Chance v. Design Part 4 (Evolution)

by dhw, Friday, June 26, 2009, 20:37 (5427 days ago) @ George Jelliss

George: If scientists are able eventually to demonstrate abiogenesis, this will mean 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. - One of my great pleasures on this website, George, is your mastery of language. If I hadn't learned to admire and respect you as much as I do, I might have suggested you go into politics. Well, I'll join you in your hypothesis, and will even add a personal note to it: - If scientists can prove that life came about by accident, and generated itself spontaneously as a result of natural processes here and elsewhere in the universe, it will be inevitable that I am likely to become an atheist. - George: 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! - Just one tiny problem here. No-one has yet demonstrated abiogenesis, no-one has yet demonstrated that once conditions are right for life, life will occur, and no-one has yet demonstrated that life has spontaneously arisen elsewhere in the universe. Atheists are confident that it will all come to pass, and so fervent is their faith that they say other faiths are a load of befuddlement. But then they would say that, wouldn't they!