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Wouldn't arrogance imply that there is an external life to ours that our attitudes could be measured against? Either way I don't think you will find that most people believing in the improbability of life on earth treat it arrogantly. I myself would be more comfortable saying privileged or...

I've been thinking about this today and getting lost within it. Here's what I think you are saying (and please correct me if I am wrong!): Humans are what associate information with intelligence and since we are essentially talking about the birth of life that lead to humans we cannot stipulate...

Yeah I can appreciate what you are saying here but there are a few things worth mentioning. Firstly as has been mentioned in the above posts - the existance of life is not the only problem. The existance of a universe that doesn't collapse upon itself or that exists in the first place is where...

I think this has probably been answered now but what I have quoted from you is the entire point. Why are the laws the way they are? As you pointed out, if they were anything but what they are, the universe and reality would not exist (not to even mention life within that reality)

Before I start in a reply, I have to ask whether you realize that writing in caps is interpreted as shouting on the internet? I feel like I am being assaulted each time I read a reply from you. I believe I have through my point that an absence of God leaves far more problems than an absence of...

I <3 you Kfunk :) So essentially what we are proposing is that life is the result of random unguided chemical reactions? Kfunk I also think it is very critical that we have a definition of what I mean when I write "information". I don't even really know how to describe this elegantly but I...

I think you may be mis-understanding his point here. My thought was not that he was asking why an atom is stable, but rather why are there the laws that would allow an atom to be stable. I suppose it's the same as gravity and any other natural laws that seem to be perfectly "tuned" to allow...

Reasons?

Why is that Slidey? :( That was my assumption and shortcoming. As far as I understood, I was under the impression that evolution worked on the basis that random mutation allowed a certain characteristic to become favorable and hence it is naturally selected. So in this way, I suppose that one...

I can't see how comparing the belief in fairies can logically be compared to a God. Dismissing the idea of fairies leaves no where near the problems that dismissing a God does. The non belief in God leaves a large amount of unanswerable questions alone in ignorance. I am just not comfortable...

Yup, so the Argument from analogy can only be used to make something probable rather than certain. Even with this is mind (and knowing that I will never be able prove the existance of God 100%) I am quite happy to maintain my faith in an idea that it is probable if not certain. I don't agree...

Okay, so moving into this style of argument you realize you are promoting an agnostic stance and not an atheistic one? You are promoting the fact that we do not know rather than we do know that God doesn't exist. Even so, my argument for intelligence in a creator is not currently stemming...

How about positively contributing something to the discussion that would enlighten me?

I don't feel that I am. In regards to what specifically? I don't know what you mean by formed around it (earth) here. Do you simply mean that we have populated the entire earth or that we gradually built up from nothing as an unguided processes around the world? If it is the second, then no, I...

Rather than just denying what I am saying would you be able to contribute to my knowledge by pointing out exactly where the problems lie in what I have stated? So what your saying then is that what I have said doesn't count because I have intelligence and therefore bias?

The current and most scientifically followed model of the universe still remains as the big bang theory - beyond this I think that you are moving into a realm that requires equal if not more faith than the belief in an intelligent creator. Pseudoscience. Please put forward your particular...

The actual language of the DNA may be simple enough since it only consists of four letters, but this does not mean that what it describes is simple at all. I won't presume to know all that much about DNA (everything that I am talking about is only what has been mentioned in my reading) but I...

This is because we know that whatever begins to exist has a cause. DNA and its information within it began to exist at some point and therefore it needs a cause or reason. A timeless God however has no need to have a cause since he did not "begin" to exist. The fact that he is timeless means...

I think the most common definition of God that most would be discussing here is that of an omnipotent, omnipresent, timeless, intelligent being that is responsible for origins of the universe. Of course we may see variations upon this - but essentially we are talking about an intelligent...

I would first direct you to a couple of articles that deal with possible reasons for junk dna: http://www.reasons.org/resources/connections/2000v2n1/index.shtml#junk_dna http://www.reasons.org/resources/fff/2000issue03/index.shtml#junk_dna Lets put that aside for a second though and even...