And if those odds are small why would the odds of a functional god "just existing" for no external reason at all be any greater?
Please do not reply with logical fallacies.
2007-08-18 06:00:55 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Jacob: Really you think your god is simpler than a bacteria?
2007-08-18 06:07:49 · update #1
Suzy: As a mathematician I have a pretty good grasp of the infinite. It is gods that don't make sense.
2007-08-18 06:09:46 · update #2
Jacob I do think something exists without a cause, but something simple like mathematics, not an infinitely complex creator god.
2007-08-18 06:11:44 · update #3
Hasan suppose nothing is created, yet the universe is based on something timeless and simple.
http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0704/0704.0646v1.pdf
2007-08-18 06:22:18 · update #4
a trilion billion to 1
2007-08-18 06:05:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
The odds are 0. God, by definition, creates and is not created.
It is necessary to postulate the existence of a Begininglessly Eternal Creator because the universe itself is not begininglessly eternal, and therefore needs a Creator, seeing as it does exist.
Otherwise, if you want to propose that something non-begininglessly eternal created the universe you are left with a viscous infinite regress, as explained by Wikipedia: "an attempt to solve a problem which re-introduced the same problem in the proposed solution. If one continues along the same lines, the initial problem will recur infinitely and will never be solved."
2007-08-18 13:18:37 · answer #2 · answered by hasansonmez 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
probably slightly less than having a human or any other form of life be formed spontaneously out of an explosion! the fact that life exists and persists despite the odds is just one of many good reasons to acquiesce to at least the possibility of anything existing for no good external reason.
2007-08-18 13:04:53 · answer #3 · answered by Jacob R 1 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Pretty good, actually. I know for a fact that sometimes gods explode out of my butt hole because people usually say, "Oh, my god!" right after the explosion.
2007-08-19 15:28:29 · answer #4 · answered by Yinzer from Sixburgh 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
About the same as maggots spontaneously emerging from rotting meat.
2007-08-18 13:08:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Wow, That is exactly what happened. At least one person gets it.
2007-08-18 13:36:30 · answer #6 · answered by Tori M 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Nonsense question.
jtm
2007-08-18 13:05:41 · answer #7 · answered by Jesus M 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
God is the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end, He has no beginning and He has no end.
Pretty hard for your finite mind to grasp the infinite.
2007-08-18 13:05:00 · answer #8 · answered by Sweet Suzy 777! 7 · 0⤊ 6⤋
that would be interesting...
2007-08-18 13:18:43 · answer #9 · answered by Holly D 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋