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"A circle of mostly older colleagues of the Free University of Berlin, who very much reject the tone one finds in today's field of climatology, has asked me to draft a memorandum on the subject and to publish it in the Reports of the German Meteorological Society. Shortened by a half and totally watered down, the memorandum appeared in the last issue. I now take the liberty to bring the original version to your attention.I've deleted the name to protect the source. What follows is the original, un-watered down version of the memorandum - translated in English:
Greetings and cordial asscoication yours, ************ "
We know that we descended from a common ancestor. We know this. Evolution is a fact. Many believers agree about this, even a growing number of evangelicals. But what about the origins of life itself? The answer is simple. Ready? Since the evolution of life has a natural explanation then so also does the origins of life, we just don't know how yet. Give science time. Don't punt to a god explanation just as believers shouldn't have done before Darwin. Comprende?A commenter named formerlutheran responded:
Science has yet to figure out exactly how the first little spark of "life" began, so the honest answer is "don't know, but we are working on it." The apologists trumpet "You don't know, therefore God." The inevitable question is then, "Okay then, where did your God come from?" The apologist answer is, "It is a mystery." (Translation) the apologist is "don't know, but if we can shout loud enough and use really, really big words people won't notice."Loftus then posted a follow-up reply, praising science at the expense of theism:
The difference between the mysterious answer the theist offers and science is that theists have no way to solve that mystery, which has remained a mystery from the beginning and will always remain a mystery. Science however, has a method and just might figure it out.Another commenter named Luiz Fernando Zandra posed another objection to the theory of Intelligent Design:
Let's not forget that we can't argue for the fine-tuning argument and for a miraculous origin of life. If we need a miracle for life to start in this universe, then the universe is not fine tuned for life. Period. If the desire of the believer is to support the idea that the universe is fine tuned for life in order to produce evidence for a designer, then he must abandon the idea that life can't occur naturally.In this short post, I'd like to set the record straight.
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