RE: The vast complexity of living things proves that God exists (proof 1)
October 2, 2013 at 5:36 pm
(October 2, 2013 at 5:08 pm)Crossless1 Wrote: Whatever the answer turns out to be, you can bet your ass it wasn't Yahweh playing mad scientist before turning his attention to the really important things like prohibiting people from eating shellfish or wearing blended fabrics.
This is the whole point that RPG keeps missing: even if the Final Answer To Everything does in fact turn out to be not just a god but his god, he's still not remotely justified at this time to start from that conclusion. None of the evidence - literally 100% none of it - has so far even suggested there's anything with a face behind the laws of the Universe.
Investigating whether some flavour of divine power was involved or even necessary in creating and maintaining the cosmos would actually be a legitimate research project. However, filing the question of how you would test for it in the "not my problem" drawer for a moment, when the results come in and the answer is no gods to be found, it's time to abandon the initial hypothesis. Sadly, creationists are as keen to do that as they are to do the work.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
