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    The cyclic universe hypothesis

    Sorry I meant the priest (his full name escapes me, Georges something) who first suggested the 'big bang' although he didn't use that phrase and referred to it poetically as 'a day without yesterday'. Certainly he was a great scientist but I'm sure his theistic convictions motivated his theory...
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    baseless attempt to disprove Reality

    That's very disingenuous of them.
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    baseless attempt to disprove Reality

    As far as I know Darwin didn't address abiogenesis, his main concern was with the gradual and insensible changes modification with descent bestows on varieties of species. He was simply proposing an evolutionary mechanism and quite a convincing one at that.
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    baseless attempt to disprove Reality

    Mendel's studies on inheritance weren't widely known during Darwin's lifetime and were only rediscovered in the early twentieth century. Darwin had his own theory of pangenesis to explain inheritance through gemmules in the bloodstream. He and his very, very interesting cousin Francis Galton...
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    Benevolent god who allows natural selection?

    Well it certainly isn't fair. Modification with descent confers advantage upon some organisms but not others. If natural selection is being guided by the design of an underlying creator (a notion I find laughable) then god is the supreme eugenicist practising cosmic husbandry.
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    The cyclic universe hypothesis

    I don't think it any coincidence that the Expanding Universe was proposed by a Jesuit. I see it as stealth creationism. Interestingly Fred Hoyle who coined the phrase 'Big Bang' to describe the Expanding Universe model was a lifelong proponent of the Steady-State model of the universe. There are...
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    Benevolent god who allows natural selection?

    The anthropomorphic Abrahamic god is a complete fiction. I'd go so far as to call it an offensive lie. The deistic god isn't much better. A prime mover 'uncaused caused' which just sits back and watches (if the worthless thing is even conscious) at the suffering innate in biological life. A just...
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    Benevolent god who allows natural selection?

    Why could a supposed benevolent and omnipotent god not have devised a humane evolutionary mechanism rather than Natural Selection? Natural selection invariably leads to suffering as the fitter organisms prosper at the expense of weaker organisms and competition is fiercest among members of the...
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