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Has Science done away with a need for God?
RE: Has Science done away with a need for God?
(July 29, 2015 at 5:04 pm)lkingpinl Wrote: I would have to assume that a being of intelligence was present and wrote those words.  What would you deduce in that same scenario?

... But you know that no being has ever been to this planet before. You have evidence that you are the first mind there and you'd still assume that someone was there before you?

As for me, I'd have no choice but to give more credence to the idea that the words formed naturally, since I have no evidence that they could have been written.

Let's change it up, however, and make the question more like the DNA example: say you go to the same planet, but instead of words in English, you find repeated symbols on the ground. They aren't intelligible to you at all, they match no known language, but you can see patterns in them, and the symbols are very complicated to look at. Do you deduce intelligent agency there, or not?
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Messages In This Thread
Has Science done away with a need for God? - by Kingpin - July 27, 2015 at 11:29 am
RE: Has Science done away with a need for God? - by Lek - July 29, 2015 at 12:22 pm
RE: Has Science done away with a need for God? - by Esquilax - July 29, 2015 at 5:14 pm
Has Science done away with a need for God? - by Kingpin - July 31, 2015 at 10:20 pm
Has Science done away with a need for God? - by Kingpin - July 31, 2015 at 11:36 pm
RE: Has Science done away with a need for God? - by IATIA - August 1, 2015 at 9:46 am

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