Posted: Dec 22, 2018 3:15 am
scherado wrote:Hermit wrote:Nobody has managed to explain to me by what criterion we can determine the point at which something becomes so unlikely that it could not possibly have occurred without the intercession of a supernatural entity. Until then an (un)likelihood, no matter how great or small the odds, will always remain just that - an (un)likelihood.
There is a name for the error one makes when thinking otherwise: Divine fallacy. It's also known, somewhat ironically, as the argument from incredulity. "X must be the result of superior, divine, alien or supernatural cause because it is unimaginable for it not to be so." Theists usually resort to it in conjunction with the fine-tuned universe.
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Not so fast, oh So Secluded One: If you actually understand the several requirements for this event to have occurred, then how could you NOT be at a loss to explain? Please read this response.
Your reply read thus: "It couldn't have happened, because it's not possible."
You totally misread my post. Putting my reply in other words, it reads: No matter how high or low the odds of an event occurring, I see nothing that turns an unlikelihood into an impossibility. Or in yet other words: As odds increase, the likelihood of an event occurring decreases. It keeps approaching zero, but never quite gets there while those odds are calculable.
So, my reply is the opposite of how you read it.
scherado wrote:Are you an Atheist?
Yes.