Crap-Shoot of Weighty and Starry Existence
God Cannot be Derived from the Cosmological Argument or Argument from Design An intelligent Christian blogger I often come across online, ran by a quote which he found and put to me: Why not consider the possibility that life is what it so evidently seems to be, the product of creative intelligence? Science would not come to an end, because the task would remain of deciphering the languages in which genetic information is communicated, and in general finding out how the whole system works. What scientists would lose is not an inspiring research program, but the illusion of total mastery of nature. They would have to face the possibility that beyond the natural world there is a further reality which transcends science. (Johnson, p.110) Johnson, Phillip. Darwin on Trial , Washington, D.C.: Regnery Gateway, 1991. This is a pro-Creationist quote, and nothing against the author, but it specifically asks to consider the hypothesis that there is an...