[metmom]

Exhibit Two is the denial of tenure to Guillermo Gonzalez by the astronomy department of Iowa State University, despite a stellar record of scientific publications. His crime? He co-authored a book ("The Privileged Planet") that suggested that the unusually benign (for life) situation of the Earth might have been due to an intelligent designer.

Imagine that, that any thinking person could look at the universe in all it's beauty, order, and complexity and come to the conclusion that it was created instead of just happening.

Dontcha know that it makes more sense to declare that everything appeared out of nowhere, all on its own, exploded itself, organized itself, established its own laws, and gave rise to complex, intelligent life, all just by chance? Really, to think that someone could have designed and created it. How silly....

[RightWhale]

any thinking person could look at the universe in all it's beauty, order, and complexity and come to the conclusion that it was created instead of just happening.

Beauty, order, and complexity are subjective. We create those things. As to whether 'it' was created we can never know but we also cannot prove it wasn't either. Some things are beyond the power of reason.