(August 7, 2016 at 10:36 am)PETE_ROSE Wrote: Rob, let's set aside the monotheistic Christian God of the bible. As I wholeheartedly agree that all "religions" make absurd claims.
Many here ask for evidence or a claim.
I will claim that a god, that is personable, intelligent, and powerful by nature, is the best rational explanation for the existence of the observable universe.
The way the 4 fundamental laws of physics interact to sustain our planets, stars and the observable universe. That our observable universe appears to have a beginning and is not eternal. That life, DNA, the human genome, the mind, consciousness, the ability to reason and perform scientific evaluation, nature, and how as we humans differ from animals, I would claim that these are all very complex and intricate mechanisms that point to a designer or creator.
From a logical perspective it seems to me that a creator or by design is a more rational and acceptable hypothesis than the perspective that the universe just happened or made itself from a foamy sea of quarks vibration and gravity, that life just happened from a collection of amino acids, and that evolution just happened to produce DNA, our unique human consciousness, Beethoven, and the Manchester United FC.
God is even more complex with all its supposed omnipotence, omniscience, omnipresence, timelessness, spacelessness, etc. Why not also question how God could have just happened?
The existence of this observable universe with all its wonders and complexities is sufficiently explicable by the postulation of a multiverse, whereby each universe is preconditioned with random numbers, some of which inevitably leading to wonders such as what we have in this particular universe.
Also, you seem to be looking at life as some magical thingy, as if it was just switched on out of nowhere, rather than looking at life as a gradual process that became more and more clear over a long period of time as certain activities increased.
