(September 17, 2012 at 7:50 pm)Reasonable_Jeff Wrote: I've heard atheists say,
“I believe that the universe was created out of nothing by chance.”
But chance can’t create anything. It’s a word that we use to describe or talk about probabilities. If I flip a coin the chances of it landing heads up if flipped (assuming it doesn’t land on its side) is 50%. But if it does land heads up, chance didn't "cause" it to flip, I did. "Chance" doesn't stand in casual relation to things.
“Chance” as the cause of the universe seems silly.
What do you guys think?
Some atheists may hypothesise that the cause of the universe was chance, fewer still might say that it originated from "nothing". Really we don't know. It's unfortunate that to most religious I don't know = God did it.
I lost my keys this morning, after much deliberation I managed to find them in my cupboard. I don't know how that got there. Maybe it was the cat? Maybe they fell out of my pocket when I was getting changed after work? I just don't know... that doesn't mean "God did it".
