RE: Q about arguments for God's existence.
July 22, 2014 at 10:33 pm
(This post was last modified: July 22, 2014 at 10:34 pm by Simon Moon.)
(July 22, 2014 at 9:53 pm)alexwenzel Wrote: If I was to show you the odds of the entire human body it looks even scarier. Let alone the entire universe. "The miracle of evolution" hahahaha
The entire attempt to calculate the odds after the results are known, is flawed. The main flaw is that creationists think that life, or a life sustaining universe are some kind of goals.
Here's an example that may explain the problem with this way of thinking.
When one is dealt a random bridge hand of thirteen cards, the probability of being dealt that particular hand is one in 635,013,559,600 (pretty high odds, right?). Still, it would be absurd for someone to be dealt a hand, examine it carefully, calculate that the probability of getting it is less than one in 600 billion, and then conclude that he must not have been dealt that very hand because it is so very improbable.
Now, if someone is dealt a bridge hand of all spades all in sequence (a perfect hand), the odds are no greater than a hand of 13 random cards.
We only imbue that hand with special meaning because of the rules of the game.
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.