Abiogenesis (Origins)

by broken_cynic , Tuesday, August 09, 2011, 01:44 (4854 days ago) @ David Turell

David: God is not a magician. That bemeans the concept of a greater power, one of the phrases I use for the UI. As Adler puts it, "God is a personage like no other person we can imagine or think of. I believe the appearance of life is miraculous, and calls to view the infinite impossiblity of chance.-This brings up two questions for me.-1) I'm confused. Are you using the terms God and UI interchangeably? If not, are you positing a UI which extends beyond the universe, creating the rules we play by and a 'God' which is constrained by those rules as we are?-2) Wouldn't a simpler* resolution to your quandary be to assume that the success of chance at creating life is your one miracle rather than compounding extra inexplicable miracles on top of extraordinary miracles to explain that single one that so bugs you?-* I originally typed 'the simplest,' but I can suggest one simpler. ;)

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Abiogenesis (Origins)