(December 23, 2015 at 2:48 pm)Mohammed - Muslim and Proud Wrote:(December 23, 2015 at 2:42 pm)Jehanne Wrote: The concept of God is self-contradictory ("if God is omniscient, does he/she/it have free will?"), but more importantly, the concept of God contradicts everything in our human experience; without exception, everything that we observe comes from that which is simpler. God is not simple, in the sense that God is more complex than Us, his creation. So, why believe in something for which there is no evidence, which is self-contradictory and which contradicts everything which we do observe?Well the universe is complex because we as humans cannot make a similar universe. Many things are not understood in the universe, not a lot has been found also. So how can you say that they aren't complex? To us as humans that have evolved, it is of course complex.
"Take your pick: God or universe. Something always existed" -- the Universe, because it is simpler!
The Universe came from that which is simple: Population III stars gave rise to Population II stars which gave rise to Population I stars, which gave rise to Us:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallicity
