(June 6, 2014 at 1:22 pm)Napoléon Wrote:(June 6, 2014 at 1:20 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: I think one indication might be once we venture out there if we find much in the way of intelligent life and other civilizations. For the deist model to hold, I would expect we'd find we're not the only petri dish in God's lab. If it is just us, the cosmic lottery looks like a stronger explanation.
I really don't see how finding more life would make deism any more viable or believable.
I didn't say it would prove. I said it's what I'd expect to find. We can't debate what are the odds of intelligent civilizations evolving without seeing a much larger sample of the universe.
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