A Scientists Approach to Creation (Origins)

by David Turell , Saturday, January 19, 2013, 20:39 (4325 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: Chance ends the debate. The universe is then a vast impersonal combination of mindless matter and energy, there is no purpose, and we are on our own.
> Nuff said?-Chance does not end the debate because of its open ended problems: Where did anything come from? How did life start? The complicated first cells are astronomically impossible to imagine as due to chance. The much simpler answer is there is a Designer.-
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> dhw: Re anthropomorphizing the First Cause: the moment you attribute purpose to his actions (as you have done with your insistence that man was the planned end product), you are anthropomorphizing him. And once you go down that line, I don't think it is humanly possible to stop yourself from wondering what that purpose might be.-By looking at the process He presents to us and its outcome, I can reach conclusions that evolution had a purpose. An end point of a human with consciousness is highly improbable and implies purpose. I am am totally content with that, without knowing what God is thinking. God is unknowable; we are trapped with that knowledge and we can go no further.