(September 4, 2022 at 2:45 am)snowtracks Wrote:(September 3, 2022 at 6:52 pm)smithd Wrote: I'm a Christian looking to have a friendly conversation about the existence of God. I'd like to start with one of the Teleology arguments—that God exists based on how fine-tuned the universe is for life. For instance, physical constants, like the gravitational constant and constants of the strong nuclear force, must be within a narrow range to allow for things like atom formation, hydrogen bonding, galaxy formation, etc. This looks like design. The alternative is chance, which doesn't seem adequate. In other words, naturalism cannot account for the fine-tuning of the universe, while design can easily account for it. This is not a trivial problem, or one that can be ridiculed away, since many respected scientists have pointed out how remarkably (and inexplicably) fine-tuned the universe appears. Thanks for your polite responses.Everyone believes in God's existence so it's futile to cozy up and tried to convince them of something they all ready know. What happened to them is this*
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*Romans 1:21 Because, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
Replace the phrase ‘God’s existence’ with something else to see how monumentally stupid that statement is.
‘Everyone believes in pixies…’
‘Everyone believes in Bigfoot…’
‘Everyone believes in alien abductions…’
‘Everyone believes in astrology…’
And so on.
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax