Tym
Well-Known Member
So it's an argument from ignorance..Sorry, I didn't see "Religulous". I don't get my information from a stand-up comedian and failed actor with an agenda.
I simply believe that the universe is just too perfect to have happened by accident. That is my belief and there is nothing that can shake my Faith.
You folks put too much effort into this and spend an inordinate amount of time on debating "What IF's" instead of concentrating on "What IS".
Because you don't understand something, you believe the one thing you can understand..
That's fine if you want to be intellectually bankrupt. But to be honest with yourself, you should ask yourself "what created the creator?". You will find that the creator hypothesis answers no questions, and only raises more.
Furthermore Who said it happened by accident? The scientific theories don't make that claim. Only creationist posit that claim.
When you talk of beliefs and unshakable faith, you talk of dreams and feelings. A very emotional stance on the subject in question. This of course, adds no validity to the truth value of the statement. Your feelings and preferences of the beginnings of our universe (whatever you would call the beginning most likely is not what the theory claims), do not trump the observable, testable, repeatable and proven facts of the science as we know it.
If you claim that nothing can shake your faith, you are in essence saying "I will not accept any evidence and I wish to remain willfully ignorant of all facts and apposing view points". This is the pinnacle of intellectual bankruptcy and declaration of the lack of reasoning and logic.
The only people here saying "What if" are the ones who hold beliefs unsupported by evidence. Those of us supported by evidence are talking about "what is" as we are talking about what is demonstrable. "What if" is reserved for those who make claims they cannot support with evidence and reject valid demonstrable evidence on the grounds of willful ignorance.