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- American Atheists, Inc.
- www.atheists.org
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- We are here because one odd group of fish had a peculiar fin anatomy
that could transform into legs for terrestrial creatures; because comets
struck the earth and wiped out dinosaurs, thereby giving mammals a
chance not otherwise available (so thank your lucky stars in a literal
sense); because the earth never froze entirely during the ice age;
because a small and tenuous species, arising in Africa a quarter of a
million years ago, has managed, so far, to survive by hook and by crook.
We may yearn for a 'higher' answer—but none exists.
- Stephen Jay Gould
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- 1. Consistency
- Ž Do all the pieces
fit?
- 2. Completeness
- Ž Are any pieces
missing?
- Correspondence
- Ž Does the picture
make sense?
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- Credibility Tests:
- 1. Consistency
- Ž Do all the pieces
fit?
- 2. Completeness
- Ž Are any pieces
missing?
- 3. Correspondence
- Ž Does the picture
make sense?
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- The cosmological argument
- The anthropic argument
- The teleological argument
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- Whatever had a beginning had a cause
- The universe had a beginning
- Therefore the universe had a cause
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- “Astronomy leads us to an unique event, a universe which was created out
of nothing and delicately balanced to provide exactly the conditions
required to support life. In the absence of an absurdly-improbable
accident, the observations of modern science seem to suggest an
underlying, one might say, supernatural plan.”
- Arno Penzias
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- Parameter Precision
- Gravity 1 in 1040
- Electromagnetic Force 1 in 1040
- Strong Nuclear Force 1 in 1020
- Ratio of Strong Force
- to Electromagnetic Force 1 in
10100
- Ratio of Protons to Electrons 1 in 1036
- Initial Mass Density and
- Expansion Rate 1 in 1060
- And the list goes on....
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- A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a
superintellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and
biology.
- Sir Fred Hoyle
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- “There is for me powerful evidence that there is something going on
behind it all....It seems as though somebody has fine-tuned nature's
numbers to make the Universe....The impression of design is
overwhelming.”
- Paul Davies
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- Many factors of solar system enable life on earth
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- These dark plumes
where the comet fragments struck
are bigger than the Earth!
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- The Moon has slowed us,
kept us steady,
given us tides,
stabilized our orbit.
- Without it,
life could not exist.
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- “As we survey all the evidence, the thought insistently arises that some
supernatural agency – or, rather, Agency – must be involved. Is it possible that suddenly, without
intending to, we have stumbled upon scientific proof of the existence of
a Supreme Being? Was is God who
stepped in and so providentially crafted the cosmos for our benefit?”
- George Greenstein, Symbiotic Universe
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- Unraveling the facts of Life
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- 1 cell’s DNA = 1000 encyclopedia volumes
- ~ 6 billion bits of DNA in human genome
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- For more information,
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