Re:Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time
by svieira on Monday March 29, 2021 @03:15PM
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When you say "which notably doesn't address the infinite regress issue" are you talking about what you said or what I did? (Just trying to understand if I wasn't clear enough in my explanations).
Re:Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time
by fossuser on Monday March 29, 2021 @03:48PM
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I think you clarified where the 'something can't come from nothing' argument originates from (and that it's separate from the watchmaker one).
My point was just that as an argument the answer being 'god' isn't very compelling when it then just moves the question to 'where did god come from', nothing is actually explained by this.
In my experience with religious people you get unsatisfactory answers to that, so adding massive complexity (god) as an answer doesn't really help when it can't answer the underlying question (it just introduces a new and more complex one). This is ignoring all the other problems with the god hypothesis which don't hold up either.
The watchmaker argument is more narrowly the creationist 'eye can't have just formed itself' argument (basically the eye must have been made by some sophisticated watchmaker: god).