IMHO posted:
Scarne posted:
IMHO posted:
I will give you something to chew on, either everything is a coincidence or nothing is.
Everything is a coincidence. The human mind just loves pattern matching though so it draws connections out of things that aren't related.
A lot of what religious people say can't be coincidences requires God overriding the free will of someone else which is supposed to be a no-no.
There must be something to the pattern matching for it to not be washed out by evolution, kinda makes you think that those that don't use the pattern matching are handicapping themselves.
And yes, there IS something to pattern matching. Look at the people who try to find patterns in the gaming machines at casinos, try to mathematically predict all sorts of things in life such as weather, and so on.
Besides, a lack of patterns would require randomness. There is no truly random event; if you flip a coin, the instant you begin moving, the coin's final landing place is decided. It has a set amount of force lifting it, will encounter a set amount of wind resistance and crosswinds changing its velocity, and will hit a specific spot with a set amount of downward force, ending on a particular side. The only thing that makes it seem random is that you don't know all the forces well enough to predict its landing position beforehand.
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IMHO posted:
No, unless they are living with one in there home, it's still a belief.
You can not prove a Gorilla exists to me, you just believe it to be a fact or proof, just like I believe I have proof that God exists and I can never prove it to you.
Gorillas aren't a belief, they're a
fact, by definition. You can go find a gorilla, look at it and touch it, right now. Others have already done so. Your 'belief' or lack thereof in gorillas doesn't change that others are looking straight at one right this very second, or that they have a physical existence.
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