E. Coli vs. Linux (Humans)

by David Turell , Wednesday, May 19, 2010, 17:39 (5301 days ago) @ dhw


> Non-belief in the one is no reason for believing in the other, because to believe in either you have to exclude reason and give yourself over to faith. Very few atheists accept that, whereas most theists do. And so the answer to your question why I can't take the next step (in either of these two directions) is simply that I lack faith.-I don't think you have to give up reason. Adler and Flew, as two examples did not do that. Neither did I. The first issue is recognizing that whatever is God is unknowable, and unimanginable. Religions try to fill in the blanks but they are guessing just as much as the rest of us. God is not going to be revealed to you, or anyone, in any way. You and I agree that the accidental origin of life is an impossible concept to accept. The only logical next step that it was caused by something. Now you are stuck; you don't want to accept the unimaginable, but what else can you do? The pickets on the fence, irritating your rump should make you want to do something. Perhaps you don't like answers, unless they are satisfying. I don't like the pickets, and I do feel satisfied. I have no real idea of what I am accepting, but it makes me feel good, like the love of my wife does, or when I think aobut my guardian angel, my first wife's Mother. I 'know' she is watching over me; the tingle inside tells me. I have gone to faith, because it feels good, not because I have forced myself to faith.
And it feels good, because it does give me an answer. There has GOT to be an intelligent cause for all the computer-like layers in the genetic reproductive mechanism. Nothing else fits, despite Matt's and George's wishful faith in chance.