1st Dec 2013, 11:46 AM
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1st Dec 2013, 2:14 PM
Really interesting topic you got here. To me if God wanted people to know of his/ her existence then this conversation would not be happening right now, because he/ she would have made it very clear. so, I will assume God doesn't care if we know of him/ her. It is really hard for me to see how you could possibly prove scientifically that a creator exists. it seems you may be heading in the logical direction of explaining his or her existence based on the fact that our existence is so improbable that it had to come into existence due to some even more improbable being. if you are going to use science to prove we could not have come into being without a God, you need to use that same science to explain how God came into existence.
Unless you are going to use the argument of God always being here; Then I could just as easily say that universe was always here.
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Unless you are going to use the argument of God always being here; Then I could just as easily say that universe was always here.
2nd Dec 2013, 1:51 AM
Excellent points; I'm going to get to them in time; but I want to build my case a little bit before I get into possible explanations. However, if you see a book called BEFORE THE BEGINNING by the cosmologist George F.R. Ellis (not the other one of the same title by Sir Martin Rees) you'll get an idea of where I am going. Let's just say some of the explanations that have come forth for coincidences like that might be even more improbable than a Creator. But of course, I don't expect ANYONE to take my word for it.
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2nd Dec 2013, 3:46 AM
I don't understand. If God created the universe, apparently he or she is more complex than the universe, and any improbability the universe possesses is an improbability he or she also possess; making him or her even more improbable. the case you are making against the improbability of the universe (happing without a creator) can be used to also show the improbability of the creator. And you do realize that no matter how improbable something is does not mean it is impossible. Unless you can prove it is impossible; I don't see how you can make a valid case.
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I like oxygen. I'm a big fan of oxygen. But carbon's ability to do covalent bonds with a large assortment of other elements make it unsurpassed as a medium for complex, sustained chemical reactions (i.e., life) and is the medium for the only example we truly know of---earthly life.
Still, I don't want to be a carbon chauvinist, and several other non-carbon biochemistries have been proposed. I will examine what alien races would--or would not--be eliminated if the resonances didn't fall just right...next time.