(February 10, 2014 at 10:11 am)Sword of Christ Wrote:(February 10, 2014 at 9:35 am)Marvin Wrote: Why did the universe waste so much space with inhospitable to human zones?You need all the space and all the physically processes within it to generate planets that are suitable for life to evolve. So nothing is just a waste everything is interconnected as one whole. Life can only exist within a narrow band due to it's structural and physical complexity that requires certain exact physical conditions to maintain.
Yes you do, for life to arise naturally. You need a very large and very old universe where improbable things happen all the time, by the very nature of it's size and age. These things are what we would expect to see from a universe where life has arisen naturally. God only needed one planet, he didn't need anything else. Every additional star, every additional planet, is a piece of evidence against the Abrahamic god.
philhellenes Wrote:But for argument's sake let's say god, for his own mysterious reasons, wants it all to run via nuclear fusion and stellar nucleosynthesis in the Sun; and photosynthesis on Earth. He still only need one star and one planet, anything beyond that would be window dressing. In such an empty universe it would indeed seem the Earth was a special place, and the focus of creation; adding tremendous weight to the Earth centered religious beliefs But by that same token, if there were two suns that would bring the Earth centered religions into doubt. That would be doubly true if there were three suns; and for each addition sun after that the doubts grow.
If there were only one world it might be unreasonable to say that life exists on that one world by chance alone. For atheistic ideas to have any support, for it to be true that life arose by pure coincidence, conditions, and elements; there must be more than one sun. More than one roll of the dice. A universe with two suns helps the atheistic argument, but not by much. Three suns would only offer a slight improvement over that. The current estimates (linked to the research in the sidebar) suggest that there are seventy sextillion stars (70,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) in the observable universe alone; and very good reasons to believe that the actual universe is far, far... far, far, far larger. Seventy sextillion? Each one of these countless chances at life is an argument in favor of atheism; at least in it's opposition to the Earth centered religions of Christianity and Islam.