Chance v. Design (Evolution)

by George Jelliss , Crewe, Sunday, May 10, 2009, 19:19 (5674 days ago) @ dhw

dhw (version): Here are two theories. 1) A pre-existing intelligence assembled bits of inanimate matter 2) By [a certain amount of] sheer luck [with the help of natural law] bits of inanimate matter assembled themselves. - My point is that 2 is included in 1. Hypothesis 1 assumes much more than hypothesis 2. - dhw claims that both hypotheses have no scientific evidence. I say 2 does have scientific evidence, namely that there was a stage without life and a stage with life, and therefore we may deduce, without making further assumptions, that a transition took place from one to the other. The exact details of the process are as yet unknown, but it is unnecessary to postulate entirely extraneous interference by fairies or other beings in the process. For that there certainly is no evidence. - Once more round the mulberry bush dear friends.

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GPJ