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In reply to the discussion: Atheists Still Waiting for the Origin-of-Life Messiah [View all]Joe Chi Minh
(15,229 posts)are so overwhelmingly indicative of an omnipotent, omniscient Creator - in Einstein's words, a 'Great Spirit, vastly superior to that of man' - he was looking increasingly foolish.
My religiosity consists of a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit,
That superior reasoning power forms my idea of God. - Einstein.
A single E-Coli cell enlarge to the human scale would be the size of a small town - a small town, moreover, in the form of a vast factory of a technological sophistication we could barely dream of - with all the departments of a major factory and much much more.
Worse, for the historically atypical scientists, effectively scoffing at the great paradigm-changers, such as Einstein as simpletons, and who disparage the intelligent design of matter right down to the quantum level, it has been demonstrated that after matter reduces to energy, energy reduces to information. And no information worth tuppence is produced by 'nothing followed by random events' (phrase coined by Marfin on 'uncommondescent.com'). Posts 25, 53 and 54, among others, are particularly revelatory.
'The Basic Elements of Nature: Matter, Energy, and Information
Evidently nature can no longer be seen as matter and energy alone. Nor can all her secrets be unlocked with the keys of chemistry and physics, brilliantly successful as these two branches of science have been in our century.
A third component is needed for any explanation of the world that claims to be complete. To the powerful theories of chemistry and physics must be added a late arrival: a theory of information.
Nature must be interpreted as matter, energy, and information. Jeremy C Campbell. Journalist and author of Grammatical Man: Information, Entropy, Language and Life, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, UK: Penguin Books, 1984:16 (Reprint).
- quoted on the 'AuthorsDen.com' blog.