RE: Attention Theists! Present your best argument for the existence of God!
February 10, 2011 at 1:43 pm
(February 10, 2011 at 10:15 am)Watson Wrote: ... all the conditions, the infintesimally small factors, were in place from the very beginning moment leading up to this one for a planet such as ours to spawn life. And then for that life to become us...the odds are literally beyond impossible. So then it becomes a question of, 'to what end?' And so going beyond that, it becomes a question of whether or not the 'end' to which the universe leads is ingrained within it from the very beginning...as in, all moments leading up to the universe's 'end' were there from the 'beginning.'The odds of life developing as it exists is astronomical but the odds that some sort of life would develop over trillions of years in such a vast space are nearly 1 to 1. Your argument stems from the idea that humans are special and their design was guided by the hand of God. Using the odds of our existence as proof of God assumes that if the universe were to reset itself everything would evolve exactly the way it is now. The fact is that once life started, something had to evolve.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
