“Speculating about the existence of God is no excuse for absurdity.”
Chris Newell
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Speculating about the existence of warp drive is no excuse for absurdity, either, but I’m not going to let that keep me from wearing my Starfleet Academy hoodie!!! LOL
Out of this vast profusion of planets, it’s entirely reasonable to expect that a rare few would have everything right: the right distance from their parent star, the right material composition, the right amount of liquid water, and all the other factors necessary for life to arise and thrive. We are the lucky ones, because we wouldn’t be here if we weren’t. Thus, the well-suitedness of our planet – compared to all the other planets that aren’t – isn’t an argument for theism, but a potent argument for atheism. The universe we live in is what we’d expect a godless universe to look like, or to put it another way, this hypothesis has superior explanatory power: atheism predicts a universe just like the one we see.
February 16th, 2012 at 6:01
“Speculating about the existence of god is absurdity.”
February 16th, 2012 at 9:30
Well, one can speculate. But I’d like to know how one could do any more than speculate without becoming absurd.
February 16th, 2012 at 10:42
“Speculating about the existence of
Godleprechauns is no excuse for absurdity.”February 16th, 2012 at 19:13
Speculating about the existence of warp drive is no excuse for absurdity, either, but I’m not going to let that keep me from wearing my Starfleet Academy hoodie!!! LOL
February 16th, 2012 at 19:26
Jeff – Awesome.
February 16th, 2012 at 19:55
Out of this vast profusion of planets, it’s entirely reasonable to expect that a rare few would have everything right: the right distance from their parent star, the right material composition, the right amount of liquid water, and all the other factors necessary for life to arise and thrive. We are the lucky ones, because we wouldn’t be here if we weren’t. Thus, the well-suitedness of our planet – compared to all the other planets that aren’t – isn’t an argument for theism, but a potent argument for atheism. The universe we live in is what we’d expect a godless universe to look like, or to put it another way, this hypothesis has superior explanatory power: atheism predicts a universe just like the one we see.
Adam Lee on February 16, 2012, 6:00 AM
http://bigthink.com/ideas/42490
February 16th, 2012 at 22:31
are you allowed to speculate in public…..
or am i thinking of something else !!??!!??