Michael Behe\'s son is an atheist (Introduction)

by dhw, Tuesday, August 30, 2011, 16:41 (4834 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: May I be so bold as to suggest that your lack of background in this area of chemistry has caused you to stop on top of the picket fence.-Dhw: [...] Only tell me then how you account for the professional biochemists who stand solidly on the atheist side of my picket fence.-DAVID: Like surgeons who have faith they can fix everything, atheist biochemists believe in abiogenesis as the only answer to life's appearance, and evolution, by chance, created the extremely complicated processes of life. Follow Sandwalk and see what Moran writes. Dawkins is God. Pure faith in chance!-I have never disagreed with you over the unlikelihood of abiogenesis and evolution by chance creating the extremely complicated processes of life. It is also one of my own main arguments against atheism. However, you have suggested that it is my ignorance of biochemistry that causes me to stay on my picket fence, and I am pointing out that there are professional biochemists who totally reject your interpretation of their/your findings, so ugh ugh, why pick on poor old dhw, who doesn't? It is my inability to believe in chance, balanced by my inability to believe in an unknowable and self-generated intelligence, that keeps me on my fence.