Positive Atheism

[Eilonnwy]

To use a metaphor, if you were investigating a crime, and had a CCTV tape that was 48 hours in duration, nobody would expect you to watch the entire 48 hours to see the crime develop. Instead, you would watch sections (every 10 minutes) until you could determine what lead up to the crime taking place.

To take the analogy even further, when you come to the crime scene of a murder, you investigate with good science to come to a conclusion of who committed the crime. We convict people of murder when there are even no witnesses because science has made the case beyond a reasonable doubt.

I'm going to assume here that we all mostly accept the court system and conviction beyond a reasonable doubt. Why would you be willing trust one aspect of science that can, essentially, "look into the past" and not another, especially when the science on the other is better?

When we take pictures of the sky and use long exposure techniques to view other galaxies, they are essentially looking into the past. The light takes so long to reach us, that viewing it is like a time machine. We are viewing other galaxies as they were billions of years ago. We can actually see the past. . And as Adrian stated, we can see solar systems and galaxies all in different stages in their formation.

It's absolutely astounding and beautiful. It fills me with awe, and that awe is something no ancient book full of such vulgar atrocities could ever match.