... Lee Strobel's "The Case for Christ"? He uses the same essential argument regarding the implausibility of life occurring by random chance.
Of course, one could respond to that by observing that however unlikely that science is, it is even more scientifically unlikely that there is a superior (though ethereal) being capable of producing all of this stuff out of nothing.
>> A quick "religious" personal profile. I was baptised and raised Catholic as a child.
Me, too, Bob (confirmation name is John, which I legally added to my name a few years ago when I also added my wife's maiden name ---- my full legal name now is James Thomas John Douglas Reilly! ). My paternal aunt has been a Catholic nun (Daughters of Wisdom) since shortly after I was born.
>> I was an altar boy (don't laugh) for three years, ages 10-12 ...
I wouldn't laugh, Bob, though I never quite made it that far myself. I had a lot of friends who were altar boys.
>> ... could recite most of a mass in Latin and knew what the
>> words meant, well most of them, at the time.
I knew a good bit of the Latin, too.
>> In my mid teens through mid twenties, I questioned many things (who doesn't during
>> that time frame of their lives.) I became a self-proclaimed agnostic during that period.
I went through a similar process, Bob, but remain agnostic to this day.
I'm well, thanks -- hope you are, too.
BTW, I like those jetons -- especially the yellow one! If you ever get tired of it, you can send it to me!
----- jim o\-S
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