Why Is Anybody Convinced There Is A God?

Aug 21, 2017 1:14:55 GMT gadreel said:

Aug 20, 2017 23:59:35 GMT ArArArchStanton said:

It's just that all you're doing is pretending it makes more sense when you have absolutely nothing to back that up with. Saying it makes more sense doesn't make it so, and saying it's more comfortable doesn't make it valid. You're justifying being delusional about reality.  Your interpretation has no merit.  Opinion shouldn't have anything to do with it. 

Just because I have not walked you through my reasoning does not mean I have no reason, to be fair I have only alluded to it, but when I say this is a long conversation I mean exactly that.  I did not come down in the last shower, my view on the nature of the universe is not uninformed.

Opinion has everything to do with it, given that we do not (and possibly cannot) know what the truth is.

Well all that really matters is if you can demonstrate it is real or not.

Just thinking about it isn't going to ever make it real. We didn't discover how light works just by thinking about it. We didn't discover black holes just by thinking about it.  And we aren't going to know anything about the origin of the universe just by thinking about it.

Saying it makes more sense to think intelligence is involved means absolutely nothing until you demonstrate that an intelligence was involved.

If you can do that, then great,  I'd sincerely love to hear about it.

Opinion has absolutely nothing to do with it, as opinions about the origin of the universe have no merit and no educational value.  We don't learn anything by perpetuating made up idea about thing we know nothing about.