Why the Cosmological Argument Fails

[9-10ths_Penguin]

Thousands of scientists unable to replicate something after tens of thousands of trials = odds extremely low.

How many trials of some experiment without success would it take before we were justified in rejecting God?

BTW: exactly what experiments are you talking about?

We can add the odds for undisturbed pools of chemicals inside open systems and more...

We can find “undisturbed pools of chemicals inside open systems” today. What sort of “pools” do you think are so unlikely that we can reject them?

 

[Thermos aquaticus]

Thousands of scientists unable to replicate something after tens of thousands of trials = odds extremely low.

If I bought tens of thousands of lottery tickets and didn't win, would it be safe to conclude that winning the lottery is impossible?

 

[BilliardsBall]

If I bought tens of thousands of lottery tickets and didn't win, would it be safe to conclude that winning the lottery is impossible?

We are talking more on the scale of every atom in the universe being carbon, and interacting with every other atom every second, and 15 billion years not being enough for abiogenesis.

Or take for another example, the respiratory and circulatory systems evolving together. Do you want to compare that with 1.5 million:1 winning a small lottery? Really?!

 

[Thermos aquaticus]

We are talking more on the scale of every atom in the universe being carbon, and interacting with every other atom every second, and 15 billion years not being enough for abiogenesis.

Please show us the science behind this claim.

 

[Subduction Zone]

Please show us the science behind this claim.

It is easy to show. All one has to do is to assume that chemical reactions are totally random and do not follow any rules. There aren't any rules for chemical reactions, right?