alpha male Wrote:(November 11, 2017 at 2:28 pm)emjay Wrote: Chemicals react, that's one thing they do, they also bond and form more complex structures (molecules etc), so it's not that much of a leap to think that given those two things, with enough time and the right conditions, self-supporting structures could be formed... in other words, little steps, which eventually amount to something much bigger. I'm no expert on all that but that's enough for me; it's perfectly plausible to me based on how systems evolve in other respects. It's certainly more plausible to me than the earth only being six thousand years old despite all the geological evidence that suggest that can't be the case. But if I'm wrong, so what? ...if it's proven to be impossible, then I'll just wait for the next theory to be put forward, which will again likely be more plausible than a six thousand year old earth and a magical being creating life, despite all the evidence of evolution. And more to the point, the truth, or not, of that, has no bearing on the existence of God or which specific God out of the many that are posited, it would be if there was; so there's no way I could use that theory being falsified to promote a belief in God, even if I wanted to, because one does not speak to the other.
Special pleading. You find inanimate matter coming to life plausible, so that's not delusion. You find a creator god less plausible, so that's delusion.
If you say so. Ultimately it's entirely your prerogative if you want to consider me deluded for looking to the natural world first, rather than magic, for explanations. Or likewise for looking at psychology first, rather than "spirituality". But if so, you'll have to take it up with science. Occam's Razor. But whether you see me as deluded or not doesn't make any difference to what I've said; it makes me no more likely to see arguments steeped in confirmation bias as credible, and no more likely to accept arguments that rely on that in order to find God. So regardless of how credible you find me, it makes the likes of MK, little rik, and drich no more credible to me.
