My question still stands: how is life its own explanation?
What is an explanation, beyond something that leads us to greater clarity in the face of a mystery? If humans did not have curiosity, we could not perceive the "big picture" as something which needs of an explanation beyond that offered by the senses.
However to believe that advent of life (or the universe or everything for that matter) is due to the laws of physics and nature is just as much a belief as believing that a consciousness (or consciousnesses) was involved.
Sure. But the question is whether disbelief in any hypothesis is itself a belief.
Many of your arguments seem to be tangled in the perception of Atheism as a disbelief in the Judeo-Christian concept of God. Atheism is much more than that.
There are not inexhausibly many possible supernatural beings. In fact, there is a remarkably small set of "possible supernatural beings" in which humans are inclined to place any sort of credence. That is why i feel comfortable taking all possible supernatural beings as previously posited. There are no new supernatural beings that can be proposed which are not variations on something people conceived of many generations ago.
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What is an explanation, beyond something that leads us to greater clarity in the face of a mystery? If humans did not have curiosity, we could not perceive the "big picture" as something which needs of an explanation beyond that offered by the senses.
However to believe that advent of life (or the universe or everything for that matter) is due to the laws of physics and nature is just as much a belief as believing that a consciousness (or consciousnesses) was involved.
Sure. But the question is whether disbelief in any hypothesis is itself a belief.
Many of your arguments seem to be tangled in the perception of Atheism as a disbelief in the Judeo-Christian concept of God. Atheism is much more than that.
There are not inexhausibly many possible supernatural beings. In fact, there is a remarkably small set of "possible supernatural beings" in which humans are inclined to place any sort of credence. That is why i feel comfortable taking all possible supernatural beings as previously posited. There are no new supernatural beings that can be proposed which are not variations on something people conceived of many generations ago.