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Re: I wnet looking for evidence of God

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On Fri, 03 Jun 2016 17:04:05 -0700, Cloud Hobbit wrote:

> Just for the hell of it, i decided to search for "best evidence of God."

Note, not "evidence of _a_ god or gods", but specifically "of God".  So 
any evidence of, oh, a presumably legitimate miracle happening would 
support the conclusion "God"... because no other explanations, or even 
other entities, are allowed in the race.

Yeah, good start there.  Not like painting the target around the arrow, 
or anything.


> I checked out the first few websites, one of which was Rational wiki and
> they all had the same stuff.  How the fact that existence exists is
> evidence of God.

No, existence is evidence of existence.  To be evidence of gods, there 
would have to also be reason to conclude gods a) at least possibly exist, 
b) have some means of influencing existence in some manner, and c) that 
this influence is discernible.  None of these have been established.


> The whole thing about the eye being so complex.

An eye is not complex at all.  The simplest eyes are literally a patch of 
a few cells which respond to changes in light.  As much be amazed by the 
faculty of touch, or ability to sense heat.

Once the simplest eye is developed, any improvement, however slight, is a 
path to a modern eye.



> That the universe is life friendly.

Well over 50% of the surface of the planet is reasonably inhospitable; 
the rest of the universe, by and large, makes these places look like 
luxury resorts.  Or, in other words, the notion the universe is "life-
friendly" is either completely ignorant of reality, batshit insane, or 
both.

I think we can stop there; once the discussion has become about such 
outlandishly bizarre, contra-reality notions, there's no point 
continuing.  If the rest of the post had something actually sensible to 
say, please feel free to repost that part.

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I wnet looking for evidence of God Cloud Hobbit <youngblood2949@gmail.com> - 2016-06-03 17:04 -0700
  Re: I wnet looking for evidence of God Cloud Hobbit <youngblood2949@gmail.com> - 2016-06-03 17:12 -0700
  Re: I wnet looking for evidence of God MarkA <someone@somewhere.invalid> - 2016-06-04 02:04 +0000
    Re: I wnet looking for evidence of God Cloud Hobbit <youngblood2949@gmail.com> - 2016-06-03 21:17 -0700
      Re: I wnet looking for evidence of God MarkA <someone@somewhere.invalid> - 2016-06-04 15:37 +0000
    Re: I wnet looking for evidence of God Cloud Hobbit <youngblood2949@gmail.com> - 2016-06-03 21:22 -0700
    Re: I wnet looking for evidence of God Cloud Hobbit <youngblood2949@gmail.com> - 2016-06-03 21:24 -0700
      Re: I wnet looking for evidence of God Jeanne Douglas <hlwdjsd2@NOSPAMgmail.com> - 2016-06-04 04:38 -0700
        Re: I wnet looking for evidence of God hypatiab7 <hypatiab7@comcast.net> - 2016-06-06 03:17 -0700
    Re: I wnet looking for evidence of God hhyapster@gmail.com - 2016-06-04 03:47 -0700
  Re: I wnet looking for evidence of God Kelsey Bjarnason <kbjarnason@gmail.com> - 2016-06-05 15:32 -0700

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