RE: Carl Sagan: A Universe Not Made For Us
April 25, 2017 at 5:26 pm
(This post was last modified: April 25, 2017 at 5:27 pm by Simon Moon.)
When you put all the evidence together, without as many presuppositions as possible, it is so obvious that we exist due to the conditions of the universe being such as to be able to produce and sustain life. Not because the universe was designed to produce us.
Neo-Scholastic's vision of the universe being created for us, is not romantic at all. It is the ultimate in conceit and arrogance.
Conservatively, there are at least 100 billion galaxies, each with at least 100 billion stars, each star with planets, a good percentage of those are rocky and in the habitable zone. And all of that extant almost 13.7 billion years before there was even life on Earth, and another 4.4 billion years for humans to appear. And that is his god's "design"?
Sometimes it just hits me how truly silly theistic beliefs really are.
This video pretty much nails it,
Neo-Scholastic's vision of the universe being created for us, is not romantic at all. It is the ultimate in conceit and arrogance.
Conservatively, there are at least 100 billion galaxies, each with at least 100 billion stars, each star with planets, a good percentage of those are rocky and in the habitable zone. And all of that extant almost 13.7 billion years before there was even life on Earth, and another 4.4 billion years for humans to appear. And that is his god's "design"?
Sometimes it just hits me how truly silly theistic beliefs really are.
This video pretty much nails it,
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.