On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 16:38:09 GMT, David Hill
wrote:

Nothing's ever that simple, but it seems to me that this property of the
universe, this 'tendency toward organization', might be the underlying
basis for the beliefs in "a higher power."

It's the thing many believers point to as their evidence of the
"higher power."

And it's not so simple to define natural processes as mindless things
following their own pattern. There's no way to test and see if the
pattern itself is created or accidental (and thus no way for believers
to use thier evidence in scientific method, but no way for
non-believers to do so, either)

The real rub is the provability of the source of those patterns matter
and natural life both follow. If you succeed in producing experimental
conditions which approximate the patterns sufficiently, and the
experimented-upon matter behaves as in nature, what have you proven
with respect to God?

Think about it!

Rob

--
[You] don't make your kids P.C.-proof by keeping them
ignorant, you do it by helping them learn how to
educate themselves.

-- Orson Scott Card