Definitions (Evolution)

by David Turell , Tuesday, April 08, 2008, 15:45 (6073 days ago) @ Peter P

2) David Turrell says the odds against chance creating life are stupendously enormous and some supernatural force is the more likely explanation. (I found his different examples fascinating, by the way.) Does he believe in God? If so, what kind of God?< - Peter: I&apos;m a former agnostic who did 15 years of reading books and articles on consmology, particle physics, Darwin, philosophic books, atheistic books. As a retired physician, I can read scientific journals and have done so. I did not use the Bible. I don&apos;t think much of organized religion. - I finally concluded there is a &apos;greater power&apos; which I think is an embedded intelligence or consciousness in the universe, but also outside. That makes me, I have found out, a panentheist, I guess sort of in the mold of Einstein and Spinoza. I don&apos;t think our brain could have an emergent property like consciousness unless a universal consciousness already existed. There are studies in human species consciousness at Princeton U., by Rupert Sheldrake, and others. Very suggestive, I might add.