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Has Science done away with a need for God?

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Has Science done away with a need for God?
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RE: Has Science done away with a need for God?
July 29, 2015 at 7:12 pm
(July 29, 2015 at 5:20 pm)lkingpinl Wrote: If the symbols are shown to be repeatable or have a pattern to them or appear to carry meaning, yes I must deduce an intelligent agency.  I would liken this to cave drawings or hieroglyphics.  I cannot decipher them, but they clearly carry meaning and I cannot logically deduce that it occurred naturally.

So then what on earth are you actually using to deduce agency at all? If it's not intelligibility, or complexity, or even the available evidence, then what is informing these deductions? Seems to me you'll just assume agency at every turn, based on very little at all.
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Has Science done away with a need for God?

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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 7:12 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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