[Trimegistus]

In the News/Activism forum, on a thread titled Calculations favor reducing atmosphere for early earth: Was Miller-Urey experiment correct?, PatrickHenry wrote:

" Every time an alleged "miracle" is demonstrated to be a natural occurrence, those who require miracles will squeeze and spin and dance as much as necessary to still find something they can claim is a miracle -- that is, an event not yet explained or demonstrated."

Which is sad, because of course the entire history and development of life on Earth _is_ a miracle, and a far more profound one than some old guy in a nightshirt waving a magic wand in 4004 BCE.

The billions of years the Earth has existed and the slow progression from inanimate molecules to people capable of arguing about it is a far more persuasive proof of the existence of a deity than any amount of bogus "answers in Genesis" nitpicks at the fossil record. I'm an atheist myself, but when I can wrap my mind around the scale of Earth's history I feel tremendous awe.

[js1138]

Existence is indeed a miracle. The question posed by science is whether the rules are unchanging, and whether we can find them.

[Thatcherite]

The billions of years the Earth has existed and the slow progression from inanimate molecules to people capable of arguing about it is a far more persuasive proof of the existence of a deity than any amount of bogus "answers in Genesis" nitpicks at the fossil record. I'm an atheist myself, but when I can wrap my mind around the scale of Earth's history I feel tremendous awe.

Also the scale of the universe's volume, and the femto-spopic scale of the universe's structure... You took the words right out of my brain.