(November 14, 2014 at 9:21 pm)fojo Wrote: Had a lovely clear sky here in Ireland tonight. Stars everywhere. Then the thought hit me. If this was all made for us then why make space ridiculously massive? Surely that would be entirely pointless? My girlfriend suggested it might be because stars are pretty but what about the billions of planets we can't see. Sound like a good plan to you?
This was one of my first questions when I was a young proto-atheist. I never really bought in to the dogma, but the idea that we are just some biological detritus on a rock in the boonies of a galaxy that is just one of billions like it was too much to accept when the alternate explanation is that it is all for us.
What hubris.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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