming any religion)

Math is my God.......
numbers, laws, chemistry, and physics made my world what it is..... (higher dimensions are a different story, but I don't believe I can travel into them, thusly I probably won't ever meet God)

Answer 4

Was there not life before I was born? Therefore there was pre-existing matter. Eternal or pre-existing (existing before what would be good to know) matter doesn't mean pre-existing life in a supernatural context. Just because we don't have the answer to everything doesn't mean that an imaginary god did it. It may be nice to have that mental cop out, but it's not logical or reasonable.

Peace=Piece

atheist

Answer 5

No, we can admit that we don't have all the answers yet. Everything we know is to the best of our ability at the moment, and based on evidence this is what we conclude or assume. We don't say "We don't understand something, hmm... must be God!".

pEAce.