Even if the Universe was created by an intelligent being that we could describe as God, why would he be considered with the planet Earth in particular, out of all of the billions of planets that exist?
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That just makes Earth more special. Earth appears to be the only place that contains beings who have awareness of the universe
>appears
Yeah and Earth appears flat from the ground using only your 5 senses alone and thus it was common belief for millennia but we know it was just our inability at the time to prove otherwise.
The Universe is extensively large, billions to trilions of galaxies with billions of stars with dozens of planets. We may not be able to see it due to our isolation but it is full of Life.
Proof?
While absence of evidence is not evidence of absence and all that, we don't have any proof anywhere but Earth has life. The anon you were replying to also made sure to specify "beings that have awareness of the universe", which we don't know of anything else even on our own life filled planet that has that.
Humans seem to be pretty special whether you like it or not anon, the only things on this planet we can engage in discussion about the nature of life, history or any other multitude are other humans, a dog cannot tell you the stories of his ancestors and a dolphin cannot talk about its personal philosophy.
The universe is a made up thing you were programmed to believe in by TV. There is the earth and then the heavens.
You sound like the type of guy who didn’t see the eclipse or care about it.
The sun and the moon are in the sky.
That's where all the people are Anon
Intelligence and consciousness are effects of cognition which is the processing of information into thoughts and such process necessitates a partially closed organized system to operate a flux which is motion thus occuring within space&time.
Thus God, if able of cognition, couldn't be above space&time.
And if otherwise wouldn't be conscious or intelligent.
Both attributes given to the Deistic God are thus proven incompabitible.
Forcing a cognitive God despite it losing its "necessity" claim of being "the first cause" would be nothing more than petty wishful thinking which Occam's Razor shaves away. And calling the first cause "God" despite it lacking intelligence would be silly and inappropriate.
Neither necessary nor possible, God is disproven.
Concession accepted
Welcome to the real world
Underrated. Consciousness is incompatible with space/time-less God.
incorrect
he just works in mysterious ways
> why would he be considered with the planet Earth in particular
He considers this planet as his foot stool. So - it's a shit planet full of shitheads - is my interpretation.
Big bang and all of it's aspects are foreign to the Bible so idk what is OP trying to say
Anything existing is inconsistent with atheism if it's complex. According to atheism, this just appeared by magical forces of nature without specific direction.
Because His israelites are here!
Because people live here who worship God and nobody is on Mars or Venus?
>Why did God do this? Why did God do that? Why is God like this? Why didn't God do that?
>why would he be considered with the planet Earth in particular, out of all of the billions of planets that exist?
I'm going to say the exact same thing I tell people who ask this about, "well why would aliens be interested in us?"
Sapience is probably spectacular and significant. The galaxy may very well be full of life (and if it isn't then this argument is significantly more valid), not just microorganisms & bacteria, but fish, plants, reptiles, amphibians, birds, and other mammals, but out of billions and trillions of life forms how many can honestly be ascribed sapience? Capable of creating culture, documenting history, or doing really anything interesting or self-aware not beheld to their own instincts?
The current estimate for species on Earth is 8.7 million kinds, which is probably a low estimate, and out of that nearly 9 million we've only ever observed 3 that resembled people: ourselves, denisovans, and neanderthals, and even they're very close relatives of us and/or sub-species at most. Sapience is explicitly particular and auspicious.
I also don't expect life to 'never not be interesting'. I don't think people really understand this, but living things organic systems are infinitely more complicated and intricate than inorganic purely chemical/physics based ones. Like, a literal worm and its' relationship and interactions with the environment are more complicated and information dense than say the orbit of the moon or how a gas giant 'functions'. T'were you to infinitely scale up your tools: you could replicate moons, meteors, black holes, suns, gas giants, but I'd expect it'd still be significantly more difficult to make a worm from scratch.