You know what would be a problem for atheists? If they discovered that our Universe had a definite start date.
You know what would be an even bigger problem? If they discovered that if you changed the initial settings of the Universe by extremely small amounts, life could never have existed. If that were true, we would have to assume a cosmic plan or assume an enormous number of Universes where one randomly had the perfect combination for life. Using Occam’s razor, the first would be the best explanation.
You know what would be a still larger problem? If observation actually affected behavior of particles, which would suggest that conscious beings were part of the cosmic plan. If consciousness were just a random accident, why would it influence how particles behaved?
You know what would be an even bigger problem? If the laws of the Universe were really simple, such as the force of gravity and the electomagnetic force decreasing by exactly the square of the distance. If our Universe were just one of an infinite number of randomly created Universes, we might expect the decline would be the distance to the 2.1654th power or something. After all, if you pick a bunch of random numbers, you wouldn’t expect to find many whole numbers or even rational numbers.
Let’s hope, for the atheist’s sake, that they never discover these things. Oh wait, they have.
That point about consciousness and quantum mechanics is really outstanding. Why would particles whose existence predated human consciousness be effected by it?
Perfect!