Drew_2013 Wrote:A laptop which is simplicity in itself compared to the universe, requires an extra step as opposed to mindless natural forces accidentally causing a laptop to exist.
This is fallacy because it has been observed that the universe keeps creating itself - like stars, planets, black holes, etc. While laptops constantly need to be developed and maintained by humans.
Drew_2013 Wrote:Theism is an explanation for why a universe came into existence and caused intelligent life to exist.
It's not an explanation because saying for something that "god did it" is not to explain it. Just like people used to say for thunders, earthquakes and winds that god did them.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
