dg wrote:
#63

I don't think you made any point that I didn't already make, did you? Clearly if Y is like X, it follows that X is like Y.
Indeed. This goes to show that, in purely philosophical terms, atheistic and theistic perspectives are entirely equivalent.
Paradoxally enough, they invite the same questions.

The ameoba example is interesting, but in my view, not entirely prudent. We cannot establish that the ameoba has sufficient awareness and intelligence to even ponder the existence of a deity, nor can we factually establish that it is entirely unaware of our presence, though if it is indeed unaware of our existence, than this may only suggest an absence of conscious thought (which is required to make any observation of the environment at work). 

But if I may bring forward the more pertinent argument again:
If time is infinite (as relates to this Universe) then an infine amount of time lies in the past, logically speaking.
How did we reach this present then? How did time get here if it means an infinite past?
This becomes even more problematic to answer is we consider infine past beyond this given Universe.