origin of life (The atheist delusion)

by Peter P, Tuesday, February 05, 2008, 18:37 (6137 days ago) @ George Jelliss

In your entry under "Teapot Agnosticism" you write: "The postulation of a "designer" to guide these processes is just so over-the-top in improbabilities as not to be worth considering." - Let me get this straight. It's your belief that life originated by accident. You haven't got any actual evidence, but nobody else's beliefs are even worth considering. Past giants like Newton, Faraday, Maxwell, Planck, Darwin, Huxley, Einstein, Heisenberg were totally deluded in their religion or their agnosticism, and anyone else past, present or future who considers just the possibility of a designer is, by inference, a fool. Because only a fool would consider something that is not worth considering. This is the sort of pushy bigotry that gives atheism a bad name. As other correspondents have pointed out, we're all agnostics in the sense that we don't actually know whether God exists or not. OK to make judgements on what seems most likely to you, but to claim that your belief is the only one worth considering seems to me a long, long, long way over-the-top.