Dear Alan B,

You wrote;

“In order to explain life and he universe, we are left with just two conclusions, intelligent design or magic?”

Or the third and most obvious is that we don't know everything yet but as our understanding grows things are revealed that were once considered 'magic' or unknown and are now accepted orthodoxy.

Your post is all about filling the gaps in our knowledge with a God. In some ways this is more disingenuous than the kookiness of Don as he is prepared to set aside solid science and be judged on that. You are more intent on inhabiting the fuzzy areas thus preserving your beliefs from direct assessment. Why not take the bull by the horns and commit properly because one day all the gaps will be gone.

Dear SteeleRedux,

You wrote: "Why not take the bull by the horns and commit properly because one day all the gaps will be gone."

I don't think all the gaps will ever be gone, but I may be wrong.

Steelie: “In order to explain life and he universe, we are left with just two conclusions, intelligent design or magic?”

Hi Steelie. Welcome Back. Intelligent Design or Magic. Nah! It was Rabbits, The Rabbits made the Heavens, Earth The Cosmos & Everything In between & round about.

Maybe what we call God does exist. Being a "Being" of which Earth is but a single Atom with-in that Being. Just Navel Gazing, that's all. Maybe?

Then, with-in us, there are other Atoms on which there is Life, but not as we know it. As they say, "It's Elephants all the way down, or is that Turtles?

Hey, Steelie, figured out if the World is Flat or Round yet? Just askin,' that's all.

I can see from certain comments here that we have the willfully blind attempting to refute the nature of reality. Namely, that nothing in existence could account for cosmic unity, nor the interconnected nature of the natural world; nor the immense biological complexity of every form of life; nor the reality that the universe cannot sustain itself and is running down towards increasing disorder, loss of information and heat death; Nor the reality that nothing in the universe is self explaining or self sustaining with self-existing or self-creating capabilities. All of which makes a self-existing transcendent first cause beyond the running down dying cosmos – God - both a scientific and philosophical necessity. Were it otherwise nothing would exist and we wouldn't be having this conversation - like it or not, believe it or not.

So, if anyone out there knows of any self-existing, self-creating and self-sustaining entity in the universe the Nobel Committee would like to hear from you. As you will certainly be awarded the ultimate Nobel Prize. Off you go - lets all see what you come up with. http://thegodreality.org/miraclesofscience.html

Reading the plain truth of Scripture is so refreshing from reading the idiotic illogical rants of the deniers. Wonderful to see clearly what is written in Scripture demonstrated in nature. Must be hard to shut your eyes and deny what can be plainly seen. Oh well that phd must be worth it for some.

@Alan B can you please give a reference to any scientist saying the things your saying?

Quantum mechanics does not suggest you can believe something into being. It just shows you don't understand QM. Probability waveforms collapsing when observation occurs is not the same a wishing.

"The oxygen in the air that I breathe cannot be seen, touched, heard or felt, yet if it were gone for just a few minutes, I would die."
Well oxygen can be seen, can be touched, and can be heard...how or earth do you think we know it's there! Again the science literate not letting their ignorance stop them from having an opinion and thinking they should be taken seriously.

@runner you demonstrate your love for your fellow man in every post.