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There's also the fact that the universe might be infinite in size.
Let's take take the size of the observable universe. According to holographic theory (not 100% accepted) the maximum amount of information in an area of space is proportional to its surface area, with 1 bit per plank area.
Assuming randomly distributed universes, the median expected distance to the nearest exact copy of our observable universe is 10^10^122 meters away. (Source: Brian Greene). There are infinite yous, not just temporally but spatially as well. Furthermore, if this is true, any version of you that can exist does exist.
Honestly, I find most atheists pretty basic and incurious (just like most religious people). Science is amazing but it hasn't answered a lot of the big questions. It might never be able to. For example, do mathematics exist independently of human thought? Or, more obviously, how can we explain the existence of the universe without causality? Why is there something and not nothing?
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