If God can exist without a creator, why not everything else?
Boomers and their imaginary arguments
this post was submitted on 24 Nov 2023
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It’s easy just move the goal post and turn the apple into an orange and voila look at all these new points I just found
All right. They did evolve by chance, but not by snowflakes. They're part of a long chain reaction that eventually resulted in the evolution of human beings, who then gathered the snowflakes, and shaped them into balls, with sticks for arms and carrots for noses.
Now, how those snow-people are having a conversation is beyond me. As far as I know, inanimate objects don't speak intelligable words of their own volition. Yet. (A.I joke in there somewhere)
Snowmen are precursors to robots and genetically engineered intelligence.
Save, recompile and run.
Right? The format of the joke makes the argument highly ironic
Did you ever see a car assemble itself during a tornado? CAN A DOG PRODUCE A NON-DOG?!? Pinecones don’t make elephants!!
So they're saying their god is like a small child with nothing better to do on a snowy day, who will stop caring about you as you melt away into oblivion?
Because I'm not sure that's a very convincing argument in favor of their god.
It seems pretty accurate to the claims, though. Laryngeal nerve comes to mind.
It's one of the dumber arguments religious people make.
You realize what is created by a creator by contrasting it with what you see in nature. You know a watch is created, because nothing like it exists in nature nor can it reproduce on its own.
Humans on the other hand are just like any other of the billions of animals. We're not special.
And further to the point, imagine we were created and designed, what a shitty ass designer created us?? Short lifespan, useless at birth, susceptible to all kinds of diseases, weak unless in a group and our pleasure organs are mixed with our waste disposal organs.
If that's not the shittiest design I've ever seen, I don't know what is.
They think all of the billions of other animals were 'intelligently' designed as well. I remember Dawkins or someone had a whole rant on giraffes and the veins in their neck or something like that which makes no sense as an intentional design.
It was the laryngeal nerve. It travels down the neck to the arteries of the heart and back up to the larynx. It's ridiculous if you look at it from a design point of view, but makes perfect sense when viewed through the understanding of evolution.
But, hey, they made sure they didn't forget the built-in combat drugs so we're all much better at being nice to each other and shit ^(/s)
God was created by man.
Man made God in his image
And often with less effort than some snowmen took
There was a religious sect around the 3rd century CE that thought this in a literal sense.
That there was an original spontaneously existing man which in turn brought forth the creator of a copy of the earlier universe to which it was effectively God.
(No, this is not Gnosticism, even though it has similar elements and was at a similar time. In that belief system there's a Monad creator behind everything which created the forms being copied as well as the demiurge.)
It’s turtles all the way up
Let’s goooo Native American creation storiez
I don't think you're understanding the reference. It comes from Hindu creation mythology. But only out of convenience' sake.
Very relatedly, it's also contained in an anecdote Bertrand Russell reportedly experienced.
I like The Discworld interpretation. As Terry Pratchett notes, the Turtle is capable of swimming through the aether of space, hence doesn't need to be on anything.
I've heard it attributed to multiple people, going all the way back to Thomas Henry Huxley, so who knows?
I think the truth lies in the middle
https://ltbbodawa-nsn.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/The-Creation-Story-Turtle-Island.pdf
Edit: and here’s another for good measure
https://deadlystory.com/page/culture/articles/World_s_Indigenous_Peoples_Day/Turtle_Island