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To: Neocon who wrote (782)	3/2/2002 9:57:42 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

The creation of apparent order works well enough if you are talking about juxtaposition over the vastness of time, but not if you are talking about complex systems. You are assuming that a nearly infinite number of random juxtapositions, spread over an almost incomprehensible time span, cannot create complex systems. I have seen no evidence to support this assumption. It is ridiculous to posit that because sequential randomness did not produce a clock, a laptop computer, or a Harley Davidson motorcycle it cannot possibly have produced something more complex than any of those. Why assume they would make a puppy? Because we see puppies, and no other credible assumption to explain their existence. There is a great deal about the process that we do not understand. Making the jump from there to the assumption of a creator is on a level with making the jump from not understanding lightning to assuming that a thunder-god is flinging bolts down from the top of Mt. Olympus.