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but after pursing the idea for awhile I came across panspermia and realized atheists have an out even if evolution on earth were shown to be statistically impossible.

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Not realy. That life has been shaped by evolution for the last billion years or so is beyond dispute. How life began, or how heredity/replication began to be a stickler, is the question that panspermia seeks to answer. Even if life was planted on earth from somewhere else it still would have have evolved Darwinian style somewhere along the line.