beyond reasonable doubt? week 2 - creation. there is something! it works and it is beautiful

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beyond reasonable doubt?week 2 - creation

there is something! it works and it is beautiful.

there is something! it works and it is beautiful.

there is something! it works and it is beautiful.

issues to consider

• the ‘fine-tuning of the universe

Francis Collins revealed that combative atheist Richard Dawkins admitted to him during a conversation that the most troubling argument for nonbelievers to counter is the fine-tuning of the universe.

other issues to consider

• the ‘fine-tuning’ of the universe• evolution as religion

How could it have come about that groups of anthropoid apes developed the amazing morphological complexity of a single sentence, let alone the whole grammatical mystery which has engaged Chomsky and others in our lifetime and linguists for time out of mind?

other issues to consider

• the ‘fine-tuning’ of the universe• evolution as religion• the inhuman cruelty of atheistic

evolution

[Anything which] is a living and not a dying body... will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive to grow, spread, seize, become predominant - not from any morality or immorality but because it is living and because life simply is will to power... 'Exploitation'... belongs to the essence of what lives, as a basic organic function; it is a consequence of the will to power, which is after all the will to life.

other issues to consider

• the ‘fine-tuning’ of the universe• evolution as religion• the inhuman cruelty of atheistic

evolution

beyond reasonable doubt?week 2 - creation