RE: I will prove to you that God exists
April 11, 2025 at 7:11 am
(This post was last modified: April 11, 2025 at 7:12 am by Alan V.)
(April 11, 2025 at 6:00 am)Sheldon Wrote: As you say, it's hard not to feel sorry when apologists devote so much effort to defending irrational arguments. Sadly, if you start with a belief that you're not prepared to abandon, this is bound to happen. I mean if my position ever required I contradict known fact, or a dictionary definition to defend it, I'd have to discard that belief. There is no belief I wouldn't abandon if the objective evidence made it untenable.
Evolutionary psychology tells us that people defend their ideas for social reasons, but it still comes down to a sunk-cost fallacy if those ideas don't hold up to critical scrutiny.
However, I do appreciate the argument that scientists need to explain the biofriendly characteristics of our universe if there is no multiverse. I give Drew that much credit.
The argument just doesn't have that much to do with atheists per se. We have abandoned the God-concept for a number of other reasons, and God is an uneconomical hypothesis to explain either the big bang or the specific characteristics of the universe which actually resulted from it.