Saw a few blog comments I wanted to reply to :)
Kristen: “Hey Alex, would you mind telling us what some of your favorite bands are? I know you love Green Day but that’s all I’ve heard you mention. I’m aways looking for new music and I have a feeling you’ve got great taste in bands.“
My top 3 favourite bands are Green Day, McFly and The Beatles. I used to include Linkin Park, Evanescence, Maroon 5 and My Chemical Romance in there, but sadly I don’t listen to them so much anymore, though I still rotate The Black Parade quite a lot on my iPod. To be honest though, most of the artists I listen to regularly are YouTube/unsigned acts: Greg Holden, Eddplant, Tom Milsom, Hank Green, Dr Noise, ALL CAPS, Raven Zoë, Blue Skies and Julia Nunes, and many others I haven’t mentioned for sake of space.
jennasie: “who is it that sings on your song hearts? im searching all over and cannot figure it out at all.“
Did you look on DFTBA.com? :p Hearts and Candy Floss both have Lex Croucher filling in on vocals.
Lauren: “I just don’t understand at all how anyone can see these things that you mentioned you were amazed at and not think, “wow, there MUST be someone or something planning all this” I mean, you mentioned things like the bicycle, and the computer. These things did not just come into existence on their own. They started with an idea from someone, and then they CREATED it. All these variables that work out just perfect are not some complete amazing accident. How could they possibly be?“
Well I tried to explain that, to me, it’s MORE amazing that they WEREN’T created. No, the bicycle didn’t come into existence on its own. But imagine IF IT HAD!
If you take the argument that the more complex something is, the less likely it is to have appeared from nowhere … what’s more complex than an all-powerful omnipresent supreme deity? Your argument actually makes it EVEN LESS LIKELY that God exists.
Also, I find religious people give too much credit to the world. You said “all these variables that work out just perfect are not some complete amazing accident” – we’re not perfect! Nowhere near! Example: people use the banana as proof of the existence of God, because it’s so ‘perfectly’ designed for humans to use: it fits nicely in the ridges of our hand; you open it like a ring pull; the food is ‘perfectly’ contained inside. Now, not having a go at the banana, but what about bruising? And have you TRIED peeling a banana lately? Sometimes they can be a right bitch to get into. And what about all the foods that AREN’T as easy to get through as the banana?
We WERE an ‘amazing accident’. If you bear in mind that things have been developing over millions and millions of years, on all the planets that could exist in the known universe … eventually, it’s not hard to imagine that one of them got it a bit right. On our planet alone, there are over a MILLION different species of animal, and we’re the only ones (arguably) that have real complex thought. Out of a MILLION species, we’re the only ones with complex thought; it MUST have been an accident, or there would be others like us.
The conditions just happened to be perfect. THAT’S why it’s amazing: because there was NO man behind the curtain pulling the strings. It happened all on its own.
I used to think alien life existed on other planets because the universe is huge, so huge that there must be something else out there somewhere; but that’s not true. The chances of US being here are so tiny, I doubt there could be anything else as well.
I don’t wanna turn this into the Alex Atheist Question Blog, so I’m not gonna keep responding to religious arguments or whatever; but that one comment seemed to have missed the point of my original entry, so I wanted to touch on it again.
(I finished that song “Together Tonight” by the way. I’m pleased with it, but now I have a song for my new album called Together Tonight and another called Tonight, so I need to fix that xD)
FANKS 4 REEDIN LOL
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