If there is no God, then why does it look like there is?

Question

Think about it. Everything in nature is perfectly designed. Just look at the Earth. If it were too far away from the Sun, we would freeze to death. If it were too close, we would all life would be destroyed by the heat. This can't be a coincidence.

Here's another proof:

Look at the moon. If it were too close, it would crash into the Earth and if it were too far away, it wouldn't orbit around the Earth. The moon is perfectly designed to keep asteroids from hitting the Earth.

All of this proves there is a God.

There are too many coincidences. Do you agree?

Answer 1

what you put forth proves nothing but the fact that you know nothing about causal relationships. The Earth is in a habitable distance from the sun and the sun is a habitable star (type G). None of those facts prove or disprove the existence of God.
If we were too close, or too far from the sun we would either burn up or freeze. None of those facts prove or disprove the existence of God.
Look at the moon. If it were too close, it would crash into the Earth and if it were too far away, it wouldn't orbit around the Earth. The moon is perfectly designed to keep asteroids from hitting the Earth. None of those facts prove or disprove the existence of God. And yes, the moon does not prevent meteors from hitting Earth. What do you think that the moon acts like a hockey goalie?
Oh yea, coincidences are not proof of anything. That is why they are called COINCIDENCES!

Answer 2

Just because it looks like it is designed it doesn't mean it is designed. As a matter of fact it is not designed it has slowly evolved for billions of years. By the way the moon does not protect us from asteroids. The earth is by far more massive than the moon and therefore would attract the asteroids better than the moon. The best protection we have up to now against asteroids is Jupiter and the other giants out there,
Actually the moon stop the earth from wobbling too much on its axis.
Anyway this here section is not for religious questions. God does not live here.

Answer 3

No. I do not agree. There are never too many coincidences. If the earth were too far away from the sun, there would be no us to marvel at the amazing nature of our existence. Same if we were too close to the sun; too hot, no us.

The moon is not perfectly designed to keep asteroids from hitting the earth. Asteroids have hit earth plenty of times in the past and will continue to do so in the future. In fact I'd say that the moon helps earth more by regulating its axial tilt and all that good stuff. But it's still just coincidence. If it were not so, we would not be here to marvel at it. It's called the anthropic principle.

Answer 4

I hate to break it to you but the Earth is not perfectly designed for human occupation.... Plate tectonics alone account for untold misery and human suffering, then there are hurricanes, tsunamis, floods, droughts, tornados, etc. etc.

Have you ever heard of the anthropic principle?

Its complicated, but essentially it states that if things (the important things) were any different, then none of us would be alive to debate it in the first place. This explains away all your 'coinidences' as being the only path that could have led us to this point. Think about that...

People all aver the world and all throughout history believe(d) in lots and lots of different Gods because life is tough and then you die. Nobody with a brain wants to believe that their existence is fleeting. God is a comfort thought... people believe in them to make themselves feel better about their own mortality. Nothing in the observable universe even suggests, much less proves to me that there is a God or Gods that control anything. We are on our own here, and the sooner all mankind comes to the same conclusion, the sooner we will stop murdering each other over religious differences and start working together to get off this rock and spread ourselves throughout the galaxy before some big ol' asteroid comes along and wipes us all out (don't count on the Moon for protection). The continued belief in Gods is holding mankind back from living up to his true potential. I'm sorry if you find this disheartening but if you really stop to think about it you will find my logic inescapable.

Answer 5

None of these things is a proof, or even evidence. There are a billion trillion stars in the universe, and it is hardly surprising that at lease one of these wound up with a system that would support life: the requirements are not overly severe. The moon has no influence on whether asteroids strike the earth; in fact, some have. You need to learn to distinguish between evidence and proof: evidence suggests that something happens or happened; proof says that there is no alternative. It is obvious that the scientific theories are at least credible atternatives.

The real problem with supposing some sort of divine intervention is not that that theory is wrong: it is that it is provably useless. No irrefutable theory can make any predictions about anything, and it is obvious that there is no possible refutation of a claim that god did it. Scientists do not like to waste time contemplating useless theories.

Answer 6

Okay,that was half-witted. First the church does not ackowledge the existence of dinosaurs and has trouble with any findings older than 10,000 years. Second; the moon has, infact crashed into the earth(earth isn't capitalized, by the way, never was), as far as your perfect design; child molesters, a.i.d.s., New Orleans, the fact that the Christian savior had to be brought about, asteroids do hit the earth by the way, have and will and finally the Bible, that book has more holes than a holy swiss cheese. But hey, have faith!

Answer 7

It does not look as though there is a god.

In fact, if you directly look for evidence it is astonishingly hard to find a single piece that stands up to even cursory scrutiny. Coincidences do not constitute proof or evidence.

Your argument in particular is tortuous and circular. You cannot be here to make these comments unless all of these things happen to coincide, and in an almost limitless universe they are likely to somewhere. Looking from the alternative perspective, life fails to exist almost everywhere in the universe, which would make your god pretty much a failure.

On the balance of scientific evidence there is no god.

And on the basis of human evidence lets hope there is not, because his followers consistently turn out to be the most vile people on earth carrying out wars, atrocities, bigotry and the like.

Answer 8

Do you have any idea how long this universe has existed? How many billions of planets have surrounded the stars in any given galaxy? What if our sun used to be hotter and earth was uninhabitable, but say mars was? Stars do decrease in temperature during their lifespan, and they "live" for over 10 billion years. It takes few hundred million years for life to evolve on a planet. Which gives a very large window for a humanity to appear, somewhere...And what if some civilisations develop the
ability to travel to other solar systems? What if they could use their technology to accelerate the evolution of life on other planets?

Answer 9

wrong, there are billions and billions of stars and planets in the universe, the odds were that one planet would be just right for life. also there are plenty of moons to other planets that just happen to shield them from asteriods, its not a very uncommen phenomena in the universe.
secondly if god created the earth for human life then why did he create the rest of the universe, and as the sun gets hotter the earth will become too hot for life

Answer 10

no, I like your logic,I agree its amazing and beautifull, im glad to hear someone that isnt saying god is real it says so in the bible but it doesnt PROVE there is a god. coinicidences they may be, what are the chances of any star having a planet at the correct distance and having an atmosphere conducive to naturaly supporting life? now consider how many stars there are with planets orbiting them...some of them are bound to be correct and have life of some sort...also most of the planets in our solar system have moons, many more than one moon... also the distances dont have to be perfect, the earths orbit around the sun is elyptical not round we are allways becoming either closer or farther away...theres a pretty big buffer here as man can survive(in our societies current state) well below 0 degrees F and fairly well above 100 F... Im not saying wether or not god is or isnt real...just giving my opinion =)