Cosmology: milky way size is enormous (Introduction)

by David Turell , Friday, June 07, 2019, 14:29 (1783 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: I am not questioning your belief in God. I am questioning your interpretation of your God’s motives and methods.

DAVID: Whenever we question God's designs, research eventually shows the reasons: the retina an the appendix are two examples. I don't question the size of the universe. Do you think just our galaxy should exist?

dhw: Just like Dawkins, you hope your interpretation of the universe will be proven correct. No, I don’t think just our galaxy should exist. I am asking you to explain why you think your God created vast numbers of galaxies unsuitable for life if – as you constantly maintain – his only purpose for creating the universe was to produce H. sapiens. I am not questioning your God’s designs but your interpretation of his motives and methods, and I do not find “research eventually shows the reasons” a very satisfying answer to my question about galaxies.

DAVID: You should understand I simply accept what God as done. You have the problem of wondering why. I know my current efforts art explaining things to you as I see them falls short. But I do see scientific advances as explaining as time goes by.

dhw: I’m sorry, but you always talk non-stop about your God’s purposefulness, and have even accused me of NOT seeing this. Purpose is the reason why actions are performed. You do not "simply accept what God has done", because you insist that his sole purpose was to produce H. sapiens. You yourself don’t know why he specially designed all those small galaxies unsuitable for life, and you don’t know why he specially designed the salmon’s migratory reproduction system. And so now you don’t want to talk about purpose!

I do see God's purposefulness, but you are asking me questions I cannot answer with any kind of theory, while I know God acted with purpose as He fine tuned our universe. Explaining His designs are just like doubting the design of the retina. Research always manages to show why! And of course you can talk about it, but mostly you just doubt or humanize.