(May 3, 2016 at 4:51 am)Wryetui Wrote: I am starting this post because, so far, no atheist ever showed me evidence for their beliefs (or as you say, "lack of beliefs") and I am curious. I will play the person you believe I am, a "dumb redneck christian" and I will ask you things so you can answer them to me with evidence, of course. First question:
If God did not create the earth, how is it that we have an earth here and we live in it? Also, I beg, provide evidence for your claims.
We have an earth because the initial conditions of the universe were set so that eventually the earth would occur. I think you and I can agree on that, right?
But who/what set those conditions? We don't know at this point. It does, however, seem like there is evidence pointing to a multiverse. So perhaps this universe is just one of many (maybe infinite universes), and randomly assigned initial conditions for this particular universe just happened to be the right ones for earth to eventually appear.
Now do we have good evidence for the source of these randomly assigned universes? No, but God-believers aren't in any better position.