God is real

1. It's not that the Earth 'fell into place. ' There are thousands of habitable worlds throughout the observable universe. Untold numbers. Every star you see in the sky could easily have planets in the habitable zone. It's nearly impossible for life to not exist somewhere else in our galaxy, Much less the universe. We have several other planets in our solar system. We weren't born on Mercury or Mars simply because we couldn't have been born there. Life can spring forth from planets that were formed in the habitable zone. Millions of miles is a small number in terms of solar systems, But planets being fomed in the habitable zone is not a special occurrence in the universe, Nor even terribly unlikely. 2. The axial tilt of the planet is also not that uncommon. 3 or 4 other planets in our solar system have similar axial tilts. On top of that you say it yourself: If the Earth had no axial tilt we still would have habitable areas on the planet. I'm not sure what you're going for here. Humans were not designed to live on the poles. All the tilt does is expand the habitable area on our planet. There is no evidence that you can give that were we to be born on a planet with no axial tilt we wouldn't have armored skin or be able to endure the heat. Certainly, If God existed he could make it so, And we would say that we were a superior creation to what we are now. None of this is evidence for God. It is just another fact of life, If not an argument against its existence. We could just as easily have lived on a planet where 80% of it was not habitable and you'd use a similar argument. "Thank God 20% of our planet is habitable. " We can't live on the water Oceans are 70% of the area of the Earth. The poles are not easily habitable. You can say about 75% of the total area of the earth is unlivable. I have no idea why you feel this is also a point in God's favor. Why did he not allow us to breathe underwater? Why not enable us to live in cold or hot environments? Why breathe at all? 3. Earth's size is also nothing special in the universe. We can include it as a factor if it really is true that it HAS to be within a certain range of sizes to have our atmosphere, But life can exist in more forms than we know. Many creatures don't require the atmosphere we have to live. You have no way of showing life doesn't exist in many other forms. There are theoretical silicone based lifeforms that would need entirely different atmospheres. Humans began to exist on this rock. That doesn't mean this rock was tailored to our needs. It means that those creatures that were born not suited to live here died. Think of the hundreds of malformed children that are born without the structures required to live. They die. There is nothing to prove that the world was created for us. There is every evidence in fossil records to show that we created our structures to suit our environments. Everything that was necessary for life to exist can be found elsewhere in the universe. That we happened to be born here is not some sort of miracle or proof for a God. It is proof that where the conditions are right for life to spring forth, It will. Nothing guaranteed that we would be here. If the dinosaurs had not gone extinct we likely would not be. None of this is proof for a God, Much less the one you profess to exist. There is no talk about axial tilts in the Bible. There is no talk about God placing the sun in just the right spot for life to exist. There is no talk about God sizing the earth properly. Are you saying God could not possibly create life on a larger planet with no axial tilt and not in the habitable zone? Of course he could. These arguments do nothing to prove your point. They only reinforce my own position. 4. 90% of the top scientists in the world don't believe in a deity of any sort. About 10% do. Do we really want to get in a quote war over this? If we're taking the opinion of top scientists then I can have 9 for every 1 you produce. There's a pretty good chance that 10% don't even agree with your god in the first place. 5. Again, If Adam and Eve didn't have "knowledge" already they could not have known that eating from the Apple was bad. God could have prevented this easily. God knew the snake existed. How did he expect Eve to know any better with no knowledge? It's a ridiculous stance to take that someone who could not possibly know better should be expected to know better and that not only her but ALL of humanity after her should be punished for it. After that, Jesus supposedly died for our sins, Yet the perfect DNA you have no evidence for has not sprung back into life magically afterwards. It is odd, Is it not? There can be as many harmful mutations as you'd like. There are tons. People die of cancer all over the place. Anemia is common, Et cetera. Children die of terminal defects all the time. This is where mutations that are harmful enough die off. Many beneficial mutations die off because the same person has mutations that are 'bad' enough to get them killed, Or they're just unlucky. We're talking about hundreds of millions of years of where those with bad mutations are likely to die and those with good mutations are likely to live. You keep pointing to the evidence for evolution and calling it evidence against it. I can't say I understand the viewpoint. Evolution isn't even something that disproves your God. All you have to say is that God started it. 6. You're linking me a quote from a creationist article saying there is a problem with fossils? You really ought to study sources from both sides. I have read much of answers in genesis. I have seen Ken Ham debate and I have seen Richard Dawkins debate. There are numerous transitional forms of fossils. A plethora. An abundance. I encourage you to look up the evidence for yourself. Homo erectus, Neanderthals, Etc up to homo sapiens. The transitional forms not existing is a lie cooked up by creationists. I'd need a more specific claim to be able to point to exact fossils certainly. But even the fossils we do have, If your point were entirely true, Show that humanity has improved over time, Not devolved. In reality, The position that you've taken is "De-Evolution. " You're saying that the further we get from Adam and Eve the more we devolve. You have zero evidence for this, Compared to the clear fossil record that shows improvements. 7. It's cool that you don't believe we can repair our bodies, But lifespans have clearly been extending as medical science improves. Life expectancy largely has increased due to it, But that is a bit of a different matter. There is nothing you can point to to show we won't be able to repair our bodies. You don't seem to have a clear understanding of how people die of "old age" currently. 8. Prayer doesn't work. Look up "efficacy of prayer" and "studies on intercessory prayer" on wikipedia. It has effectively been disproven that prayer works. Again, I note that you failed to respond to my question of why doesn't your church publish the results of this miracle? I submit because there was none. That is the only logical explanation. Why keep the proof of miracles all to yourself? 9. People give God all the credit for good things that happen to them and none of the blame for the bad things that happen to them. They tend to blame "the devil, " which is also God's creation that he could stop at any time, Or they do what you did and say there's a reason they're being punished, Or that what is happening is good for them. This keeps women in abusive homes. It is abhorrent. To conclude, You don't know why God allows terrible things to occur. You don't know the justifications for him allowing evil. You don't know why he created evil in the first place. You don't assign him blame for all the terrible occurrences, But all the credit for the good. Your entire argument is and has been a faith position. If only we would accept that there is a God we would believe in him. Faith is no virtue. -Thoht