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I wrote this myself more so to emphasize the absurdity of denying a creator on the basis that the universe can be explained. The universe itself can be the circumstantial evidence there is a God, there never has to be a watch maker found for the watch itself to be sufficient evidence such a man existed.
And I use the grain of sand as the counter-part to the watch because in the religious debate we often perceive the heavens as too remarkable often forgetting the fact that a single grain of sand itself is amazing.
It stems from an argument I once had with a man over the equation 2+2=4.
He argued that this is a human invention and not "truth" that there is no truth in philosophical sense. I argued that no matter what you do you cannot claim that 2+2=4 is false. He then proceeded to claim that we merely define it as 2+2=4.
So I stated that even if you said 1+1=5 (in our words) if you still have .. of something and .. of something else it equals .... of that something.
.. + .. = ....
He continued to refuse it on the basis that we apply definitions to those things ... units...
To which I said "you are simply asking for more evidence than there is".
Coming from an atheistic background (I was from about the age of 10 to the age of 18 a self-proclaimed Atheist who over those years became more and more defensive of the idea of Atheism) it was an epiphany that would later be incorporated into my rediscovering faith.
All Atheists are asking for more evidence than there is - and all Atheists are just as absurd as the man who rejects the idea that 2+2=4.
This doesn't mean I know what religion is right, but as the movie Dogma concludes "it's not about which faith is right just that you have faith".
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