Get Real! wrote:Tim Drayton wrote:Get Real! wrote:Atheist wrote:Fortunately for the church most people are like you and believe in things without any good evidence.
Evidence of the existence of God just doesn’t get any bigger or any more spectacular than the universe but you’d have to have an equally large and spectacular stupidity to not see it!
How is the universe evidence for the existence of God? It isn't.
Whatever combination of matter, energy, ingredients, and reactions formed the universe.... that's GOD!
You can call it the
supra-cosmic-genesis-reaction to sound cool and I just call it GOD.
Same thing… different labels.
And what makes you think that this "combination of matter, energy, ingredients, and reactions" is something conscious that also gives a fuck about you? What guides your beliefs is always the same: Wishful thinking.
In order to fulfill your wishful thinking a series of baseless assumptions need to be made:
Baseless assumption 1: There is a creator of the universe
Baseless assumption 2: That creator cares about you (to use your ant example: that "invisible to the ants" human deeply cares about the ants)
Baseless assumption 3: That creator is able to offer to you eternity (to use your ant example: that "invisible to the ants" human can make ants immortal)
So in order to fulfill your psychological needs you need to make a baseless assumption on top of a baseless assumption on top of a baseless assumption!