I've said it before but the whole problem with theists is their anthropic view of the Universe.
Human beings are pattern seeking creatures who have a strong desire to have questions answered and to ask them. To this end they will construct all sorts of explanations for seemingly impossible to answer questions. They are also impatient and will 'jump to conclusions' rather than put in the work to really find out what's going on.
It seems natural to look for a divine 'father' of some sort. But this is only because we live and historically have lived in a male dominated society and as children looked up and respected our biological father.
Because as a race we can construct intricate and delicate machinery and art and music, our pattern seeking minds leap to the conclusion that the whole world and all of nature must have also been created.
This kind of thinking, while explained from an evolutionary point of view, is no more credible than a child believing that the rain is really angels crying or distant tribes believing that thunder is the sound of waring gods.
It is intellectual laziness to credit all that you cannot understand to a mystical and all powerful creator. Especially the kind that inhabits the pages of the bible.
And I know we atheists keep banging on about evidence but it really is the only way that we can make any sort of progress in our understanding of the Universe and it's origins. As far as creationism or intelligent design are concerned, they is absolutely no evidence to support them, and I mean NONE! And even if there were an intelligence at the backdrop of all reality then it would be so alien and counter intuitive that to consider it would have created and designed life in the sense that we could understand and then to apply our own feeble anthropic desires on the nature of all things shows a staggeringly arrogant view of our own place in the Universe.
Human beings are pattern seeking creatures who have a strong desire to have questions answered and to ask them. To this end they will construct all sorts of explanations for seemingly impossible to answer questions. They are also impatient and will 'jump to conclusions' rather than put in the work to really find out what's going on.
It seems natural to look for a divine 'father' of some sort. But this is only because we live and historically have lived in a male dominated society and as children looked up and respected our biological father.
Because as a race we can construct intricate and delicate machinery and art and music, our pattern seeking minds leap to the conclusion that the whole world and all of nature must have also been created.
This kind of thinking, while explained from an evolutionary point of view, is no more credible than a child believing that the rain is really angels crying or distant tribes believing that thunder is the sound of waring gods.
It is intellectual laziness to credit all that you cannot understand to a mystical and all powerful creator. Especially the kind that inhabits the pages of the bible.
And I know we atheists keep banging on about evidence but it really is the only way that we can make any sort of progress in our understanding of the Universe and it's origins. As far as creationism or intelligent design are concerned, they is absolutely no evidence to support them, and I mean NONE! And even if there were an intelligence at the backdrop of all reality then it would be so alien and counter intuitive that to consider it would have created and designed life in the sense that we could understand and then to apply our own feeble anthropic desires on the nature of all things shows a staggeringly arrogant view of our own place in the Universe.
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