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WolfishMusings
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If it would survive all that, for a very long time, you wouldn’t be able to intellectually call it chance. The odds of the WTC surviving all this, are greater than were our chances of survival throughout.

Now you’re the one guilty of a false analogy.

The World Trade Center is in one place and therefore you only have to go to one place to destroy it. The Jewish people are not in one place. Had Hitler conquered all of Europe, he could not have succeeded in wiping out the Jews.

The World Trade Center cannot defend itself or run away. People can.

The World Trade Center cannot learn from previous attacks. People can.

But you’re still engaging in the Sharpshooter’s fallacy by stating that it is proof that God exists. By the same token, every single person on earth can make the same claim — after all, the odds of any one of the seven billion plus of us actually existing is infinitesimal — if any of our ancestors didn’t meet at the proper time, if any of the other of billions of sperm fertilized the eggs at *any* of those meetings, if any accident occurred to any of our ancestors before they had a chance to have kids, if any disease or accident might have sterilized them before they had children, and on and on. The odds against *you* existing are so remote that they are practically incalculable — and yet here you are. You may ascribe it to God — as do I. But that’s not proof, because anyone else can turn it around and attribute it to his or her deity.

The Wolf

The Wolf