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Thread #131699   Message #3022176
Posted By: Steve Shaw
02-Nov-10 - 09:39 PM
Thread Name: BS: The God Delusion 2010
Subject: RE: BS: The God Delusion 2010
"There is Zero actual evidence of life on other planets, No bones, no bodies, no radio waves. There is zero evidence of intelligent life on other planets, no bones, no bodies, no radio waves.

There is conjecture about all of those things. But there is also conjecture about God."
Indeed, no actual evidence. But you are being slightly disingenuous putting conjecture about those things on a parallel footing with conjecture about God. We live on a planet of a particular size a particular distance from a star, and there's life on it. We have already discovered 30 planets belonging to neighbouring stars that are in the ball-park as compared to the Earth in terms of size. Extrapolation from this suggests that there are probably several billion such planets in our galaxy alone (and tgere are billions of galaxies). Now that is not evidence of life beyond the Earth, but it does strongly point to the possibility, within all the laws of physics (a crucial point). I'd say it was almost worthy of a scientific theory. Now none of this applies to speculation about God. There is no evidence that he exists here or anywhere else so there is nothing to extrapolate from. There is certainly nothing in the laws of physics that points to him. There is no starting point at all (except for claims about answered prayers, tradition, ancient stories, God of the Gaps, etc.). Your attempt at comparision is bereft of all logic.