According to atheists, “the universe is as it is, mysteriously, and it just happens to permit life,” explains Paul Davies.
“Had it been different,” say atheists, “we would not be here to argue about it.
The universe may or may not have a deep underlying unity, but there is no design, purpose, or point to it all—at least none that would make sense to us.
” “The advantage of this position,” notes Davies, “is that it is easy to hold—easy to the point of being a cop-out,” that is, a convenient way to avoid facing the issue.
In his book Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, molecular biologist Michael Denton concluded that the theory of evolution “is more like a principle of medieval astrology than a serious . . . scientific theory.”
He also referred to Darwinian evolution as one of the greatest myths of our time.
To be sure, the appeal to luck as the first cause does smack of myth. Imagine this: An archaeologist sees a rough stone that is more or less square. He may attribute that shape to chance, which would be reasonable.
But later he finds a stone that is perfectly formed in the shape of a human bust, down to the finest details.
Does he attribute this item to chance?
No. His logical mind says, ‘Someone made this.’ Using similar reasoning, the Bible states: “Every house is constructed by someone, but he that constructed all things is God.” (Hebrews 3:4)
Do you agree with that statement?
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Many claim there is no creator but they are happy to believe that everything came from an explosion of nothing becoming everything & all life is an accident.
A creator sounds far more believable to me.
A secular state. A theocracy can be terrible, there would be fighting over which faith is in energy. An atheist state would ban freedom of religion, something i don't believe (an i'm an agnostic atheist). A Secular state can be great, like we have now now. The one drawback is the specific corporations pondering they will have to get targeted medication.
No. I find it a little arrogant of people to assume that humans even possess the ability to understand the universe, then when they don't, they use their all-to-limited minds to construct an explanation. I know the idea of randomness and chance make people uncomfortable, but science has found in many situations that chance and randomness are indeed the fundamental principles at work. Metaphor are helpful yes, but in this case the metaphor is even less complete than the idea it is trying to represent.
Why must you and every other person of some faith give the world and universe an arbitrary purpose and meaning? Is it because you cannot fathom the thought that it is there just as it is, simply because it's there? That there is no rhyme or reason for us to exist, that the earth and universe just so happened to be able to permit it?
The logic of 'someone made this' also has to apply to a god or gods. If something made all of this, what made the god or gods that made all of this? And so on and so forth ad infinitum.
The problem with all that you have stated is that you are heaping the entire probabitlity of life arising naturally, onto this one particular spot in the universe. There are billions and billions of potential places in the universe for life to have arisen naturally.
It's kind of like a roullette wheel. The chance of the marble landing in a particular slot is 1 in 39, or 2.6%. The chance that the marble will land *somewhere* in the 39 slots is 100%.
In the universe, the chance that life will arise naturally at any one particular spot is so miniscule as to not be calculable. That chance that life will arise naturally *somewhere* among the billions and billions of places in the universe is 100%.
It just so happens that Earth is one of those places.
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Now, Smiling Don, you sound like an intelligent person - how you can believe that Darwin's theories are wrong and God created the world in six days and fashioned me from Adam's Rib? Can't you see how daft that sounds?
How wld you like to be made from someone's rib. All your guff above doesn't mean a thing. No proof, no nothing. So no I do not agree with such nonsense.
Mo
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Don! Don...
Just look at our hands--now our fingers! Our hand has muscles and our fingers none! If humans had muscles in our fingers they would be fingers of a HULK! We could not use them, and that is a scientific fact!
It did not surprising me , then, that Harold Morowitz, a Yale University physicist, has calculated that the chances of getting the simplest living bacterium by random changes is 1 in 1 followed by 100,000,000,000 zeros. “This number is so large,” Shapiro said, “that to write it in conventional form we would require several hundred thousand blank books.” He charges that scientists committed to the chemical evolution of life ignore the increasing evidence and “have chosen to hold it as a truth beyond question, thereby enshrining it as mythology.
You know my answer; I agree 100% with all my heart that " ...he that constructed all things is God."
Interesting that you quote Paul Davies and Michael Denton both scientists that do not believe in the biblical account of creation, to support your implication of the biblical account of creation.
And no, I don't agree with the statement that God constructed all things.
In the good old days people thought it rained because of God. God was angry or God was happy. They didn't know about germs or sanitation, either, they thought you got sick or died because God was angry. In the good old days preachers said the railroad, the automobile, radio, television, movies, music, rock 'n roll, skateboarding and so so so many more things were sinful. Why do you believe such idiots? All they want is your money. And then like Reverend Jimmy Swaggart they spend your love offerings on skanky prostitutes, or like Reverend Jimmy Baker they spend your love offerings on mansions, or that Reverend from Colorado they spend your love offerings on male prostitutes AND crystal meth. When are you ever going to figure it out and stop letting these scumbags rip you off???
I can't understand this gobbledygook, is there a question in there somewhere?
Are you trying to say that when a human being creates anything, it was really GOD that made it? Its laughable.
Religious types who try to attack evolution like it was somehow competing with the bible for dominance are simply insane. Us atheists simply don't care what you think, just don't try to push your faith on us. You believe your fairy tales and we'll believe in evolution and we'll all be happier for it.