RE: If I were an Atheist
March 10, 2015 at 11:56 pm
(This post was last modified: March 11, 2015 at 12:14 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(March 10, 2015 at 10:28 pm)Drew_2013 Wrote: If we were arguing this case in front of a crowd of 100 people who are fair and impartial I think you would have a severe uphill climb trying to convince even one of them that something could be neither the result of planning and design but at the same time not the result of happenstance and blind luck. I think that would be just a case of special pleading.There's no planning or design in the way meltwater flows down my hillside...and yet, the path it takes is not random. I certainly don't see any need for special pleading. Do you?
I'm not sure why you have issues with this...do you think the meltwater on my hill (or my hill) has been designed so that the water takes a certain path? Or, do you think that the water -does not, or cannot or could not- take a certain path if it hadn't been designed (or the water hadn't been designed) to do so? Hell, look at yourself and the position espoused here. Am I to believe that the only way that you could arrive here, posting this non-random opinion.....is that you have been designed to do so? Or do you, even in your own ignorant worldview with regards to this particular issue, accept that random variables are capable of producing a non-random effect- such as your own opinion ?
In short..is it actually one or the other....or is that merely a requirement for your vapid (but, ironically, demonstrative) comments and opinions?
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