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Life No Accident
Life is
a mystery.
One can believe, first, that it is an ineluctable attribute of
material existence or, second, that
it began at a definite moment in the past.
On the
first, if Life is inevitable, it can have had no beginning, and therefore
must be some sort of perpetual motion machine, one which has always run and will
continue to run.
But because Science insists that perpetual motion is impossible, it
must reject this approach.
On the
second, if there was a time before Life, the problem is one of origins.
Science does appear to favour this
approach, assigning a Big Bang to kick things off, followed by chemical Good
Luck, which brought Life about.
By
espousing the second point, Science inadvertently acknowledges the logic of the
opening line of Genesis ‘in the beginning’.
But in stubbornly rejecting the
possibility of a Creator to get things started, it guarantees that it will never
solve the mystery. (AP)
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