it's still a coincidence

millions for an example, ok: I Pick The Lottery Numbers That My Cousin Suggests, I Win The Lottery (1 in 50 million or something chance) Does That Mean My Cousin is God?

The lottery is a predictable event. Someone will always win, and at specific times.

This was a totally different type of indecent - the man had no knowledge of where his daughter was, and was told to call a place in China (the man lived in the US), at a very specific restaurant, and ask for his daughter.

Not only do you have the odds of calling a specific restaurant - 1 in 1,000,000, but the odds of his daughter being at this specific restaurant, at this specific time. Do you know how much higher those odds are?

It's about as likely as you giving the coordinates to an astronomer to look for 10th planet thousands of AU away, describing the atmospheric composition, and being 100% correct on all accounts. Big difference between that and winning the lotto.

sorry, my firefox with no script tends to shove everything together. I fixed it.

That doesn't actually answer any questions though. If a person earnestly seeks god for over twenty years, does so in numerous branches of christianity, judaism, islam, eastern religions, spends more than twenty years praying to be shown truth, and be shown nothing except that religions are bunk, and the holy books even bunkier (if that's a word). If god "wants" people in his life and yet refuses to reveal himself to the majority of the world, and the people he doesn't reveal himself to are going to be punished for his hiding, what does that say about the man? I mean do you really believe that only the people who are now christians were actually seeking god? And you don't think it's fishy that the people seeking him all seem to share geographic location? I guess the people of bosnia could care less about religious truth, and don't think too much about it. They only found allah.

I don't think man is intrinsically evil, I think that is a terrible view. I think man is intrisically flawed for the world we are trying to create. We aren't built to create massive, peaceful world civilizations. It is genetically built into our brains through millions of years of survival to form groups, procreate, grab as much as we can for status and pleasure, and conquer other groups. But I think we inherently also have the ability for kindness and empathy, genetically we are pre-disposed towards good things too. Our biggest advantage is our ability to understand this, to look inside ourselves something the vast majority of animals are incapable of. Our self awareness grants us the ability to resist and overcome our xenophobic, us vs them mentality, and our desire for status, power and to be the alpha in our pack. The world we are trying to live in now is not the savage world we grew up in, but we still retain the same tribal, and often animal mentalities that got us this far. But I do not see this as "evil" though, no more than I see a wolf that preys on a wounded lamb as being "evil". But the difference between us and the wolf, is that we no longer need to prey on the weak in order to survive.

like i said coincidence, it proves nothing

something being unlikely does not make it divine intervention

Slight correction, the lottery isn't predictable, somebody doesn't always win at a specific time. Something like the local Powerball just goes on and on until somebody wins. The pot grows as more people play and the odds of winning are millions to one. Sooner or later somebody wins, but mathematically it's ridiculously unlikely that a person can win. What's funny, is they always show the winner, and the winner always claims it's god. Unlikely but fortunate things are always attributed to god by those that believe in him.

And that's an interesting story, but do you think that hindu people simply have none of those stories? Do you think that just as many ridiculous things haven't happened in the name of Vishnu? Are those just coincedences? Every religion has an assload of miracle stories, even scientologists. Tom Cruise claims he has healed his own illnesses with the power of his mind. Coincedence? Or the work of a high level thetan?

The fact that I healed my stomach ache with the power of my ass
doesn't make me a scientologist.

Yup, coincidence. Proves nothing. Sorry. Well, no, I'm not.

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a coincidental event is not proof of anything, other than coincidence, we know coincidences happen.

Christians should all give up god and buy an ice-cream.