... way, that the Tree of Life created itself. Not in a miraculous, instantaneous whoosh, but slowly, slowly, over billions of years.[v] Even the laws of physics, he suggests, "could themselves be the outcome of a blind, uncaring shuffle through Chaos."[vi] In reply to Dawkins and Dennett I would argue that materialism ... theories. In that interpretation, a range of possibilities is present in the world. If quantum events are not completely determined by the laws of physics, their final determination might be made directly by God. What appears to be chance -- which atheists use as an argum...

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... evidences cited today which mathematically defy atheism include the Anthropic Principle and the discovery of irreducibly complex biological systems. The Anthropic Principle is a term used to describe the discovery that physics is not as straightforward cause-and-effect as it once seemed. It describes the discovery that "the existence of life in the universe depends upon a highly improbably but precise balance ... initial conditions, which by no means are what they are as a result of necessity in the study of their efficient cause: essentially these numbers are "features of the laws [of ph...

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