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Originally Posted by raeanna74
I'm curious about this.
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I'll try to address it as best I can
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Originally Posted by raeanna74
I never imagined that an atheist would believe in any other source of the universe other than evolution.
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Evolution doesn't explain the universe. It can't. It isn't meant to. You are thinking of Cosmology, specifically, 'Big Bang' Cosmology. Evolutionary researchers never, ever do any work regarding the origin of the universe or even the origin of life. It is not in their realm of reality.
The second point is that a-theism merely refers to the benign lack of belief in god(s). There is one qualification for atheism: if you possess a positive belief in god(s) you cannot join the club.
Many (not most) atheists believe in all sorts of things: ghosts, bigfoot, UFOs, psychic powers. Some even believe in a sort of afterlife. As long as they do not believe in god(s) they get to call themselves atheists.
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Originally Posted by raeanna74
What other possibilities are there? I just don't know.
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When I posted that comment that you responded to, I was specifically thinking of a boss I used to have that said "No god; no creation; no evolution. We were seeded by extraterrestrials."
He believed there is no god, and evolution is a fraud. He thought that green men planted life here millions of years ago.