There are more stars than grains of sand on a beach. Next time you’re at a beach, pick up one single grain of sand and look at the beach while telling yourself that that grain of sand is the only one with life on it.
You’ll laugh.
Sorry, couldn't resist. :-P
Nice try. Slide the 40 billion year evolution fraud in the back door. Yes, God did create the planet with its myriad exquisitely precise systems, but he spoke them into existence, fully functional and fully inhabited, in just six twenty-four hour days.
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"The exquisite balance of Ammonia and Methane (without which life would be IMPOSSIBLE) in our atmosphere and the paradisical temperatures of around -220 °C couldn't be a coincidence." He explained to the assembly of his fellow creatures. Wiping his brow with one of his many tentacles, he continued: "Indeed, our planet is in the 'Goldilocks' zone for habitability."
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A close look at DNA will hint that a finger was on the scale.
I've believed a similar theory all my life, except for his purpose in our lives. God/he/she/them have NO purpose other than to watch their creation as it unfolds. It's a being that our human minds can't comprehend who threw the cosmic physics out simply to see what would happen. I've never believed in the "singularity" that appeared out of nowhere. Physicists can't explain where the "singularity" (basketball supermass) came from. They never will.
There was a book called, "Conversation With God". The first one made sense about a being wanting to share his/their existence and created the Universe. Unfortunately, his sequel books were gobbly-gook.
My bigger question is if there is consciousness after the body dies. What is it? And if it does go on in some form, when did this consciousness develop? At fertilization? At 3 months? At six months? While traveling through the vagina at birth? Is it when children become sentient around the age of 10 or so?
The problem with all my questions above is NOBODY knows. All religions like to think they have the answer. As an agnostic, I have two thoughts: 1. When you die you don't know you're even dead like you didn't know a sperm was going to hit an egg before you were created or you don't know you're in REM sleep. 2. After so much time in this roulette wheel of the Universe, you develop a mind that can transcend the body's death.
I believe it takes a lifetime of trial and error and wanting to transcend to reach that plane after bodily death. I don't believe everyone reaches it. IMHO.
That said, I adhere to Christian/Judea ethics because they are built on compassion, empathy, sympathy, and the better of human emotions. Simply put, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you". Yeah, I know it's Biblical. Still, it works if all practice same, with a little reasoning thrown in.
This is a logical fallacy, the idea that our planet is perfectly tuned to our existence in numerous ways so this proves a creator. But the problem is that if we came from nothing, the planet would still be perfectly tuned to our existence simply because we _could not exist_ anywhere BUT a place like this.
Also, this is another effort to use science to “prove” faith. Faith stands alone and does not need this sort of assistance.
While the probability of life as we know it is extremely low according to the available evidence, atheists can counter with something like the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. In other words, all possible universes exist, and we are naturally conscious in the one where life evolved.
“Earth’s cosmic habitat, history, and natural resources reflect the needs of its inhabitants.”
Hugh sounds a lot like Pangloss.
(Voltaire: “Observe: noses were made to support spectacles, hence we have spectacles. Legs, as anyone can plainly see, were made to be breeched, and so we have breeches.”)
Organisms adapt to their environment (so far as its possible), not the other way around.
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