RE: the stars
November 14, 2014 at 9:58 pm
(This post was last modified: November 14, 2014 at 9:59 pm by Simon Moon.)
Over 100 billion galaxies, each with at least 100 billion stars, and most of those with unimaginable number of planets, at least some of them are almost sure to have life.
All created for our entertainment?! Yeah...
If some deity wanted to create something that was 'pretty' for our benefit, why not just a giant shell a few million miles past the limits of our solar system with just the images of stars and galaxies displayed on it?
Oh wait, that's pretty much what the goat herders that wrote the Bible actually thought...
![[Image: Flammarion%20woodcut%20(resized)_thumb.png?imgmax=800]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=lh4.ggpht.com%2F_gizIEue5rKU%2FSVv1vT5zs3I%2FAAAAAAAAA9M%2FBPLyJJAB4Wc%2FFlammarion%2520woodcut%2520%28resized%29_thumb.png%3Fimgmax%3D800)
All created for our entertainment?! Yeah...
If some deity wanted to create something that was 'pretty' for our benefit, why not just a giant shell a few million miles past the limits of our solar system with just the images of stars and galaxies displayed on it?
Oh wait, that's pretty much what the goat herders that wrote the Bible actually thought...
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
