Depends on how low a bar you're willing to put for acceptable explanations. In order for "goddidit" ALWAYS be an option, you must bring that bar so low that other possibilities will inevitably leak in. Such as Last-thursdayism, Spaghetti-monsterinsm, and, yes indeed, (Invisible-)Pink-unicornism. And who wants that??
It's just that if someone says "goddidit" or "godcouldhavedoneit" in some evolution related thread it many times drags the whole topic off point.
That's why I think it should be always be considered as a "possible option" even in science threads.
Now as a possible option I don't mean that after writing a lengthy post explaining in detail about for example, the possible mechanics of abiogenesis, you should write somewhere on the end with small print "or god could have done it..."
My real point is that there are a lot of newcomers to this forum who don't understand why goddidit is not a valid point for scientific discussion. I think a topic should be stickied somewhere here that says "God did it is always an option but does not belong in scientific discussion because..."
And if only to spare us from repeating this dialogue:
New guy: God could have also done it!
Old guy: That's nonsense/That offers no information on how he did it/So why did he make it look like it fits this evidence?/Define God/ saghknlmn could have also done it!/ Flying Spaghetti Monster could have also done it!
New guy: This forum is so biased!/Still it doesn't mean He didn't do it./To test our faith/I see god as loving, passionate.../No reply/ There is no basis to assume that the Flying Spaghetti Monster did it when there is lots of evidence to assume God did it.
Also, newcomers should be informed of Razd's "Enjoy" signature as it's creating a lot of annoyance between the newbies
Edited by Neutralmind, : No reason given.