[steve-b]

Because human beings are not creations, human beings must be an accidental product of physics and chemistry.

At this point, you are sidestepping the fact that there is a rather high degree of order inherent to the laws of physics and chemistry.

(If you want to respond that invoking this point takes us into pantheism rather than atheism, I won't argue too strongly.)

[Oberon]

At this point, you are sidestepping the fact that there is a rather high degree of order inherent to the laws of physics and chemistry.

Steve, I consider my conclusion in the aforementioned exercise to be absurd; while the reasoning is sound, it's based on a faulty premise. =]