god's Farcical Role as 'Explanation'
One of the most common
"arguments" that I, as an atheist, hear regarding god's alleged
necessity is that, given the incredible complexity (or beauty, or wonder, or
intricacy) of certain components of the natural order (i.e., the human eye, the bacterial flagellar motor, the human
brain), the only possible explanation for the existence of such complexity is
an intelligent designer, which is then read as god. The ludicrousness of this argument
cannot be overstated. It is pure farce to point to something like the human eye
or the bacterial flagellar motor—much less, with respect to the origins of life, an ultimately simple single-celled organism—and "explain" its existence,
as Christians feebly attempt, by citing an omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent
deity whose nature defines good and evil, who developed an infallible plan in
which every one of us plays a part, who is concerned with and monitors our
behavior, who reigns over heaven, who listens to and occasionally answers
prayers that are transmitted by hushed murmuring, and who sent a son—with whom
he exists as part of a mysterious trinity—to die for humanity's sins, after which he
resurrected his son bodily. To call this monstrosity—this haphazardly stapled-on
appendage—an "explanation" is to make oneself appear to be a fool.


5 Comments:
Are you sure about that?
Yes.
Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.
Then either god does not embody "quality," or god was skillfully crafted. And, of course, god's hypothetical skillful crafter must, himself, have been skillfully crafted.
And, yes, if we are talking about the emergence of living matter from non-living matter, I maintain that the Christian god is a farcical "explanation."
Ultimately simple single-celled life cannot be "explained" by citing an omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent deity whose nature defines good and evil, who developed an infallible plan in which every one of us plays a part, who is concerned with and monitors our behavior, who reigns over heaven, who listens to and occasionally answers prayers that are transmitted by hushed murmuring, and who sent a son--with whom he exists as part of a mysterious trinity--to die for humanity's sins, after which he resurrected his son bodily.
God's quality is a (wise) choice, not the result of 'accident'. Yes.
So, then, it's within god's nature to be a real sonofabitch, yet he makes the intentional choice to embody quality instead?
Then tell the doctors and the hundred tumors in my body that your god made my DNA quality, that I don't have a genetic mutation that is going to kill me, and that I am going to continue to propagate our species with quality offspring. And don't try to tell me your god has a plan for me and that's why he did it. I will just refer you to the fallacy of petitio principii. Logic never fails.
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