zodiac10 Apr 2006

No, you can't disprove the God theory for anything. By that line of thinking, every reason for everything is challengeable (ie, you can rule out that wind knocked over the tree, that a bulldozer did, that poor soil quality did) except the reason "Because God did it." Why is that? Because you've defined God as "Unchallengeable Reason for Things".

What's more, it's not impossible to prove that a specific butterfly flapping its wings caused the wind. It's beyond our means to study right now, but each step in the process from butterfly to tree is very small and very basic. That's why the universe works. There is no process that means "butterfly flaps wings and knocks over tree", there are only the tiny, tiny processes of atoms bouncing off each other and so forth. Do not misunderstand: Someday it will definitely be proveable.

But all this is beside the point, because what I was really saying is you guys make a lot of silly jibes about me and can't understand what my position as an atheist really involves, choosing instead to talk about how I don't believe in reasons for things, while I can understand your positions just fine. And... well... it hurts, guys...