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To: Gondring
“perfect conditions for humans” is absolutely no evidence toward creationism.

Conclusive evidence? No, of course not...short of a time-machine (or direct revelation) such evidence is not possible. And that would be "perfect conditions" for all forms of life on Earth, not merely humans.

However, if it can be shown that life on Earth is plausibly unique in all the unimaginably large universe...that does cause one to ponder.

The whole (now common) "life is common" theory in science about the universe is based on definite evolutionary assumptions--that time and chance are all that are necessary for creation, even of life--and the idea of a Supreme Being is cut out of the picture by default.

9 posted on 08/07/2008 10:31:27 PM PDT by AnalogReigns
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To: AnalogReigns

“However, if it can be shown that life on Earth is plausibly unique in all the unimaginably large universe...that does cause one to ponder.
The whole (now common) “life is common” theory in science about the universe is based on definite evolutionary assumptions—that time and chance are all that are necessary for creation, even of life—and the idea of a Supreme Being is cut out of the picture by default.”
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Cause one to ponder what? Why a “Supreme Being” would need to create “billions and billions” of stars, and wait for billions of years (16 billion, at least, according to the latest estimate I saw) to create our itty bitty, “unique” Earth so he could provide a place for humans to evolve from earlier forms of hominids? I had hoped we would find the Supreme Being could snap his supernatural fingers and create our physical domain a little more quickly and efficiently. But no, we got stuck with the “slow God,” I guess. You religious people crack me up.


16 posted on 08/07/2008 11:03:57 PM PDT by BuckeyeForever
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To: AnalogReigns

Isn’t it an amazing coincidence that every lottery winner held the ticket with numbers that matched the winning ones?

Not conclusive evidence that it’s miraculous, but wow.

And what are the chances that a single team of nearly evenly matched ones can win EVERY game out of a long single-eliminatino tournament bracket? Does the Champion look back and say, “It seems like a miracle that we won.” How can he, when any of the teams could have been that one?

Maybe, just maybe, you can’t look back from the final result to claim the beginning was miraculous, since we wouldn’t be here unless things were right.


42 posted on 08/08/2008 5:44:28 AM PDT by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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