Jay520 said:
timmah said:
dsgrue3 said:
timmah said:
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dsgrue3 said:
It isn't a testable hypothesis. I am not claiming anything. And I am telling you that you can't claim anything either.
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So, you've both agreed that neither the existence or non-existence of God can be determined with 100% certainty. I guess the big question is, who has more to lose if they're wrong?
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I think the answer to that question is obvious. A better question is where does the evidence lead us? Does the evidence or lack thereof point toward a supernatural being, or no? I think the answer to that question is obvious as well, but perhaps that's just me.
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To somebody who believes in God, the immense complexity of the natural world, the amazing interconnected systems that allow all levels of life to function, the interdependence of plant and animal life, the necessity for such precision in the distance of the earth from the sun, exact composition of the atmosphere, necessity of magnetic poles to repel deadly cosmic radiation, and the countless other exact specifications necessary for life that exist on earth add up to an unsurmountable pile of evidence for intelligent design. You see it otherwise. I can see one of those things as being mathematically possible via some equation, but when you add all of them up, there is no way in my view that the entirity of the systems on this life sustaining planet could possibly happen by random chance. This is why it really depends on what evidence you look at it, and how you interpret that evidence.
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It's really not that unlikely when you think about it. Our galaxy alone has over 100 billion planets. And our galaxy is one of at least 3-400 billion galaxies in the known universe. I'm no mathematician, so the total number of planets in the universe is probably a number I don't even know. Suffice to say, the chances of at least one planet having those characteristics you mentioned is rather high. In fact, there's probably tons of planets like Earth that we haven't discovered.
We've already found several Earth-like planets in a very tiny portion of the universe actually. http://youtube.com/watch?v=xlEDoO3w5CY&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DxlEDoO3w5CY |
Even if you have all of those characteristics on a planet, you still have to add up all of the probabilities that lead you to even a single cell of reproducing life, as well as the fact that, if it would take billions of years for that fragile, single cell to develop, there is zero chance that the climate and conditions of the planet
stay stable enough for that entire time for this fragile, first life to develop over that massive amount of time.
