RE: Atheism and the existence of peanut butter
December 5, 2021 at 6:41 pm
(This post was last modified: December 5, 2021 at 6:42 pm by Simon Moon.)
(December 1, 2021 at 3:52 pm)Klorophyll Wrote: You're right. What did convince me of God isn't this argument, but simply the appearance of order and complexity around me, that's it.
Well...
There's just one of your many mistakes in thinking.
You even state one of the problems right in your statement above, "the appearance of design. Sorry, but the appearance of design, does not mean there is actual design.
Here is but just one of many examples of why appearance of design does not mean design:
Another problem with your thinking, is that, we don't detect design by their complexity, we detect design by contrasting designed things with things that occur naturally.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.