Hasn't it ever occurred to theists that if the conditions were not right, if the required elements and forces in the universe did not come together at the exact time necessary that we simply wouldn't exist? If life did not occur here on Earth through some cataclysmic halt to the natural process by which we did form from microbrial life, leave the water, and evolve into a wide variety of species spanning billions of years then it simply would have happened somewhere else. The problem isn't the mathematical probability of events happening at the right moment, the problem is that most of us cannot wrap our heads around our sheer and utter insignificance in the grand scheme of things.
This planet may be fine tuned for us, but it would have to be, otherwise we wouldn't exist, and life on some other planet would be discussing this very same issue.
This planet may be fine tuned for us, but it would have to be, otherwise we wouldn't exist, and life on some other planet would be discussing this very same issue.
"In our youth, we lacked the maturity, the decency to create gods better than ourselves so that we might have something to aspire to. Instead we are left with a host of deities who were violent, narcissistic, vengeful bullies who reflected our own values. Our gods could have been anything we could imagine, and all we were capable of manifesting were gods who shared the worst of our natures."-Me
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men." – Francis Bacon
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men." – Francis Bacon
