RE: The Periodic Table and religion
May 31, 2015 at 7:20 am
(This post was last modified: May 31, 2015 at 7:22 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Would the earth be more perfect? I doubt you'd find anyone who believes that will subject their god to a standard of chemical composition or existence.
Is it curious that we're constructed out of common elements? I'd say no, we were going to be composed of something, common elements have a higher statistical probability of being that thing -if for no other reason than that they are the most common-. That's regardless of who, what, or why we were supposed to have been created (laying aside outlier propositions such as "god intended for us to be a race of super soldiers" - then maybe it might have made sense to make us out of something else...but even here there is an assumption that god actually had a choice in the matter).
So no, I don;t think that it would be all that good an argument against god, though it's a fine argument against a world "built for us" by a competent, caring creator (neither of which is something god is required to be).
Is it curious that we're constructed out of common elements? I'd say no, we were going to be composed of something, common elements have a higher statistical probability of being that thing -if for no other reason than that they are the most common-. That's regardless of who, what, or why we were supposed to have been created (laying aside outlier propositions such as "god intended for us to be a race of super soldiers" - then maybe it might have made sense to make us out of something else...but even here there is an assumption that god actually had a choice in the matter).
So no, I don;t think that it would be all that good an argument against god, though it's a fine argument against a world "built for us" by a competent, caring creator (neither of which is something god is required to be).
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