Chance v. Design Part 4 (Evolution)

by George Jelliss , Crewe, Thursday, June 11, 2009, 10:51 (5442 days ago) @ dhw

DHW: "And the fact is that if scientists do eventually succeed in producing life from nonlife, it still won't tell us whether life was designed or not, since they are intelligent people working in laboratories conducting conscious experiments." - This is an argument DHW has expressed before, but it makes no sense. If scientists are able eventually to demonstrate abiogenesis, this will mean that they have identified the conditions under which it will occur. They can then look around the universe, or back in its history, to find places where all those conditions are or were met as a result of natural processes. It would then be inevitable that life, in the most primitive form of a replicating system of molecules, would be likely to occur there. - Of course there is nothing then to stop the god-befuddled saying that it was still all arranged by some deity for these natural processes to produce the necessary conditions. But then they would say that wouldn't they!

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GPJ