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The Michael Shermer Show · 2025-11-29 · 76 min · 11,897 words

Cosmology, Creation, and the Evidence for God

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The question of the existence of God and the question of the existence of the Martians more or less is the same question. Do the Martians exist? So, it is a question do some a person we cannot see exist or not. So Martian and God are the same question. When it comes to the origin of life, there are only two possibilities, creation or spontaneous generation.

There is no third way, and this we all agree. Spontaneous generation was disproved many years ago, but that leads us to only one other conclusion, that of supernatural creation. I cannot accept that on philosophical grounds. Therefore, I choose to believe the impossible that life arose spontaneously by chance. Can a democratic majority in your country pass a resolution say to gas Jewish people, reinstate slavery, euthanize old people?

Does it have the right? Yes or no? Probably you will say no, not even if the parliamentary vote is unanimous. You know, if you asked that question two centuries ago, almost everybody would say, yeah, slavery sounds good to me. Spain's industrial innovation and philanthropic investment in education.

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