(February 28, 2015 at 2:24 pm)Thirschman Wrote: In a college Biology class, a young man once told me that the existence of "God" was proven by the perfect design of our solar system. Because, if the Earth were one millimeter closer to the sun, we would burn up- and if we were one millimeter farther away, we would freeze....
Clearly, someone missed that day of school in the 4th grade, when the elliptical orbit of the Earth and the resulting SEASONS were explained.
I've also heard this one: "well, if God doesn't exist, then who wrote the bible?".
Or, my personal favorite of circular reasoning: "God exists because it says so in the bible.".
What you fail to see is he is using millimetres like some creationists use the biblical day, so a "millimetre" could be anything from a millimetre to a light year in distance.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
