RE: Best Theistic Arguments
July 1, 2018 at 6:30 am
(This post was last modified: July 1, 2018 at 6:37 am by surreptitious57.)
JairCrawford Wrote:The staggering odds of the Big Bang happening ( if odds can even be involved as there is much we do not even know about how it happened however I am trying to stray away from a God of the
Gaps argument so take this aside with grain of salt ) the staggering odds of the galaxies forming the way they did to our galaxy forming the way it did to our star to our planet to being able to sustain
life to then the spark that started life to then all the evolution of life that had to survive to lead to us. You do not necessarily have to fit God into the gaps to know how some of this stuff works but the
odds remain absolutely staggering. And some theists make the argument that a creator is more probable than not under these staggering odds
All probabilities exist between 0 and l and any that are random have an equal chance of occurring. And so claiming staggering odds
for the Universe occurring as it has is simply an argument from emotion. And emotion has absolutely nothing to do with probability
There is nothing special about life. It is merely one process in the chain of transition that can be traced right back to the Big Bang. We only think life is
special because we ourselves are life which is circular reasoning. Furthermore the Universe is not hard wired for life. Life is hard wired for the Universe
Biology is applied chemistry and chemistry is applied physics and so there is no need to invoke God Of The Gaps to explain cosmology and evolution
Also the Big Bang is not just something that has already happened for space is still expanding so it is a present event every much as it is a past one
A MIND IS LIKE A PARACHUTE : IT DOES NOT WORK UNLESS IT IS OPEN