BTW, I wasn't feeling good today and it ends up I have tested positive for C19. So I might take it easy on the God debate. Just a low grade fever so I don't think it's too bad.
Here's hoping for your rapid recovery. I saw a statistic the other day that said 7 out of 10 people in the UK have had Covid. A very high number by any stretch.
Regarding the debate, I've seen virtually all the arguments for and against. To me, no one changes their mind. As to the weight of the evidence, from my perspective it is so far over to one side that only an apocalyptic event would convince me otherwise.
Small changes are just that. SMALL.
What do you get when you add a large number of small numbers together? A relatively large number. What happens when you add a large number of small changes together? Large change. If fruit flies can evolve different properties in 4 years, what changes can happen over a period of 480 million years when insects first appeared? Think about it.
However, if you believe the earth is 8,000 years old, then you won't buy into my argument above. Nor would I if that were true. Not enough time for enough change.
What I do take issue with is the idea that a fruit fly can somehow over time evolve into a human or any other completely different species.
The fruit fly comes from a different lineage than humans. However, using your own logic that small change can happen, and the self evident fact that small changes multiplied a very large number of times will lead to very large change, when a fruit fly has experienced this very large change, at what point is it no long a fruit fly and indeed a different species? Surely a continuation of change eventually results in something different. That is the only logical conclusion. (Spock)
What I'm saying is that the universe is not an accident.
Since we are locked into our own universe, as far as we are aware, some of these questions can never be answered. There may be infinite universes in some type of bubble membrane. Many theories, and like Plato, we can only speculate what is outside of the cave.
It is possible that there is a creator of our universe, like some massive SIM game, where an intelligence has created the rules of physics. You can call them God if you like. And in some respects, you can argue they are indeed the God of their own creation. In that case, I am the God of Access World. Hmmm, I quite like that!
In fact, come to think of it, if a creator is not verifiable because they are not intrinsically observable within our universe, they could indeed be the programmer that operates outside above the bubble membrane or in another dimension. That could coexist with the laws of physics as a possible hypothesis.
The SIM hypothesis is an increasingly common and quite plausible one, with many arguing the probability that we are in a SIM is near certain. It makes sense to me, although it feels hollow somehow, but I have no rational explanation for why it feels that way. If we are in a SIM, then indeed there is likely to be a creator of that SIM. If the probability that we are in a SIM is near certain, does that not mean the likelihood of a "God" is virtually certain? I can accept that argument. Did I just prove God exists?
SIM hypothesis:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation_hypothesis
So, I start off by disproving God. And now I end up proving God. It just shows how confused I am!
