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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's interesting to me how atheists can scoff at the Christian belief in miracles, but maintain that the[b] entire physical world popped into existence from nothingness.[/b] Christians believe a God who made the world can intervene to perform a miracle. Indeed, we see the entire creation as a miracle. Atheists, on the other hand, marvel at the natural world and still maintain that it came into existence contrary to all the natural processes they worship, i.e. something from nothing, reversal of entropy, etc. The things that had to have happened for the universe to begin without a creator can never be observed in nature. [/quote]

I am an atheist who knows other atheists and I've never heard an atheist say that the world popped into existence from nothing.  I've heard atheists say they don't know how the world came into existence --  that's what I say -- and that scientists are trying to find out.

To me it seems weird that Christians believe that God made the world and then, at some much later date,  God sent his son for the express purpose of dying for all the people on earth from that time forward could go to heaven, if they believed in him.  They believe this even knowing that many people living on earth since the savior supposedly came 2000 years ago never even heard of Jesus and thus have no chance to go to the heaven promised by their god. [/quote]
But if you don't believe in a creator, then all the natural world had to just come into existence by itself. There's no way around it. Most atheists I've heard or read scoff at people who question the Big Bang theory because that's science. But the Big Bang theory posits that everything just ... popped into existence.

The rest of your post suggests that it's not that you don't believe in God, you just don't approve of how He does things. There are ways to understand Christian belief if you give it an honest attempt to understand. The Bible says a lot of things that you're probably not aware of that answer these questions, including that those who truly seek after God will find Jesus.[/quote]

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