Secularists constantly bleat about God and the spiritual realm not being "observable or measurable" and faith being "illogical." A comment at a forum does a good job of replying to this:
Let's talk about "observable, measurable."
In Martin Rees' famous book he posits six numbers define the universe (the nuclear strong force, number of spatial dimensions, amount of material in the universe, etc.). Stephen Hawking said the odds of these six numbers combining they way they have is about 1 in 10^300. That's a one with 300 zeroes after it.
Let's put that another way. Say you are facing a firing squad of sharpshooters. The odds of one missing is 1:1,000. So the odds of two missing would be 1/1000 x 1/1000 or one in a million. You face ten sharpshooters. The odds of them all missing would be one quadrillionth of a quadrillionth.
They aim, fire and all miss. They aim, fire again and miss again. They miss a third time. A fourth time. In fact, they fire ten times each and miss each time.
At some point, the reasonable explanation is that this occurrence cannot be explained by stochastic probability; the game has to be rigged. Someone is slipping blanks in, or the sharpshooters are missing on purpose. But the outcome is so outlandish that the logical, reasonable explanation is that it is not left to random chance.
Now I ask you... based on that observable, measurable evidence, who is being logical and reasonable?
Let's talk about "observable, measurable."
In Martin Rees' famous book he posits six numbers define the universe (the nuclear strong force, number of spatial dimensions, amount of material in the universe, etc.). Stephen Hawking said the odds of these six numbers combining they way they have is about 1 in 10^300. That's a one with 300 zeroes after it.
Let's put that another way. Say you are facing a firing squad of sharpshooters. The odds of one missing is 1:1,000. So the odds of two missing would be 1/1000 x 1/1000 or one in a million. You face ten sharpshooters. The odds of them all missing would be one quadrillionth of a quadrillionth.
They aim, fire and all miss. They aim, fire again and miss again. They miss a third time. A fourth time. In fact, they fire ten times each and miss each time.
At some point, the reasonable explanation is that this occurrence cannot be explained by stochastic probability; the game has to be rigged. Someone is slipping blanks in, or the sharpshooters are missing on purpose. But the outcome is so outlandish that the logical, reasonable explanation is that it is not left to random chance.
Now I ask you... based on that observable, measurable evidence, who is being logical and reasonable?
