re atheist s views on christianity was re accepting jeesus in your heart in article apr athos rutgers edu jasons atlastele com jason smith writes one of the laws of nature specifying cause and effect seems to dictate at least to this layman s mind there must be a causal event no reasonable alternative exists the big bang model supposes a temporal singularity at the point of origin there was no time for a prior cause to occur in if you want to invent fables for the surrounding context fine but one fable is only as good as any other why should i prefer to believe in a god that just exists as opposed to a singularity that just happened or giant puce subspace iguanas that fling universes off their tongues like gobs of spit as far as i can tell the very laws of nature demand a why that isn t true of something outside of nature i e super natural i believe the genetic code will be entirely deciphered in our lifetimes but we will not see man convert entirely inert material into self sustaining reproducing life ever i ve never been much of a prophet though i can t even picture new york in my mind i don t believe any technology would be able to produce that necessary spark of life despite having all of the parts available just my opinion just your opinion and unfortunately wrong self assembling molecules have already been produced entirely from inert matter and have spontaneously mutated into a more rapidly assembling form on exposure to ultraviolet light both abiogenesis and the beginnings of evolution today saw this in nature early last year biological vitalism is dead and has been dead for many many years give it up life is not a spark life is the self organization of systems poised between chaos and order until the king returns jason your king baldly and repeatedly stated he would be back within the lifetime of some then present and alive soon soon he said over and over as have many would be messiahs it is nineteen ninety three of years anno domini tell me tell me where is he nowhere at all q e d max g webb i should have watched this more closely we had a discussion about the first cause etc not long ago i m not up for a replay there was also a detailed discussion of the point max brings up here about the initial singularity the geometry near the big bang is very interesting time turns into space so there is no before clh
