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without science, war would be on an abysmally smaller scale than what it is
Originally posted by Blue_Jay331. Evil and false religions.
2. No sold empirical proof.
3. The mess the world is in, and God not stepping in to stop it.
4. The theory of evolution.
5. Christians saying the world and everything in it made in 6-24 hour days.
6. Accountability denial syndrome.
7. Crazy religious people.
John Polkinghorne, formerly a physicist at Cambridge University, concluded: "When you realize that the laws of nature must be incredibly finely tuned to produce the universe we see, that conspires to plant the idea that the universe did not just happen, but that there must be a purpose behind it."
Australian physicist Paul Davies made a similar point: "There is no doubt that many scientists are . . . scornful of the notion that there might exist a God, or even an impersonal creative principle." He added: "Personally I do not share their scorn. . . . I cannot believe that our existence in this universe is a mere quirk of fate, . . . an incidental blip in the great cosmic drama."
"When you realize that the laws of nature must be incredibly finely tuned to produce the universe we see, that conspires to plant the idea that the universe did not just happen, but that there must be a purpose behind it."
Originally posted by Mike_A
"When you realize that the laws of nature must be incredibly finely tuned to produce the universe we see, that conspires to plant the idea that the universe did not just happen, but that there must be a purpose behind it."
But that’s nonsense, it’s like throwing a million grains of rice on the floor and then saying “because a million separate grains had to fall in an exact place to create that exact pattern there must be a design behind it.”
If something in the universe was different it would still exist, it would be different but the above quote would always apply.
The problem is that any small departure from the critical density grows with time, and yet the universe today remains very close to flat.[notes 7] Given that a natural timescale for departure from flatness might be the Planck time, 10−43 seconds, the fact that the universe has reached neither a Heat Death nor a Big Crunch after billions of years requires some explanation. For instance, even at the relatively late age of a few minutes (the time of nucleosynthesis), the universe density must have been within one part in 1014 of its critical value, or it would not exist as it does today.[43]
the op has every right to assume god has something to do with this
you're just taking the glass is half empty stance.
or we were really really really really super super super super super SUPER SUPER SUPER! Lucky.
Originally posted by Mike_A
I don't see why you're making the leap from math to god. Why does an observable pattern mean it must have been created? Why can’t this just be an ultimately random pattern that exists only because of the way in which the universe' constants interact?
Since we only have the one universe to observe this sequence may seem remarkable but if we could change just one variable then perhaps we would see this sequence change thus demonstrating that it isn’t there by design but by circumstance.
Where is the need to bring a creator into the equation?
Originally posted by purplemonkeydishwasher
Perhaps one might evolve so far as to be able to create a universe of their own.