(September 2, 2017 at 5:32 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: God is not an answer to the question where did the universe come from.
It poses just as many questions and adds a few extra ones.
So with occams razor we can delete god from the list of possible explanations for the universe.
Yep.
Explaining a mystery with an even bigger mystery, explains nothing.
'God did it' has no explanatory power. It has plenty explanatory scope, but when you can use a panacea to explain everything, you end up explaining nothing.
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.
