RE: God: Misinterpreted as an extraterrestrial?
September 26, 2011 at 5:12 pm
(This post was last modified: September 26, 2011 at 5:15 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
It's well within sanity to state that "we don't know". You believe that you know, but believing and knowing are not directly equivalent. Not in common usage, not in definition, not in any way whatsoever, period.
God is by no means a simpler idea than descent with modification. The god concept doesn't even show up as a blip on the radar of simplicity.
There are claims as to what god has given us, and of course claims as to which god gave us exactly what. Claims. Nothing more, unless you have evidence?
Any part of the visible world is proof of the visible world, not faeries. The entirety of the visible world is again proof of the same, and again, not faeries. Everything answers are nothing answers.
If we have evidence of the universe's beginning, it is evidence only of that. It does not extend to "goddidit" unless you have evidence for the existence of god. Your if is showing.
Actually, the "only way a naturalistic origin is plausible" is by realizing that this sort of origin is exactly what has happened here, unless you have evidence that would suggest otherwise? A creator is not yet required to deal with this one universe, why then would he be more necessary to account for more than one? Honestly, just give some evidence for fine tuning or stop talking about it, it's embarrassing.
Evidence of a creator, communication from said creator, the lack of limits to his abilities? You'll have to forgive me if I fail to see the value of a practical application of christianity in my life (especially considering the way in which christians cavort around this website making their entire faith look like complete morons).
God is by no means a simpler idea than descent with modification. The god concept doesn't even show up as a blip on the radar of simplicity.
There are claims as to what god has given us, and of course claims as to which god gave us exactly what. Claims. Nothing more, unless you have evidence?
Any part of the visible world is proof of the visible world, not faeries. The entirety of the visible world is again proof of the same, and again, not faeries. Everything answers are nothing answers.
If we have evidence of the universe's beginning, it is evidence only of that. It does not extend to "goddidit" unless you have evidence for the existence of god. Your if is showing.
Actually, the "only way a naturalistic origin is plausible" is by realizing that this sort of origin is exactly what has happened here, unless you have evidence that would suggest otherwise? A creator is not yet required to deal with this one universe, why then would he be more necessary to account for more than one? Honestly, just give some evidence for fine tuning or stop talking about it, it's embarrassing.
Evidence of a creator, communication from said creator, the lack of limits to his abilities? You'll have to forgive me if I fail to see the value of a practical application of christianity in my life (especially considering the way in which christians cavort around this website making their entire faith look like complete morons).
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