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Originally Posted by jasonlfunk  If you were referring to me, everything you have quoted (which has been very little - you usually just state that it has been disproved without any evidence) has been about design which is irrelevant to causality.
And I'm sure that your statement that science and philosophy has come to the conclusion that there are millions of other places with life in the universe is quite wrong. The percentage of the universe that is habitable is very small, the the area of that which could have intelligent life is even smaller. |
Check out the Drake Equation, and don't forget to move beyond Wikipedia which is noted as being edited biasly. Specifically, Drake's own recent comments which suggest he thinks the numbers should be rather largely increased.
This estimates just within our galaxy how many civilizations have the ability to contact us, not just life. Multiply that by almost 100 for life in the galaxy, and by hundreds of millions for life in the universe.
I still don't understand how the "cosmological" argument leads to any reasonable conclusion involving God. Even if this argument is correct, which I don't believe it is, what leads that cause to be God? Why an entity at all? Could such a cause have any affect on the "effect" (our Universe)? If the Cosmological argument is the best for God, it seems to disprove an intervening God, which I imagine is your personal, eventual conclusion, and is one of my objections to this argument...