Actually, there's more evidence for Santa Claus. Everyone's seen pictures of him or seen him in the mall, we know there's a North Pole, there are numerous consistent stories about him, and presents appear in stockings and under trees every year.
I disagree. I believe the things I listed, which certainly could be discussed in much more detail, speak strongly to a potential creator behind them than does the cultural Santa Clause.
But as I keep pointing out this thread is about KNOWING there is NOT a God not me proving there is.
The problem isn't the evidence, but the conclusions drawn from that evidence.
Conclusions are constantly being drawn on all sorts if issue from all sorts of evidence.
The universe is infinitely bigger than just this planet,
Of course. I never said that it was not.
and suffers from massive chaos.
In some cases yet it all works and functions in an incredibly orderly way as far as how galaxies and solar systems works and function.
In the vast majority of the universe, life is unsustainable.
So?
That there happens to be this particular planet that sustains it means this planet got lucky (so to speak - might be unlucky from a planet's point of view... if you think about it, we're all planetary parasites), given the billions of other planets that didn't get life
That is one theory. Of course we think but we do not know, that life is highly probable on other worlds in the Universe as well.
I'm not sure how you derive order and function from that model.
If you want to start a thread on that topic we can discuss it. That is not the topic of this thread.
And the fact that humans are self-aware enough to ask about god speaks more about the nature of our mental processes, specifically, our imagination as well as our desire to gain comfort where we can than it gives validity to the notion of a creator.
I disagree. I think it is built into us by God and gives potential validity to a God.