(July 1, 2018 at 6:30 am)surreptitious57 Wrote: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 theThere 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
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
special because we ourselves are life which is circular reasoning.
That sounds a touch nihilistic, though. Is that the price for abandoning all circular reasoning? To lose all meaning in life? Life in and of itself is not special? I mean, I've even heard Richard Dawkins talk about how truly special life is and he is pretty militant against theism.