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On Tue, 9 Sep 2025 09:43:23 +0100, the following appeared in
talk.origins, posted by "Kerr-Mudd, John" :
>On Tue, 9 Sep 2025 16:58:54 +1000
>MarkE wrote:
>
>> On 9/09/2025 2:19 pm, jillery wrote:
>> > On Mon, 8 Sep 2025 17:35:25 +1000, MarkE wrote:
>> >
>> >> On 8/09/2025 7:02 am, John Harshman wrote:
>> >>> On 9/7/25 6:58 AM, MarkE wrote:
>> >>>> On 7/09/2025 11:25 pm, John Harshman wrote:
>> >>>>> On 9/7/25 12:51 AM, MarkE wrote:
>> >>>>>> On 7/09/2025 12:28 pm, Chris Thompson wrote:
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>> This brings me back to my "1000 years" thought exercise. If that
>> >>>>>>>> scenario did play out, it would be an instance of science
>> >>>>>>>> providing evidence of non-causality. That's the other sharp edge -
>> >>>>>>>> evidence from science giving reason to consider explanations
>> >>>>>>>> beyond the reach of science.
>
>Well, let's say you win, and the exact sequence of the OoL is unknowable
>by science. So you've got a smoking gun: God did it. But how? why? which
>god, and is is the sort that requires constant prayers? Doesn't help a
>bit, IMHO.
>
>But however He did it, he really does seem to be a sloppy molecular
>biologist, and leaving stuff to just evolve seems a bit uncaring to me.
>
"Any deity worthy of a graven image can cobble up a working
universe complete with fake fossils in under a week - hey,
if you're not omnipotent, there's no real point in being a
god. But to start with a big ball of elementary particles
and end up with the duckbill platypus without constant
twiddling requires a degree of subtlety and the ability to
Think Things Through: exactly the qualities I'm looking for
when I'm shopping for a Supreme Being." - Lee DeRaud
-)
>
--
Bob C.
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science,
the one that heralds new discoveries, is not
'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"
- Isaac Asimov
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