JJ disproves the existence of God

[joggerjayne]

Part 1.

From my balcony, with a stick, I could throw a lacrosse ball on to the beach. From this height, it would make a random pattern in the pebbles.

Primitive civilizations would have called this pattern ... "Creation".

As the tide came in, it would randomly change the pattern.

Primitive civilizations would have called this NEW pattern ... "God's Great Scheme".

Part 2.

Now, let's say I wanted to try to reproduce "God's Great Scheme".

I would find it impossible to throw another ball, and recreate the same pattern.

Why?

Primitive civilizations would say that it was impossible to reproduce something which could only have been created by a "Divine Creator" (ie. me, on my balcony).

Other people might say that the primitive tribes are confusing the principles of "cause and effect".

Part 3.

If someone a long way away (say, Blackpool) threw a lacrosse ball onto their own beach, the resulting pattern would be similar in some way, but different in many ways.

Primitive civilizations would have called the Blackpool pattern ... an "alien civilization".

Part 4.

Now, are these two patterns in the sand, which are impossible to reproduce, evidence of the existence of God?

If the pattern had been a bit different, would Primitive civilizations have said ... "God got it wrong?"

Or would Primitive civilizations have looked at the other random result, and said that that was ALSO proof of "God's Great Scheme"?

Or is it proof of one thing only ...

Provided you don't have to predict the outcome in advance ... no matter what the outcome is, you can look at it and say ... "This is what God intended"?

Now, hang on a minute ... I have to go and retrieve my lacrosse ball.

[redman41]

"And God said, ""Let there be light"", and there was light.
And everyone said, ""Hey, cool,we like light Ale"

[naomi24]

Craft, read the gospels, my child. You will find lacrosse in there. (With hands poised piously for prayer, Naomi nods sagely).

[craft1948]

lol naomi I've read the gospels many times..............found ping pong but no lacrosse :-)

[naomi24]

Coo, I didn't know ping pong was in the bible. I thought he was a Chinese waiter out of one of those old sketches. Amazing where these writers get their ideas! ;o)

[vulcan]

would you find lacrosse in a French bible ?

[mibn2cweus]

Lacrosse . . . isn't that what our dear saviour died on?

[naomi24]

That's why I told Craft to look in the gospels! French could work too.

[jno]

lacrosse was a Scandinavian game, taken to America by the Vikings. Bill Bryson discusses it in one of his books.

[boxtops]

JJ - only you would have handy a lacrosse ball..... ;-)

[jno]

perhaps they're going to include beach lacrosse in the Olympics? Maybe even synchronised beach lacrosse; that'd be pretty.