[Quix]

Some postulate some sort of--what's it called--pans spermia?

a la ET.

That is, that ET seeded creation to get it going good. Of course, that doesn't answer where ET came from.

But atheists don't have a good answer for where the original atoms came from either. . . . and though she might have thought otherwise, it wasn't from M. M. O'Hair's farts either.

[jlogajan]

atheists don't have a good answer for where the original atoms came from either

Here's the difference. Theists can't answer where god came from. Now the difference between atoms and god is that we know atoms exist. So theists are merely adding an unseen layer -- multiplying entities, as Occham would say.

[Junior]

But atheists don't have a good answer for where the original atoms came from either...

I'm not an atheist, but the origin of atoms does not matter upon that which one believes -- atoms coalesced out of the miasma of subatomic particles which themsleves condensed from the high-energy state which existed right after the big bang.

[Dimensio]

But atheists don't have a good answer for where the original atoms came from either

I'm into computer science. Speculation on the origins of matter is not within my field of study.

. . . . and though she might have thought otherwise, it wasn't from M. M. O'Hair's farts either.

Why would I care about her?

[laredo44]

But atheists don't have a good answer for where the original atoms came from either

And you do?

[Doctor Stochastic]

Aspiring to write for ER?