Balance of nature illustrated (Introduction)

by David Turell , Thursday, February 12, 2015, 21:11 (3571 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: The atheist says there is no God, therefore chance must have done it, though he doesn't know how. You say chance can't have done it, so God must have done it, though you don't know how. Neither of you can see that you are in the same boat. Two one-eyed kings...-Since there are only chance and design one has to be true. I like my eye's view better.
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>dhw: It [agnosticism] is just as much the result of conscious thinking as your decision that God exists. The mystery of consciousness is not solved by telling us that consciousness can only have been created by a consciousness that was not created.-I cannot believe something as magical as consciousness can have been invented from a gaseous and rocky universe by chance out of thin air. Only a purposeful entity could do that.