How to decide is there a deity (Introduction)

by David Turell , Wednesday, January 07, 2009, 18:52 (5606 days ago) @ George Jelliss

I totally disagree with his point 2) Cosmology: He says; "what has been found is the universe is meticulously designed for life". I've been reading Paul Davies' book "The Goldilocks Enigma" (Penguin Books 2006) and this is what he claims. On the same evidence however I maintain that life is just an accident. Most of the universe is hostile to life. The Earth is indeed "extremely special", but by accident not design. (If I can find the time I will try to put together a complete critique of Davies' book, either here or on another site.) - I've not read Davies' book yet. It's on my list but I know the information he is covering. What fascinates about Davies is his gradual shift from non-committal theoretical cosmologic physicist in his early books and articles to apparently accepting deism as scientific evidence unfolds. - And that is what has happened to me. What I cannot escape is that DNA/RNA is a meticulously organized code. It carries enormous amounts of information. Does George really think that chance could have done that encoding. What is 'unfolding' is that junk DNA is really in large part organizational RNA that turns human DNA that was estimated to have 100,000 genes into 25,000 actual genes. This RNA carries contruction plans as well as maintaining energy and replacement functions. As science shows how complex life is, chance becomes less and less likely. 'Chance' as a faith requires looking at the mathematical probabilities. At some point chance disappears into infinity. This I believe is my major disagreement with George.