Origin of Life: miracle? (Introduction)

by David Turell , Monday, October 14, 2013, 17:35 (4059 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: Hold on. We've now switched from "burden to prove" to "reasonable possibility". So if the atheist says he can see no reasonable possibility of some invisible, unknowable, eternal, infinite being capable both of creating whole universes and of cobbling together the tiniest living micro-organisms, why is his version of what is reasonable any less valid than that of the theist who sees no reasonable possibility other than there being a designer? What gives Rabbi Averick or anyone else the right to claim they know what is or isn't reasonable?-All we have is reason. Neither possibililty, chance or design is absolutely proveable. You are looking for a middle ground like Nagel. Find it!
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> dhw: The subjectively viewed reasonableness or otherwise of the two hypotheses stems at least partly from their negation of the other viewpoint: chance is unreasonable, therefore God is reasonable. God is unreasonable, therefore chance is reasonable. -Again, no middle ground seems available. Forces a choice or an unwillingness to choose. Back to the picket fence.