Asking of the Designer what we would of any other designer (The atheist delusion)

by David Turell , Saturday, July 30, 2011, 17:54 (4648 days ago) @ whateverist

I know that my grasp of chemistry is lacking but could we really be so far along in that field as to reasonably jump from "we don't yet understand the chemistry of abiogenesis" to "it just isn't impossible".-There are 60+ years of research into abio so far, and all we know so far is how it doesn't work. As I keep repeating: to jump from inorganic to biochemistry is enormous and by chance probably impossible. Robert Shapiro has proposed a reasonable inorganic cyclical start. That was 4-5 years ago, and as 'reasonable' has not been actually confirmed. The field is pretty stagnant at this point, after such a glowing hopeful start in the 1950's.
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> My grasp of mathematics is better but I don't see how it is possible to make any meaningful statistical analysis of a phenomenon for which we have exactly one data point, the earth. -Well, we don't know if there are Earths elsewhere, but this universe is set up for carbon-based life, and that kind only. Therefore the parameters we recognize on Earth can be used for a statistical analysis for probabilities.
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> I would like to know how we got here. It would be fascinating to find that out. But for me personally, not much rides on it. I'm content to assume there is a natural explanation for the natural world even before the details are completely understood.-That assumption required oodles and oodles of pure faith. Just as faith in a diety requires oodles and oodles.

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