I am a man of faith and I am totally convinced that there is a God because the evidence is all around us. To think that this universe, with all of the intrinsic engineering, just came out of nothing is absolutely idiocy!! There HAD to be a designer, a builder for this world to exist.
That's an Argument from Ignorance fallacy, saying, "I just can't imagine it being any other way.. THEREFORE... GOD!"
Whats wrong with just saying "I don't know"?
I have used this illustration; suppose you were to take a Chevy automobile apart and put all of the individual parts into a huge cement mixer and start it to turn. How long would it take for all of those parts to come back together, without a person putting them together, and to be a whole car? You could turn that mixer for a billion years, a trillion years, a zillion years, and you would NEVER have a car again.
You're saying just b/c something is HIGHLY unlikely, that means it can't happen which again is a fallacy.
It's like if you're playing bridge and you're dealt an all Spades hand... that would be VERY unlikely, but if it happens.. IT HAPPENS. And FYI, all other hands are just as unlikely!
Its like if I have a hat and have the numbers 1-1000000 on pieces of paper in the hat and I draw one at random, and say, I draw number, 40,182...it'd be like me saying, "NO WAY could I have drawn the number 40,182!! That was a 1 and 1 million chance!!!! That was just TOO unlikely!!" But the thing is if I'm drawing I HAVE to draw one number and which ever I draw is a 1 to million chance!
And the universe is not LIKE a car! What makes you think the universe is finely engineered? We know a CAR is engineered b/c EVERY case of a car existing had a builder... We know things have a builder from COMPARING and CONSTRASTING with other things... We have NO OTHER universe to compare this one to, So again what makes you think this universe is so fine tuned? WHat would your idea of a non_God designed universe look like?
I have often said; it takes much more faith to NOT believe in God than it does to believe in him.
Does it take more faith NOT to believe in Zeus, than to believe in him?
And God is supposedly SO complex and powerful... who created HIM? Surely a being THAT POWERFUL couldn't have just ALWAYS existed!
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