Well you've just committed the lottery fallacy. The idea is that this sequence of events is one that took place by chance. Now consider a lottery winner. With a single ticket, he had a 1 in over 1,000,000 chance of winning (assuming its a fairly standard lottery). Now, somebody had to win. In fact, it would have been stranger if somebody HADN'T won. Now suppose the lottery winner decided that because the chance of him winning was so low, yet he did, he must have won because of some sort of divine intervention.
Silly huh?
This occurs all the time. Stories about the downright unbelievable, such as a snowboarder getting caught in a massive avalanche and emerging from it at the end unburied and uninjured (which I saw the video footage of only a few days ago on the Discovery Channel), do emerge, but just because these incidents are so rare, its not to say that they are in any way due to "god".
As for you pin analogy, that doesn't work very well. You're comparing a theory that suggests change over billions of years, so something that you seem to be implying should happen quickly (instantly?).
Over the same time period of billions of years you'll find that this pin did happen to just occur, from humans creating it. Think OUTSIDE the square.
But in any case, I also think you'd find that given tens of billions of years, an object resembling a pin would emerge eventually.
Now as for "belief in "No God" also came from ignorance and blank thinking", well no.
If you bothered to research the arguments of atheists, you would find that many of our arguments of proof against god rely upon scientific evidence (which admittedly, as empirical evidence, has the capacity to be disproved, but this is what gives it credibility). On the other hand, virtually NO religions make statements which can be directly proven or dis-proven because of their vague nature. That alone ought to render most religious arguments completely invalid, because they tend to appeal to one possibility out of many (one specific god from many, or even no god) without solid justification for doing so (the circular reasoning of the bible does not count).
Cloverfield (2008; Holy crap, this was good. Would be a great double-header with The Host.); Communion (1989; Didn't work for me. Walken an odd choice, and it was more humorous than tense.); The 400 Blows (Criterion Spine #4) (1959; Truffaut's first feature; I'm looking forward to the Antoine Doinel followups.); Silent Rage (1982; Great beginning and Norris-appreciation, but slow and meandering ending.); Dakota Bound (2001; An actual plot, good cheesy action scenes, and lesbians. Amazingly good.);
Well you've just committed the lottery fallacy. The idea is that this sequence of events is one that took place by chance. Now consider a lottery winner. With a single ticket, he had a 1 in over 1,000,000 chance of winning (assuming its a fairly standard lottery). Now, somebody had to win. In fact, it would have been stranger if somebody HADN'T won. Now suppose the lottery winner decided that because the chance of him winning was so low, yet he did, he must have won because of some sort of divine intervention.
Silly huh?
This occurs all the time. Stories about the downright unbelievable, such as a snowboarder getting caught in a massive avalanche and emerging from it at the end unburied and uninjured (which I saw the video footage of only a few days ago on the Discovery Channel), do emerge, but just because these incidents are so rare, its not to say that they are in any way due to "god".
As for you pin analogy, that doesn't work very well. You're comparing a theory that suggests change over billions of years, so something that you seem to be implying should happen quickly (instantly?).
Over the same time period of billions of years you'll find that this pin did happen to just occur, from humans creating it. Think OUTSIDE the square.
But in any case, I also think you'd find that given tens of billions of years, an object resembling a pin would emerge eventually.
Now as for "belief in "No God" also came from ignorance and blank thinking", well no.
If you bothered to research the arguments of atheists, you would find that many of our arguments of proof against god rely upon scientific evidence (which admittedly, as empirical evidence, has the capacity to be disproved, but this is what gives it credibility). On the other hand, virtually NO religions make statements which can be directly proven or dis-proven because of their vague nature. That alone ought to render most religious arguments completely invalid, because they tend to appeal to one possibility out of many (one specific god from many, or even no god) without solid justification for doing so (the circular reasoning of the bible does not count).