Possible goldilocks planet (The limitations of science)

by dhw, Sunday, April 20, 2014, 11:42 (3652 days ago) @ xeno6696

dhw: Supposing there is no life on any of the habitable planets? Same interpretations: freak versus special choice. Hey ho, nobody can win.-DAVID: No, if Earth is the only special place for life, the theists would seem to have the stronger argument. The odds then imply God's hand in the mix.-MATT: Not quite. What dhw is driving at is simply that philosophy always allows you to infinitely regress to non-terminating questions. 
The trump card for any claim is direct evidence, positive OR negative. Lacking that, no one has any kind of a "strong" case at all: Just speculation.-Spot on, Matt. My point was that whether there is or isn't life and/or evolution on other planets will not make the slightest difference to the beliefs of theists or atheists, because any scenario can be adapted to either belief. Do you honestly think, David, that any atheist would agree with your statement? Now use your imagination and try this test: since you believe special Earth gives theists the stronger argument, if life is discovered elsewhere, do you think that will that give atheism the stronger argument?