Hello WG1,

You write: “Wait a second! The problem here is that you are trying to put all the scientists in the same box! Many non-traditional scientists like myself and many others do NOT fit in that box. We fully acknowledge that the forces are already here... “

Sorry about that. I inadvertently used a sweeping and thereby misleading generalisation.
So all of you who feel I unjustly put you in the wrong 'box' can now climb out of it

You write: “In terms of creating life from "inert pea soup", I have no idea what you mean by that?”

Ah, confused memory problem, I’m afraid. I was harping back to the days when we lay persons were told that there was a long, long time ago a primordial (I used the word ‘pea’ by mistake ) ‘soup’ of chemicals that got hit by lightening, or some such, and Voila! There was Life.
I expect that the current thinking is a lot more sophisticated than that, but still essentially the same thing - i.e. Life originated through a series of chance/random events.

You write: “IMHO it all depends on the definition of GOD!"

Hmmm. Sticky one, that. I suppose it depends heavily on whether one is religious or not.
Being secular (most of the time ) I think in terms of Intelligent Nature – an intelligence that is not (in my view) at all anthropomorphic. I would argue (rather cautiously) that this is not the same as believing in a God.

Regards,

Alex




Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/19/2005 06:12AM by Alex S.