Your stuff just keeps getting better and better.

Philippians 1:3-6.

Jim Burgon

And yes, there is evidence for other planets (though not for life on them), so that’s a little difference to “god”, who seems to have had a change of mind 2000 years ago and stopped doing obvious miracles to get people believing in him…

And yes, there’s a difference, but the idea is the same. Still doesn’t change anything that this world was not created for today’s life, but life simply evolved into the state that it is today. No need for god here. But you would probably think winning the lottery has something to do with god and not statistics.

The reason I meant the planets of our solar systems, is because those are the only planets that we can see their surfaces, and know enough about them to see how precious the superabundance of life is on the Earth.

Interestingly, you do not accept the evidence for the existence of God, because you want to be able to see God before you will believe in Him, yet, you accept the alleged evidence for planets outside our solar system, although you have never seen one; you have only seen the evidence that they must exist.

Life on the Earth far exceeds the idea of merely pouring water into a hole. Oh my goodness, the thousands, perhaps millions of things that have to be in place for us to be here boggles the mind.

Don Ruhl

Again, a ‘bases-loaded’ home run.

Jim Burgoon

Yes, I know that you meant them, which means you take out some random planets, point to them and say “See, they are worse.” This is like taking five random places – four of them in the desert – and saying “See, Florida is better!”. It doesn’t make sense. There are many more planets and probably some of them are able to support life – each one making earth less significant.

I don’t need to tell you even one thing, because the sum of observations is still not evidence. You say, that you have never seen something like that – and I tell you, that with the things you (and mankind) haven’t seen we could fill libraries. It’s an argument from ignorance – “I don’t know otherwise, so it has to be true.”.

And a lie is a lie, no matter how old it is and how many people have been fooled by it, true.

Of course we fit here nicely – because we evolved into this place. Take a little hole in the ground… When rain fills it with water, do you say “Oh, see, how this hole is so perfectly formed for the water?” No, of course not, you say “The water has taken on the form of the hole.”. Same thing with life: Life has adapted to this planet, not the other way around. Life has become perfectly fitting for this planet, not this planet is perfectly fitting for life.

And no, the sum of many non valid arguments is still not a one. Every single one is invalid, so the conclusion is not “thus god exists”.

And no, if I started thinking like the bible, I would already have threatened to torture you for eternity because you believe something different. But as I don’t want that, I will not start, ok?

Thanks for dropping by this blog. And thanks for reading at least one article.

When I asked the reader to compare the Earth to the other planets, I meant the planets in our solar system.

You challenged the idea that, “Everything is either a cause or an effect.” Tell me something that is excluded.

Concerning the verification that Scriptures provides: Truth is truth, even if written a long time ago. I am gullible enough to belief the truth, whether written today or ages ago.

Atomic Mutant, concerning the, “tremendous design,” of this place in which we live: Surely you know that we fit into our environment perfectly, and our environment accommodates us most wonderfully.

“The Cosmological Argument,” adds to the many pieces of evidence that there is a God.

In your last paragraph, you brought up something that King David wondered about,

“When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The moon and the stars, which You have ordained,
What is man that You are mindful of him,
And the son of man that You visit him?
For You have made him a little lower than the angels,
And You have crowned him with glory and honor.”
(Psa 8:3–5)

Be careful, you are starting to think like the Bible!

Ok. How are they? There a billions of them out there. If you have good information about them, please share them. They’ll probably give you a nobel prize or something like that.

“Everything is either a cause or an effect ”

Nice claim. Proof? (And please note, that for the god idea to work, this rule is WRONG.)

“Scripture verifies”

You really want to tell us that the writing of some bronze age guys “verifies” anything? Really? I’ve got a London bridge to sell, if you are THAT gullible…

“They show tremendous design. ”

Nope. Your sentence shows the desire of people to see patterns everywhere. Nothing else.

“The Cosmological Argument is…”

…neither valid nor does it lead to god. Let’s assume it was valid, then it would not point to god, just a cause, which does not have to be a person, as you correctly wrote – just then ignored to put in your god.

“He who created all things must have been very interested in our lives.”

Why? Let’s assume it exists, then it created a huge universe. Why should it care about some organic dirt on an insignificant planet? Perhaps the whole thing was to play around with stars and biological contamination was purely accidental?

Since God wants us to be involved in His life all the time, He put His Holy Spirit right inside you and me, believers, both individually (Galatians 2:20) and collectively (Ephesians 1:22-23) as the Church.

Jim