Re: why I\'m an atheist...
It is ridiculous to say that "because the universe has a beginning, someONE must have created it." It is more ridiculous to say that there was someone hanging around in the (non-)universe to do the creating than it is to say that the universe just appeared out of nothing. In fact, we know that elemental particles appear and disappear in vacuums all the time. Usually they exist for only picoseconds, but occasionally they last longer.
Given an infinite number of potential universes, on some of them enough matter spontaneously appeared and remained to create a universe supportive of life. What about all those others? Well, there isn't anybody on those others wondering why they never existed.
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