Sir Isaac Newton’s Model Solar System and God

Hmmm. Intelligent design.

Intelligent Design. A design in which earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, tornadoes, hurricanes, fires, plagues, etc., have killed millions? Billions? A design in which some animals must hunt, kill and consume other animals in order to survive? A design which has such wonders as children dying of cancer, all sorts of birth defects, and marvelous neuromuscular diseases that rob people of their very lives? A design in which you can die simply by falling from a standing position, or poke an eye out with a blunt object. A design in which, in order for you to be here, an uncountable number of everyone's ancestors (and their competitors) had to die through war, disease, wild animals, accidents - just for each of us to be here? A design in which volcanic eruptions and asteroid impacts cause mass extinctions?

Can you prove there is a creator? Just about every religion has a creation story with creators, some stories have borrowed from others. Amazingly, all of these creators are invisible and never show themselves. There are over 4,000 religions currently in existence that all have one thing in common - unproven, invisible, supernatural beings. Just because the origin of the universe is not fully understood, or may never be, is no reason to suggest that unproven, invisible, supernatural beings created it.

Disprove the biblical god? If I were to tell you a friend and I were walking in the forest one day and saw a small plant become covered in flames for an hour, yet the plant was not damaged and the ground remained cool to the touch, and my friend wrote what we experienced on a piece of paper as "proof," you could not prove that did not happen. You may choose to believe it did not happen, but you could not prove that it did not happen. And according to you, writing down something on a piece of paper is proof that it happened. Do you see how that thinking works?

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