The immensity of the universe (The nature of a \'Creator\')

by David Turell , Wednesday, January 20, 2016, 01:46 (3229 days ago) @ dhw


> DAVID: Without the supernovas there would be no life at all. It takes lots of explosions to spread the necessary elements around to the rocky planets that can support life. And the final evidence is here. We are debating each other. It worked at least once.
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> A good argument for atheistic chance. Given a potentially infinite number of exploding supernovas, eventually it will work “at least once”. But if you insist on your all-planning God being within and without everything, you are left with not only billions of failed experiments, but also the fact that he is still busy exploding his supernovas and his solar systems, even though according to you he has achieved his purpose. -No loss of a species is a failed event. It is evolution in process. As for supernovas, they are built into the cosmic system and maybe God has plans for more sentient species in this vast universe that will eventually communicate with us. 
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> DAVID: It still gets back to why is there anything?
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> dhw: Yes indeed. Not just why are there intelligent humans, but why is there anything at all?-There could just as well be nothing. Smells of purpose, since amazing humans have arrived and chance events seem not to be the approach.