"Why didn't God stop the Black Plague?"
The magic god fairy isn't real. However, if I wanted to throw out all of reality and pretend the fairy is real, there is no reason the god thing would be interested in the lives of human apes on this insignificant planet in the middle of nowhere in a universe of countless trillions of solar systems.
"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."
-- Carl Sagan
Who are we?
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What someone else wrote:
"One will find that once they drop this God thing and realize things just happen because this planet only barely tolerates life and there's no reason for anything, things make much more sense."
What I wrote:
Well done. I would add this: When people realize humans are apes, then everything makes sense.
"Darwin was the first to use data from nature to convince people that evolution is true, and his idea of natural selection was truly novel. It testifies to his genius that the concept of natural theology, accepted by most educated Westerners before 1859, was vanquished within only a few years by a single five-hundred-page book. On the Origin of Species turned the mysteries of life's diversity from mythology into genuine science." -- Jerry Coyne
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
What I wrote about the magic god fairy.
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