Hangdawg preacheth,
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If you start with the premise that God exists as the creator, and then decide that you want to know him, everything else falls into place. Everything makes sense. Everything has a reason and purpose. Without God, things just don't click with reality as they should.
This is exactly what Sidelined is questioning. Does everything makes sense, or have you decided that God's work doesn't have to make sense to you? Can you truly grasp the reason and purpose of the universe, or are you just using the term "God" to fill in for the real explanation?
I assume you weren't kidding when you mentioned the way the universe seems to have been created just right for us to live and experience God. If there's no evidence for an infinite amount of universes, how do you know what a universe that's
not designed for us would have looked? I mean, what about all the God-worshippers that could have lived on the moon, or Mars, or all the other planets? Wouldn't it be at least a better argument for the designed-universe if God-worshipping life had emerged in it quicker than some 15 billion years after it was created?
I think Sidelined's questions are valid: how are believers so sure they're not just seeing whatever they want to see, and how much critical thinking is going out the window in the process?
regards,
Esteban Hambre
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