(December 15, 2019 at 8:24 pm)Paleophyte Wrote:(December 15, 2019 at 7:05 am)Otangelo Wrote: I don't choose to be a theist, I just can not force my brain to accept the claim that Biological cells which are a factory park of unparalleled gigantic complexity and purposeful adaptive design of interlinked high-tech fabrics, fully automated and self-replicating, directed by genes and epigenetic languages and signalling networks, could emerge by no guiding intelligence, but random unguided lucky accidents.
And yet you have no trouble believing in an infinitely complex Creator that you can't see who exists eternally.
(December 14, 2019 at 6:12 pm)Otangelo Wrote: No, i dont. Asking for proofs of Gods existence is a silly epistemological approach and demonstrates the lack of understanding on the unbeliever's side how to get sound conclusions on origins.
Really? Great!
Marvin the Amazing Pancake, Creator of the Universe and Lord of Everything, demands your obeisance! Kneel before Marvin or be condemned to The Griddle for Eternity!!!
No, I don't have to prove a word of that rubbish. That would be a "silly epistemological approach demonstrating the lack of understanding on the unbeliever's side."
It always amazes me how much these chumps use the very same burden of proof that they try and dodge.
God is a remarkably simple entity. As a non-physical entity, a mind is not composed of parts, and its salient properties, like self-consciousness, rationality, and volition, are essential to it. In contrast to the contingent and variegated universe with all its inexplicable quantities and constants, a divine mind is startlingly simple. Certainly such a mind may have complex ideas—it may be thinking, for example, of the infinitesimal calculus—, but the mind itself is a remarkably simple entity