I think that religion wont go away since it seems to be a big part of what humanity is.
That doesn't remove the fact that if this is the only universe it is so much more likely that there would be no life than life.
When did size equal value? You seem to be saying that the universe would only be worth it if there was a higher percent of life compared to non-life. Why does size matter, would you rather be a star than a person? The the universe could have been made smaller and younger compared to us why would that be better; isn't the universe much more amazing when it is how it is?
Doesn't he argue that since infinite regress is impossible that there must have been one first cause to everything. So I don't remember whether what you have said about his understanding of the big bang is true or not, but reguardless of that the infinite regress arguement works anyway.
Does he claim that God is timeless and spaceless, not infinite? Even if he doesn't then take it as an improvement to say God is timeless not everlasting (infinite). In my view God hasn't been around a long time, but is outside of time.
(December 25, 2009 at 11:32 pm)theVOID Wrote: There will continue to be fallacious arguments for the existence of God, such as the Argument from fine-tuning, the idea that the universe was tuned for life - a ridiculous proposition considering that the major spatial component of the universe are Voids - massive empty regions of space... Yeah because incomprehensibly vast regions of emptiness are exactly what life needs...
That doesn't remove the fact that if this is the only universe it is so much more likely that there would be no life than life.
Quote:The religious are unanimously lacking a sense of context. The idea that the universe was made for life is beyond insane, for what scenario would require 400 billion stars per galaxy and hundreds of billions of galaxies to sustain life on a minuscule portion of the universe orbiting around a particularly average star in a comparatively tiny galaxy?
When did size equal value? You seem to be saying that the universe would only be worth it if there was a higher percent of life compared to non-life. Why does size matter, would you rather be a star than a person? The the universe could have been made smaller and younger compared to us why would that be better; isn't the universe much more amazing when it is how it is?
Quote:Their other key fault is their vast misrepresentation of the Big Bang, even by the most renowned Christian apologists like William Lane Craig - he continually makes the assertion that the Big Bang theory states that something came from nothing - which he knows full well is not a position held by a single cosmologist on earth, in fact many would argue that 'nothing' is logically impossible. He also continually argues that it is impossible for infinite regress to have a place in reality, because it relies on the concept of infinity which he asserts as a certainty does not exist in reality, yet he then declares that since God is 'out of time' that he is infinite... It's a completely fallacious argument based special pleading and downright insanity - The singularity in every single big-bang cosmology is 'out of time' by definition, seeing as it gave rise to time as a dimension.
Doesn't he argue that since infinite regress is impossible that there must have been one first cause to everything. So I don't remember whether what you have said about his understanding of the big bang is true or not, but reguardless of that the infinite regress arguement works anyway.
Does he claim that God is timeless and spaceless, not infinite? Even if he doesn't then take it as an improvement to say God is timeless not everlasting (infinite). In my view God hasn't been around a long time, but is outside of time.
Mark Taylor: "Religious conflict will be less a matter of struggles between belief and unbelief than of clashes between believers who make room for doubt and those who do not."
Einstein: “The most unintelligible thing about nature is that it is intelligible”
Einstein: “The most unintelligible thing about nature is that it is intelligible”
