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The atheist delusion
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> [i]dhw: The creation of these responses, and indeed of every innovation you can think of, is indeed the wonder. Was their creation the result of God interfering, God preprogramming every single detail (which he would have to do if the mechanism itself didn't take the decisions), blind chance (= random mutations), or the innovative but unselfconscious intelligence of the cells forming new combinations? Four hypotheses. Take your pick, or sit on the fence with me.[/i]-Nice capsule distillation dhw. The first two seem closely related, with God merely varying as to his choice of mechanism for foisting determinism on living systems and the cosmos at large. The fourth one seems to be least bizarre (just barely) and the one Darwin hinted at when he posited the creator breathing the spark of life into a few cells, or one.
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