First Idiot

This is one of the links i mentioned in the first post.

As you can see she thinks she's making a good attempt at 'proving' the existence of God.  And even starts with a neat little intro explaining her goal.

Just once wouldn't you love for someone to simply show you the evidence for God's existence? No arm-twisting. No statements of, "You just have to believe." Well, here is an attempt to candidly offer some of the reasons which suggest that God exists.

But then she immediately goes on to give herself an out by saying that if you don't even entertain the posibility of their being a God then you will just rationalise away any evidence offered.  Ironically this is basically the same thing she is doing with this post but in the opposite direction.  She wants there to be a God so rationalises how any mundane thing is evidence of the great creator.

I'll do her first 'proof' today, which is this:

1. Does God exist? The complexity of our planet points to a deliberate Designer who not only created our universe, but sustains it today.

Then goes on to talk about the earths size, atmosphere, distance from the sun, and the fact that it has a stable orbit.

Marilyn Adamson.  You're wrong, fuck wit!

But maybe you don't realise that as you look at the 'miracle' of life from your position at the bottom of the well.  Obviously if there were only a handful of planets and solar systems in the universe it would be pretty fucking awesomely lucky that we got to live on this one but there aren't.  There are a shit load of planets and you clearly have no understanding of just how many there are or any concept of mathematic probability.

Take a look at the bigger picture.  This bigger picture right here is the Hubble Ultra Deep Field which is a photo taken of a dark part of the sky in the Fornax constellation.  This image:

This is just one-tenth of the diameter of the full Moon as viewed from Earth, smaller than a 1 mm by 1 mm square of paper held at 1 meter away, and equal to roughly one thirteen-millionth of the total area of the sky.  [my bolding]

And it contains an estimated 10,000 galaxies.  Let me say that again:  GALAXIES.  That puts an estimate for the total number of galaxies in the universe in the region of 100 - 200 and maybe up to 500 BILLION.  This is not a handfull.

So how many stars are there in a galaxy?  I'll let Universe Today answer that one.  That gives us a total number of between 100 and 300 sextillion stars.  How many!?  That's a 1 or a 3 followed by 23 zeros.

Incase you are a bit slow to pick up what i'm putting down here; stars aren't particularly scarce, nor are planets.  It's not a fucking miracle that we are here , it's a mathematical certainty.

Imagine these 100 sextillion stars for a moment.  Imagine, if you will, that only a meager 10% of them are the parents of their own planets.  Imagine that of those stars with planets that again, only a meager 10% has planets in this wonderous Goldilocks zone.  Now imagine that only 10% of these has a rocky surface and another 10% has water present.  Another 10% has the right gravity and another 10% have a 'breathable' atmosphere.  Imagine that only 10% of these planets even develops LIFE!

We still have a number with 16 zeros behind it.  That's a number describing planets in our universe which could support human life.  Now these numbers aren't ncessarily accurate and if you want to do the math yourself you can use the Drake Equation to do it but bear in mind that some of those fractions will be bigger than 10%, some much bigger.  I've been generous in pruning the numbers.

With that many planets which could potentially be our home then why would it be so miraculous that we have evolved on one of them?  In fact why wouldn't we have?  With such a huge number of planets to choose from why would we need one which had been specially designed?

In fact it's not even the planet which is designed to suit us but us who have evolved to suit the planet.  We've been here, our ancestors at least, evolving for 4 billion years and one of the results of evolution is that a species becomes BETTER adapted to it's environment.  Obviously after so long changing to suit our environment it's going to look like the planet is a perfect fit for us.  In reality, we are a perfect fit for the planet.

I'll address the water and brain/eye parts of that 'proof' later.

A fuckin' blog

"I'm not writing a fuckin' blog", i might have declared at sometime in the past.  I can't be sure i did actually say that but i think it's something i would have, or at least thought quite loudly.

Well, now i actually am writing a fuckin' blog.  Two infact, thanks to a little strangeness that happened when i was trying to create a single blog.  As it says at the end of the first post of my 'proper' blog, i was inspired to create one by a couple of other blogs i had been readin as 'research' for some programming i'm undertaking.

Long story short i created two blogs when intending to create only one.  When attempting to delete the extra one i got an error message saying the link was broken.  Which i thought was rather odd as this thing is run by Google and they seem to be pretty good at what they do, so good infact i would nominate them as a replacement for that out of date relic, God.  But that's for a different post.

Turns out it was just my laptop being a dick.  It's either got too many unwanted things running in it's registry or the cache has filled up again cause i haven't restarteed it since i started reading those FF blogs.  Wifes laptop to the rescue and i am now writing two blogs, one for the project and one because i didn't feel like killing the other after it had been so persistent in trying to 'live'.

So here we are (born to be kings) and i've decided to use this blog for 'everything else'.  Which will mostly be, as i've said in the all to brief description above, ranting about religious dooshbags but will probably include other random stuff i feel like writing about.

I'd briefly considered doing this sort of blog before but see the first line above.  But now it's here.  So why the main subject?  Obviously it's something i feel strongly about, if i was to choose something i didn't feel strongly about i wouldn't have much content.  (Though, i don't actually have any contect yet so this might be a big let down in the end).

I've got a friend who likes to send me links on facebook to blogs of creationists trying to defend their beliefs with their version of logic and evidence (which is to say, not the same logic or evidence used by the scientific method).  He does it to wind me up and it does work to a degree.  I've decided to use these other blogs as the starting point and work on from there.  I'll probably link a few of the better clips off Youtube too so i can cover a multi media angle.

So, thanks for reading.  Feel free to instruct me to burn in Hell if i've offended you.  I will sleep soundly in the knowledge hell doesn't actually exist, outside of the pizza place down the road and that town in Michigan.  (I'm totally going to Hell, Mi on my next holiday)