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Originally Posted by ScottKuma
Hey, I might think you're a nutcase for if you claimed that, but does that make your assertation any less valid?
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No, because it is completely invalid in the first place. There is no basis for my assertion, I just plucked it out of the air.
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Originally Posted by ScottKuma
Order does not come from chaos - chaos only breeds MORE of itself. Entropy always increases & the like.
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It's odd how you qualify a non-scientific argument with pseudo-scientific reasoning. I'm sure you know from experience that chaos does not only lead to more chaos, look around you. A complex, well-ordered organism can be grown from a seed or egg, and you can turn a few small lumps of rock into an Ipod.
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Originally Posted by ScottKuma
However, so much order exists in the universe! And it repeats across scale - atoms look an awful lot like planetary systems, which in turn looks an awful lot like galaxies, etc. That order, and the rules that govern it, seems too well planned to be random, especially when I take into consideration these differences in scale & distance.
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Not really. Since both galaxies and planetary systems are both chiefly governed by the same force, gravity, it is obvious there will look very similar as they are practically the same thing just with differing numbers of bodies (there are also galaxies which do not follow the popular spiral or disc shape). Atoms, however, only look like planetary systems in school textbooks where you have a little blob of balls being orbited by other balls. It's not an accurate description of what an atom 'looks' like, if you can even use that term on an atomic scale.
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Originally Posted by ScottKuma
Again, I completely disagree - maybe it's the romantic nature in me, but I can't get away from the fact that all of what I see around me seems too perfectly designed , for lack of a better term. I can't look at a tree, a sunset, a beautiful snowcapped mountain, or a beautiful newborn baby & not see the effects of the "design of God" (again, for lack of a better term).
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Oh dear, we seem to be going in circles
My point is...
why do you attribute these things to a higher power that you call God? It's just like the wind argument from before. You do not understand something, therefore it must be caused by God.
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Originally Posted by ScottKuma
The only thing that makes an idea "crackpot" is the fact that it does not coincide with our own beliefs or the collective beliefs of society.
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The lack of a foundation in reality also helps.
If you disagree I'm sorry, the beetles made me do it.
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Originally Posted by bill96ab
If you would like, read the short book by C.S. Lewis "Suprised by Joy". Lewis was an atheist too... for a while.
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Correct me if I'm wrong but Lewis was not a biochemist. Nor was "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" a research paper on the evolution of mammalian psychology.
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Originally Posted by martinguerre
If you can tell me about chemical reactions or signals... Why?
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Obviously all research that you do not immediately see the benefit of, is pointless.