Intelligent Design vs. Casino Universe

farmerman wrote:

How do you know that the planet was Intelligently Designed??"

1. Within a radius of 2000 AU around us there is nothing that is even resembling the Earth.

2. The orbit of the Earth in the SS is so precisely adjusted in a safe window in terms of Jupiter and Uranus not to be perturbed that it is highly improbable for this to have happened by chance (the probability for this is less than 10^-12) .

3. The CO2 processing - the Earth is the only known planet that has succeeded to reverse the CO2 accumulation in the air (not for so long, unfortunately).

4. Stochastic events cannot form a long term tendency in one direction. What is the probability to hit 230 million times successively reds in a roulette?

5. The process of photosynthesis is so complex and so sophisticated that it could hardly have emerged by accidental event. It resembles much more precise computational design.
6. You don't have any plausible and convincing explanation - neither for the intelligence of our CNS, nor for the intelligence of the tissues at metabolic level.

7. If we are all originating from worms, why the present-day worms have remained unevolved for decades of million years ... and the other worms evolved by evolution. How does that happen?

There is no such thing as species. It's a myth generated by taxonomists intended to wow you and generate income.

Even if there's only one inhabitable planet in each galaxy it's been estimated that there must be at least four quadrillion of us

And where are the TV shows and the radio communications of those 'four quadrillion'.

And where are the TV shows and the radio communications of those 'four quadrillion'. Can you give an example of at least one ILF known (besides us)?

Where are those alien animals and alien ILFs? Where is everybody - where are they ... and where are we?

AND, I must reiterate that Evolution IS NOT A STOCHASTIC PROCESS, no matter what you say

It seems to me that it is. What evidence have you that it isn't? Leaving out the attentions of a designer.

When I speak of the importance of scientific method in regard to the conduct of human life, I am thinking of scientific method in its mundane forms. Not that I would undervalue science as a metaphysic, but the value of science as metaphysic belongs in another sphere. It belongs with religion and art and love, with the pursuit of the beatific vision, with the Promethean madness that leads the greatest men to strive to become gods. Perhaps the only ultimate value of human life is to be found in this Promethean madness. But it is a value that is religious , not political, or even moral.

(Your English still sucks, too--you wanted a question mark at the end of that sentence.)

I got a half a cord of wood split and stacked.

Russell never admitted his atheism among his philosophical peers .

I never know whether I should say "Agnostic" or whether I should say "Atheist". It is a very difficult question and I daresay that some of you have been troubled by it. As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as an Agnostic, because I do not think that there is a conclusive argument by which one prove that there is not a God.

On the other hand, if I am to convey the right impression to the ordinary man in the street I think I ought to say that I am an Atheist, because when I say that I cannot prove that there is not a God, I ought to add equally that I cannot prove that there are not the Homeric gods.

None of us would seriously consider the possibility that all the gods of homer really exist, and yet if you were to set to work to give a logical demonstration that Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, and the rest of them did not exist you would find it an awful job. You could not get such proof.

Therefore, in regard to the Olympic gods, speaking to a purely philosophical audience, I would say that I am an Agnostic. But speaking popularly, I think that all of us would say in regard to those gods that we were Atheists. In regard to the Christian God, I should, I think, take exactly the same line.