RE: Who throws the dice for you?
April 16, 2014 at 9:27 pm
(This post was last modified: April 16, 2014 at 9:40 pm by Heywood.)
(April 16, 2014 at 3:09 pm)Rampant.A.I. Wrote: Doesn't anyone get tired of "we don't know: therefore God" being presented as a valid argument?
"If God didn't exist, there could be no order."
"Everything is too complex for there to be no God."
"Randomness? That must be God too!"
I get tired of you claiming this a God of the Gaps argument when it is not. We do know these observations cannot be explained by local physical phenomena. There is no gap in scientific understanding that is being filled by God.
Suppose that ancient Greeks had discovered that lightening could not be the result of local physical causes. Such a finding would be evidence supporting the Zeus hypothesis. It wouldn't be proof of the existence of Zeus, but it is an observation that would be expected to be made if Zeus did indeed exist.
Certain known artifacts of our reality....not gaps in our understanding....are suggestive of the existence of God. You're just going to have to learn to live with that.