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To: MyTwoCopperCoins
You may not think it that way, and may choose to believe in imaginary kingdoms, heavens full of materialistic pleasures for a soul bereft of physical form, talking snakes and an entire population arisen out of incest, but I would say that we should feel even more special, because of that lottery life has won.

I didn't say anything about any of that and don't believe it. But it's far more plausible explanation than your lottery theory. As is the theory that Santa Clause created us all just so he would have a billion or so chimneys to climb down one night per year. Of all the ridiculous explanations of human existence, from Zeus to Heaven's Gate, random occurrences resulting from the explosion of something that didn't exist is the most absurd. Especially when it's expressed with arrogant certitude from human minds that obviously can't come close to knowing even a tiny portion of the facts; minds have to struggle mightily to ignore the statistical absurdity of their conclusion; minds that have to ignore simple questions like "So time did the math, how's that work?".

50 posted on 07/02/2009 7:42:12 AM PDT by Minn (Here is a realistic picture of the prophet: ----> ([: {()
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To: Minn

Time doesn’t do the math by itself. You have trillions raised to millions worth of dynamic interactions of atoms and molecules, each of them taking fractions of nanoseconds to happen, and all of this, over a time-span spreading beyond 3+ billion years. It’s not time alone, so let’s get that part clear. The statistical absurdities begin to seep into the realms of possibility now, doesn’t it? On top of that, living things don’t pop up magically, inspite of what Stone Age literature might want to suggest. You have each stage reliant upon the millions of stages that preceded it, and the advancements add on.

Secondly, the real question is not the above. You could have come to the point by asking how the universe came into being, and what we are here for. That, I wouldn’t know. But if you tell me that a magical being in the sky did all this, then I wouldn’t be able to accept it. If you resign to the belief that this God-figure(singular / plural / who knows?) made everything, then I’d ask you who made this God. If you say God was / is eternal, then I’d ask you why did he/she/it/they choose this moment to make everything.

When I see heads blown off, sawn off, children raped and murdered, children born with grotesque deformities, dead in the womb, etc., I don’t see anyone ‘in charge’. If you do, it’s only because you want to see it that way, and you have no proof or evidence for supporting your stance.


52 posted on 07/02/2009 7:53:37 AM PDT by MyTwoCopperCoins (I don't have a license to kill; I have a learner's permit.)
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