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Is everyone so depressed now partially because modern science has probably proven there is no god / afterlife?
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Didn't disprove, just made clear that the odds are inconceivably low.
I’m not religious, but I want to add that the chance of us existing right now are inconceivably low so that’s not really an argument against God.
You don't understand statistics. It's the opposite. The odds of life not existing in a universe this incomprehensibly large are infinitesimally small.
It would be far more notable if 4+billion years of this shit and none of the literally countless planets (in our galaxy alone.) capable of hosting life contained life.
No, science simply doesn't (and can't) provide any answers or odds for or against god.
God by definition isn't subject to the laws of nature, and all science does is observe nature and come up with theories that fit the observation.
It's statistics, not science.
But it's pretty clear you have a tenuous grasp on both, at best.
OK, what numbers go into those statistics? How do you calculate the odds of god existing? Should be precise, since it's math.
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please show your work
I was just being goofy there, bud. I don't think the possibility is zero, just very very low. And let's remember that the onus is not on me to disprove anything. That is not how logic or epistemology works. I'm not the one making the extraordinary claim here...
Frankly, if I'm being honest, I just don't feel like having this type of conversation right now. I don't believe there is anything either of us could say that would change the others' mind, and I would rather enjoy my Sunday (a day that became far more enjoyable when I left Christianity and reclaimed the day for myself).