(December 27, 2015 at 8:24 am)Brian37 Wrote:(December 22, 2015 at 2:28 am)snowtracks Wrote: Oh boy, other atheists are now cringing with the big toes curling inward with that statement.
What exactly is cringe worthy about saying atoms are plentiful in the universe? I'd say odds are pretty good in a universe full of 100s of billions of galaxies that life exists elsewhere and I am sure it won't be long that we will at a minimum prove that microbial life exists elsewhere in our solar system or at least that it can survive on it's own. Mind you I don't mean life as in conspiracy crap like Area 51, but simply it is possible for life to adapt on different planets in the universe.
And also what is cringe worthy about saying the god of the gaps is not an argument? It isn't. Allah nor Yahweh nor Vishnu nor Thor explain anything other than that humans have vivid imaginations.
Everything is made up of atoms, life or not. The existence of atoms isn't conducive to the existence of life.
That being said, the idea you intended to portray is accurate as far as I'm concerned. The likelihood that life exists at least once somewhere else in the universe is almost a certainty.
