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Dr Jack
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Message 108 of 126 (53644)
09-03-2003 6:01 AM
Reply to: Message 106 by Wise
09-03-2003 1:09 AM


Wise,
Why do you assume that because light didn't come about through evolution it had to 'just happen'? I don't think you'll find many Physicists to agree with you on that. They will probably tell you we don't know why the fundemental properties are as they are, but that is long way from saying they 'just happened'. Already there are tantalising hints of a deeper structure, explaining the values found in the Standard Model.
You're quite right we will never know everything about the universe. Now explain how that means we can't explain it's origin and properties? You understand don't you that that's a very small part of everything about the universe?
"Faith requires NO evidence", huh? Sounds to me like you've just chosen ignorance; don't expect us to rush to join you.

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Dr Jack
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Message 113 of 126 (53664)
09-03-2003 9:25 AM
Reply to: Message 112 by Wise
09-03-2003 9:13 AM


Wise,
Please use the reply button at the bottom of the post you are replying to, also please use the quote or qs tags to identify quoted material in your posts.
"Tantalizing hints"? You mean like...GOOD GOD....Light COULD actually be "living"?! Thereby it needs a BEGINNING?! GASP...Choke...choke..
Don't be stupid. Light is not living, nor is there any possibility it could be so. Light is simply a form of electromagnetic radiation, which is an extremely well understood phenemona, with very well defined and understood properties. We do not yet know why it has the particular properties it has, but ignorance is not evidence.
Then if Physicists do not think that light "just happened" then it will be up to them to explain its evolution.
As has been pointed out to you many a time, light is not alive therfore it has not evolved. Its properties are in need of explanation and work is being done to provide this explanation. I am confident that Physicists will be able to provide deeper explanations in the coming years.
But even if they do not, that will still not be any kind of evidence for a god, or gods. Specifically it will not be evidence for your particular brand of god, rather than Odin, Krishna or the Cosmic Goat. No part of Atheism requires that the universe be comprehensible to us.
If one cannot know everything about the universe then how can one EVER undertsand its creator?
What does that have to do with anything? There is no evidence of there being any creator to understand.

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