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To: metmom
In order to make these blanket statements, scientists would need to demonstrate that they indeed know all there is to know about all DNA and WHY it's the way it is. They're presuming they know more than an intelligent designer capable of creating an entire universe and the life in it. A bit presumptuous.

Worse than that, actually. One of the favorite refutations of theistic arguments is "How are *you* so specially favored to know what God is like. It's only your opinion, not falsifiable, etc. etc."

But they have no compunction, when considering life and/or "God", in jumping to the conclusion (but treating it as 'axiomatic') that God worked and thought primarily as an engineer. Why not a hacker, or even an artsy-fartsy "creative" type?

Cheers!

70 posted on 09/11/2006 6:07:29 PM PDT by grey_whiskers
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To: grey_whiskers
"But they have no compunction, when considering life and/or "God", in jumping to the conclusion (but treating it as 'axiomatic') that God worked and thought primarily as an engineer. Why not a hacker, or even an artsy-fartsy "creative" type?"

Because that image of God does not fit in with the 'Platonic ideal' of a God that has been put forward by Christians.

190 posted on 09/13/2006 11:33:28 AM PDT by b_sharp (Objectivity? Objectivity? We don't need no stinkin' objectivity.)
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