Feeling Reality (General)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Wednesday, February 16, 2011, 23:30 (4838 days ago) @ David Turell

George's point is valid. Mathematically, a one-off event over 4Bn years would be grossly overexaggerated in what we see today. -An old criticism of mine that David accepted is the fact that extrapolating life backwards from now is essentially impossible: we only have life as it is to study. It's entirely likely that the precursor to modern life managed to outcompete everything more primitive, or even that the precursors died in an environmental shift. -I've always considered your position that atheism necessarily believes in chance a false dichotomy. The default position is no explanation at all. Theism has proven invalid in its attempts to describe the world around us, and it is also their job to provide evidence to support their claims.-An atheist doesn't have to believe in chance, just because he doesn't acept a designer.

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