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This is very interesting. I am in no way qualified to give a decent answer/debate on this as i have read very little about it, and i dont see any of the "other side" to the arguement as it were. Saying that, some thoughts, why does it have to be a divine being that is the cause of this, just because it is your only answer now, it was god, to anything we do not yet understand, as it has been in the past, back then it was god provides rain, god makes the plants grow or whatever, because we didnt know what was behind it. As scientific advances showed how these things could work without a divine presence, the awe was moved up a step, and as each thing was given a answer by science, another thing was brought up.
People seem to think that science is like a religion, that it has all the answers, but i think science is still young, so many things not explained, more theories put forward, its constantly changing and pushing what we know, but each step it takes seems to give us a lot more proof than religion ever gave us as that is the basis of science as you hint at with your scientific process. I think a arguement based on, isnt this amazing, only a omnipotent being could do this is always a poor one.
As Hal and others where saying also, if you look hard enough anywhere, you'll see patterns in everything. For instance, take a circle as a simple example, or pi that detirmines a circle. You see circles everywhere in nature, does this too mean that this is only gods doing, or is there something else behind it?
Its late here and ive babbled on, but i hope i got my thoughts accross
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