A well ordered Universe.

[Sexton Blake]

Christians totally ignorant of science say that the fact that the Universe is well ordered is proof of God when the opposite is true.

 

If a God who can do anything made the Universe, why would it be so well ordered?

 

If God decides on Sunday that gravity is only half its usual pull, then it would be so. And if he decided that water boiled at 50C or 150C on certain days, then it would be so. And why not have angels flying about so we know he exists and so on? All would be proofs of God.

 

We live in a mundane Universe, controlled by gravity. Not by the whims of any imaginary god who first appeared some 3,000 years ago.

[pantheory]

Yup, the observable universe is fairly well ordered. On a much larger scale, we will in time be able to explain and understand the rules of its order IMHO.

 

"And why not have angels flying about so we know he (God) exists and so on? All would be proofs of God."

 

Yeah, why not ??? If there was a God who wanted us to believe in him, yours would be a very good plan

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your quote:

an....."imaginary God who first appeared some 3,000 years ago."

Below are a creationist quotes and link concerning the beginning of time, with my criticisms:

"From the Beginning of Creation to Adam: How Long?

How long was it from the first moment of creation to the creation of Adam? According to evolutionists, the big bang (when, they say, nothing suddenly became something) was about 13.8 billion years ago, and the first true man appeared ...... about 200,000 years ago."

https://answersingenesis.org/adam-and-eve/when-was-adam-created/

There are several obvious errors in the quote above. Many creationists throw the Big Bang event into evolution theory, when the theory of evolution is solely biological. Also, most anthropologists accept mankind as existing for millions of years rather than thousands of years, just different species of men. Above they use the words "true men" to refer to our species only. 

 

Another error is that only some cosmologists believe in the something-form-nothing scenario, most do not.

 

     

https://www.dreamstime.com/photos-images/neanderthal.html

"The Neanderthals have a long evolutionary history. The earliest known examples of Neanderthal-like fossils are around 430,000 years old. The best-known Neanderthals lived between about 130,000 and 40,000 years ago, after which all physical evidence of them vanishes."

According to "23 and Me" I have about 2% Neanderthal genes in my genetics, toward the high end of the whites spectra. About 3% maximum for whites and less than half of that maximum for blacks, while most sub-Saharan Africans have none -- with a maximum of about 7% Neanderthal genes for a small group of orientals.

Or the species Homoerectus, we have fossils going back about 2 million years found in South Africa. The most complete homoerectus skeleton was found in Turkey, which was determined to be about 1.5 million years old, called Turkana Boy.

     Here's a thinner depiction of the same skeleton 

The skeleton and reconstruction of it is called Turkana boy,  above left, by Mauricio Antón, This is maybe the most complete and famous Homoerectus skeleton.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_erectus#/media/File:Turkana_boy_by_Mauricio_Antón.jpg

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6 hours ago, pantheory said:

 

 

OMG!  That's my girlfriend from highschool!  

[Sexton Blake]

How can evolution be true when there are rocks smarter than some creationists?