(June 6, 2014 at 8:55 am)bennyboy Wrote: You say you aren't Christian, but your arguments for a god are very Christian, specifically fundamentalist American Christian. I suppose you live in the Bible Belt, right?
I think you have some ideas, but you seem not to know about some of the concepts that you are about to be hammered on the head with. You are for sure going to be asked for evidence-- your belief won't be taken seriously unless you have meaningful evidence. I'd recommend you look up "supervenience" as well, and understand what it means, because your argument is essentially an argument against the supervenience of mind.
I'm with you on the sublime nature of mind. However, I'm not sure why you think the idea of a God is require-- or even, what the word "god" even means to you.
I am not Christian, although I may agree with them on a very few things; I agree with atheist on some things, and some Christians I know think I sound like an atheist. As far as supervenience , I think things can occur unexpectantly , but if it was deliberately done, that is different. In example, if I walk down a street and find a dime, I think nothing of it. If I walk further and find 3 dimes on the ground, I can begin to suspect things. If I walk further and find 100 dimes on the ground, yet each standing on their edges, perfectly balanced, then I can KNOW that this was deliberately done.
Now the universe is far more than dimes on the ground, but I can see deliberate design in it. I can see an anthropic type of principle, which is just more evidence of a god in my view. If the dimes were not balanced by some precise force, it could not be done. If the earth was closer to the sun, it would be too hot and we would not exist. If it was much further away, we could not exist.
No, things in our reality are too deliberate , the earth was obviously well suited for humans.