| timmah said: That's a fair enough argument. By the same token, my faith doesn't come from something I read in a book (Bible or otherwise), it comes from deeply personal experiences in my life that have changed who I am in a hugely positive way. Also, I see those pointers differently then you, and like I've said before, you can't argue somebody into faith, and you're certainly not going to argue me out of my faith. |
So something weird and inexplicable happened to you, so that's the basis for your stance on the universe and religion?
Not a very good argument in the least. Further explains why I dislike debating religion. Believe it or not, personal, isoloated experiences followed by oddly convenient but non-reproduceable results is not logic, it's a logical fallacy known as confirmation bias; just becuase it happened to you doesn't mean it's the majority or in any way admissable as proof or concrete evidence.
That's as foolish as the smoker who lives to 90 and doesn't die of cancer saying "there's no link between smoking and lung cancer." just becuase it didn't happen to you doesn't mean it doesn't happen to others. Or, in your case, like the person who gets struck by lightning and survives, living the rest of his life like he could be struck again at any time, but inexplicably believes in God becuase he was one of the fortunate ones who survived.
Extraordinary events and circumstances certainly are extraordinary, but they are not concrete proof of a creator. Just because the chances of all the right proteins and acids and materials coming together at the right place at the right time is astronomically small doesn't mean it's impossible. You really think that, on this earth in the BILLIONS of years and countless chemical reactions happening every millisecond of those billions of years, that the right combo couldn't come along. I agree it's a long shot, but the fact that we were able to recreate it in a lab show's it's possible, so even though it's highly unlikely, it's still possible. You don't need a divine creator to justify that happening, just good old fashioned math.
