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FTFYWhat about the "I don't know why or howbut matter definitely poofed out of thin air and no that isn't as crazy as thinking a supernatural force created it because I just say "Big Bang" and hope no one will ask where the extremely dense acorn came from" argument?
There's no need to complicate the "I don't know" statement, unless one's intent is to construct a strawman or blur the other's position. Atheism doesn't imply a belief in any other origin theory, myth, or legend, much less the "Big Bang" specifically.
That's not quite right - "I don't and can't know" is the agnostic response. Strictly speaking, agnostics hold that the truth is not just unknown, but unknowable.Also, "I don't know" is an agnostic response, not an atheist.
One can be an atheist, admit ignorance, and still believe that it may be possible to know the truth of our origin at some some point in humanity's future.
Atheism is typically no more complex than "I see no reason to believe in any gods, so I don't" and that is not incompatible with "I don't know where any of this stuff came from, and perhaps no one ever will" ... so atheists can be agnostics.