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That's kind of a bizarre way to put it. Science has very little to say about the probability of God. Science has removed some old proofs of God - the watchmak
by three14 17y ago
That's kind of a bizarre way to put it. Science has very little to say about the probability of God.
Science has removed some old proofs of God - the watchmaker proof in particular, by providing alternative explanations for the existence of life. Science itself has come almost nowhere towards placing a probability on the existence of life given the universe we live in, using only known physical processes.
It's completely plausible to say that, given a modern version of evolution, and all the time and planets and matter in the universe so far, the odds of creatures at least as intelligent as humans is one in a million. Or a trillion. Who could possibly know otherwise? There are, after all, thousands of unknowns in any such calculation.
If, in a few centuries, someone did accurately calculate that the odds were one in a trillion, would you say that science gave "a vanishingly small chance of a god existing?"
- trapper 17y ago"Science has removed some old proofs of God - the watchmaker proof in particular, by providing alternative explanations for the existence of life." Said more eloquently than I.