Asking of the Designer what we would of any other designer (The atheist delusion)

by dhw, Friday, July 29, 2011, 11:20 (4866 days ago) @ David Turell

Dhw (to whateverist): It appears from your post that you ARE prepared to believe in the chance assembly of the machinery. No-one can object to that, so long as you are aware that such belief is an act of faith akin to believing in a designer god. But you will not often find an atheist prepared to concede that his/her atheism is based on faith!-DAVID: It will take lots of faith according to this new article using the Bayesian theorem to state that abiogenesis is rare in the universe:-http://search.arxiv.org:8081/paper.jsp?r=1107.3835&qid=13118811238079a_nCnN_-141356...-If I were an atheist I would leap on this conclusion with a howl of delight. You don't need abiogenesis ... which I take to mean the hypothesis that life can emerge spontaneously from non-living materials ... to be common. If it is rare, it is believable. The only life we know of is life on Earth, and it is this very uniqueness which for me reduces the probability of abiogenesis to unbelievable odds. If life is found elsewhere ... particularly if it has evolved to advanced forms ... it still won't provide proof of abiogenesis, but it will certainly reduce those odds.

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