A friend just published an interesting take on this debate -
it's written as a dialogue between a believer and a sceptic, and
explores many aspects of this:
> Dialogue with a Christian Proselytizer
> Todd Gates
If there's any interest, ping me off-list & I'll see if he minds me
giving out his email.
On 15. Jan, 2007, at 3:20, Nicolas Roard wrote:
> On 1/14/07, Dana W Cook <danacook88@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Anyway, the author, while trying to find support for a coexistant
>> "GOD" and
>> our science, he goes through what is required for our kind of life
>> to exist
>> (carbon based life) on our planet in our solar system in our
>> universe. The
>> probability as he calculates it is quite small, and therefore, he
>> says that
>> this alone MAY be proof of some higher form responsible for at least
>> creating the environment from which life was spawned (and from
>> what point of
>> life is dependent on your own beliefs - I am not trying to incite
>> a riot
>> here).
>
> Anyway, it's always the same thing with the concept of god -- it's
> undecidable, and a matter of faith, not logic. Tough it also depends
> on your concept of god : there's a wide difference between "god" as in
> "laws of nature" or even "set up the laws of nature and waited" and
> "god" as in "angry white bearded old men in the clouds looking at
> you".
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