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Re: God - A Fantasy?
Posted by Jeffrey (Guest) - Saturday, March 3 2012, 4:01:19 (UTC)
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Arrow wrote:
>On stage magic, the illusionist displays an empty hat, out of which he then pulls a rabbit. “Where did the rabbit come from?”, we ask. “That's a silly question” atheists retort, “Of course it came from nowhere! Don't you know that the universe, on its own, also came from nowhere?”
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>There are two possibilities:
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>1. The universe was created
>2. It came into existence out of sheer chance.
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>Should we place faith in the second statement? Do things happen on their own, move on their own, spring out of non-existence on their own, and without any reason or purpose?
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>Really?
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>If we consider all the knowledge in the world and how much do we know of it, how can we say “for sure there is no God”?

I'm wondering if maybe a more appropriate question is, "Even if we accepted your fallacious argument as it is currently framed, does the answer really matter or change anything?" Here we are, bodies of energy wrapped in bodies of flesh, reading, eating, living our lives. What changes if the universe was created by Ganish, or if it came to existence by happenstance? I am accepting the terms of the questions that you have framed, and even now, still don't see the relevance. If you had the answer, would life be any more or less interesting, would your life change in any meaningful way?



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