Owh, the famous everything works so it must be the work of a higher power argument. That only works for people with limited math and abstraction skills.
You see: imagine all sorts of realities. Now your statement is: 'there must be a god, because the world works&a working world is a very rare thing'. Now indeed, for all things to work together like they do is very special indeed. So indeed given a unlimited number of universes the chance for life would probably be 0%.(Please remember this can be a value in the 0-1.49999... range, but tbh the value doesn't matter.)
The problem with your statement is, it can only be given if life exists. (I hope I don't have to explain that 'you' need to exist, or at least sentient life needs to exist before anyone/thing can think/make a statement like that.)
That changes the statement to: 'if life exists then -> there must be a god, because the world works&a working world is a very rare thing'. But wait a moment, we now do not have a 0%(hypothetical, again value doesn't matter) that the universe works, because we only take in account realities that fit the 'if', so realities with life. Now guess what, all worlds(100%, this time exact value) with life work!
So what you are saying is: 'there must be a god, because there is only a 100% chance our world would work'.
Wait:/ 100% That's not unique, that's a certainty! So your statement doesn't make sense at all. And you only needed a functioning brain to see the fault in your logic. Imagine that.
And that's kind of the problem. When things happen in life or you wonder how stuff works, you can ofcourse just say: 'god made it, don't think', but I prefer actually thinking.
(Disclaimer: I made some shortcuts, because I didn't want the rant to become too long, feel free to ask for a longer version.)
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Owh, the famous everything works so it must be the work of a higher power argument. That only works for people with limited math and abstraction skills.
You see: imagine all sorts of realities. Now your statement is: 'there must be a god, because the world works&a working world is a very rare thing'. Now indeed, for all things to work together like they do is very special indeed. So indeed given a unlimited number of universes the chance for life would probably be 0%.(Please remember this can be a value in the 0-1.49999... range, but tbh the value doesn't matter.)
The problem with your statement is, it can only be given if life exists. (I hope I don't have to explain that 'you' need to exist, or at least sentient life needs to exist before anyone/thing can think/make a statement like that.)
That changes the statement to: 'if life exists then -> there must be a god, because the world works&a working world is a very rare thing'. But wait a moment, we now do not have a 0%(hypothetical, again value doesn't matter) that the universe works, because we only take in account realities that fit the 'if', so realities with life. Now guess what, all worlds(100%, this time exact value) with life work!
So what you are saying is: 'there must be a god, because there is only a 100% chance our world would work'.
Wait:/ 100% That's not unique, that's a certainty! So your statement doesn't make sense at all. And you only needed a functioning brain to see the fault in your logic. Imagine that.
And that's kind of the problem. When things happen in life or you wonder how stuff works, you can ofcourse just say: 'god made it, don't think', but I prefer actually thinking.
(Disclaimer: I made some shortcuts, because I didn't want the rant to become too long, feel free to ask for a longer version.)
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