Dear Paul, Anyone who believes that something came out of nothing without an un-caused first cause, and that lifeless chemicals can randomly order themselves into the highly complex organisms without any intelligent or energetic input must be the height of irrationality. Everything about life screams of an intelligent origin. The only argument that can be put against it isn't and argument but a belief. I believe a creator makes far more sense than without one. Nobody in their right senses would believe that a computer could evolve itself. Just because people cannot understand or explain the creator does not make its existence unlikely or invalid. If it makes you feel better don't call it God call it - a creative intelligence or something like that, but please don't insult our intelligence, by saying that it all happened randomly and undirected. It just isn't possible. No scientist, with all of modern technology at their disposal, has ever been able to duplicate life in the way that they would like to. You ought to read up on Dawkins 'Methinks it is like a weasle' and his 'biomorphs' arguments for achieving order out of randomness. Its so pathetic as to be embarrassing because he couldn't see the obvious flaw in his logic. Jack ----- Original Message ----- From: Paul Deema To: Geocentrism@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2007 1:57 PM Subject: [geocentrism] Re: Invitation Philip M Once again you delight me. Very nicely reasoned. I am especially sympathetic here. From philip madsen Fri Sep 7 23:00:08 2007 I look forward to his response but don't hold your breath. He know s he will get creamed! He has no time for people who say 'God did it' but has plenty of time for those who say 'first there was nothing then it exploded and then against all the odds out came life miraculously' Jack.. But Jack from outside the discussion, and allowing for no bias either way, I can see that both points of view, are equally frustrating. But the rationalist has the greater case. To a person who sees GOD as nothing, and we cannot substantiate Him as being anything but "spirit", which to a physicist is "nothing", then his, the rationalists, view of the universe as being unexplainable by anything other than some strange and complex mechanism has to be more realistic and more rational than it being designed and made out of nothing by a fairy, even a super duper omnipotent fairy. Philosophcally, having no bias, I can see, "God created it." and "'first there was nothing then it exploded and then against all the odds out came life " as equal value statements... But as a physicist, I see it as imcompatible opposites. However, without having ever read Dawkins, I can bet you are oversimplifying the evolutionist position as regards the big bang. The universe did not come out of nothing. It was/is/will be always there in some form, which in physics could be some form of energy cycling process. This is a quite rational view. At least it has to a rationalist , more substance than our resorting to a spiritual Supreme being, based upon no evidence whatsoever, and on faith alone to explain existence. If you kept throwing God at me in support of creation as opposed to the rationalist explanation I proposed for existence, I would be justly excused for being annoyed. You would be and are being un-scientific. Your correct approach would be to offe a separate discussion on "Is there a Supreme Intelligence called God." To which Dawkins or any other rationalist has the right to decline, or if he has the grace to seek, accept. We cannot rationally mix the two subjects together.. Philip. Paul D ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sick of deleting your inbox? Yahoo!7 Mail has free unlimited storage. Get it now.