RE: Why are you an Atheist?
December 21, 2019 at 11:10 pm
(This post was last modified: December 21, 2019 at 11:13 pm by Simon Moon.)
(December 21, 2019 at 3:19 pm)maxolla Wrote: As for miracles...Do you have kids? Have you seen a live birth? Procreation is a fact miracle and can be seen here and now. Of course some say that’s not a miracle at all. I say the world around me is a miracle, and to many others it's just a fact pattern based in some theory. A theory that accounts for our planet being the exact distance from the sun to support life and many many other statistical phenomena as just that.
The part I bolded above is the kind of thing that points out just how flawed your thinking is.
First of all, the earth orbits between 147 million KM at its closest, and 152 million KM at its furthest away from the sun. That's 3.5 million miles difference. So much for the earth needing to be an exact distance from the sun. That's a difference of about 10%. So, obviously are distance away from the sun is not so much of a razors edge of survival as you mistakenly believe.
But your biggest flaw in thinking, is thinking that the earth was designed for us, and not that we exist on the earth because it is capable of supporting life.
This brings to mind author Douglas Adams's parable about the sentient puddle of water:
"This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in — an interesting hole I find myself in — fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!"
But as I am sure you can plainly see, the puddle fits into the hole, not that the hole was designed for the puddle. We exist on earth because we fit the conditions on earth, not that the earth was designed for us.
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.