The answer is: Don't have a fucking clue.
However, that doesn't lend anymore credence to magic being a more viable explanation. Maybe evolution is not the way intelligent life came about on this planet, but it's a hell of a lot more believable than magic! Show me a more convincing explanation than evolution, and I'd happily revise my belief, I'm certainly not married to it, and it's not something that defines me. I try to be humble about things I cannot be certain about, and there are many things of which I am not. "Faith" is what is used to cease inquiry. It's deciding there's an answer without qualifying it first. People who pretend to know there is a God have already decided it's true, and are not interested in scrutinizing the validity of their conclusion. It defines them, and the way they view the world, and it's a belief that undermines the value placed on the experience of life that we all happen to share, belief in God or not. It's a conviction of absolute certainty, and it's 100% incoherent of plausibility or intelligible purpose. Could I prove to a stranger that there is no planet between Earth and Mars if they thought there was one? No. But my being unable to do so doesn't make their belief anymore justified. Nor is my being unable to know exactly how a magician appears to be pulling a rabbit from a hat make it anymore unlikely to be a trick. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Natural selection over the course of millions of years is STILL an attempt at a natural explanation. Supernatural magicians add nothing to our understanding of complexity. It's just a pacifier and a distraction.
However, that doesn't lend anymore credence to magic being a more viable explanation. Maybe evolution is not the way intelligent life came about on this planet, but it's a hell of a lot more believable than magic! Show me a more convincing explanation than evolution, and I'd happily revise my belief, I'm certainly not married to it, and it's not something that defines me. I try to be humble about things I cannot be certain about, and there are many things of which I am not. "Faith" is what is used to cease inquiry. It's deciding there's an answer without qualifying it first. People who pretend to know there is a God have already decided it's true, and are not interested in scrutinizing the validity of their conclusion. It defines them, and the way they view the world, and it's a belief that undermines the value placed on the experience of life that we all happen to share, belief in God or not. It's a conviction of absolute certainty, and it's 100% incoherent of plausibility or intelligible purpose. Could I prove to a stranger that there is no planet between Earth and Mars if they thought there was one? No. But my being unable to do so doesn't make their belief anymore justified. Nor is my being unable to know exactly how a magician appears to be pulling a rabbit from a hat make it anymore unlikely to be a trick. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Natural selection over the course of millions of years is STILL an attempt at a natural explanation. Supernatural magicians add nothing to our understanding of complexity. It's just a pacifier and a distraction.
