RE: Why your exsistence is more worthless than you previousy thought it was.
February 10, 2014 at 7:02 am
(February 8, 2014 at 6:47 pm)Sword of Christ Wrote: The universe would be exactly the same either way though there's clearly a lot of fine tuning and complexity of structure and everything balanced on a knife edge to allow complex organic forms to generate themselves on suitable balls of rock. All this if you're going to think logically about it suggests a purpose made creation,
On the contrary. A universe that is carefully tuned yet capable of only producing life sparingly and in circumstances that are nowhere near ideal does not indicate a creator with a purpose, unless that purpose is to amuse himself at the expense of his creation. It could indicate a bumbling creator who learned much from his experiment and is currently off working on Universe 2.0 in the hopes of creating that ideal universe before he runs out of investor dollars.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
