u/RamJamR

Maybe it sounds like a silly question with an obvious answer up front, but is there any correlation between how built someome is and how much of a beating they can take from any angle of looking at the idea? We all know movies for one like to ham up the concept of the seemingly indestructible brutish huge guy, and it seems the snap judgement is that a big person must be tough, but just how much truth is there to this idea, if any at all?

Preaching (more like venting) to the choir here and maybe to religious lurkers, but I've gotten tired of the mentality that judges a lack of scientific empirical evidence towards a question to be an answer in itself that God exists. God of the gaps basically. In example, when someone survives some injury or some disease that it's judged they likely wouldn't survive but do, people immediately jump to saying God saved them because it's so surprising that they did and don't understand how. If we were to duplicate the exact situation and all the factors in it so that we could analyze it closely, we'd maybe understand why they survived when in past similar situations others did not.

We don't know how in exactness our universe exists, but not having a complete knowledge right NOW does not mean that there is no scientific and naturalistic explanation for how it does. It's arrogant to think that we must be sitting at the pinnacle of knowledge and thus if we can't explain something NOW it means that we never will and that divine magic must be the answer. Sometimes the most reasonable stance is to simply say "I don't know". We do have something of a decent picture already formed about how the universe exists even though it's incomplete. In light of that, it's far more rational to hold out for said naturalistic, scientific explanation than to just give up and say magic.