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Thread #131699   Message #3022013
Posted By: Mrrzy
02-Nov-10 - 05:46 PM
Thread Name: BS: The God Delusion 2010
Subject: RE: BS: The God Delusion 2010
Indeed, all us so-called "rational" atheists, those who see no rational reason for believing in deity, would certainly believe in deity were there any actual rational reason.
Nobody has seen deity, so there isn't even the eyewitness testimony that is so impossible to useas data anyway, once you understand perception and memory.
The finding that life began on this planet long before the planet finished forming is evidence for the likelihood of life on any "goldilocks" planet. Whether any of that life became macroscopic is doubtful, given how very little of ours has. Whether any of that macroscopic life developed intelligence is even more doubtful, given how very little has here.
But there are gazillions of planets. Gazillions of infinitesimal chances start to add up to pretty close to one...
So I would agree that there is much more evidence for life, even intelligent life, on other planets, than there is evidence for deity, since there hasn't been any of the latter yet. Not even probabilities...