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I realize that, if it was it would be proof of God. It's pretty easy to imagine how a light sensitive patch of cells could develop a signaling system with movement/nerve cells to provide an evolutionary advantage, and eventually become an eye.


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This is the problem I have - It's easy to imagine lots of things, so what? I am told these beliefs are made with scientific knowledge behind them.

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Here's the thing. If "God" were tinkering with the universe, his magical tricks would be indistinguishable from natural events for which there are shortfalls in scientific explanation.

Therefore, magical tricks performed by "God" can never prove the existence of God. Neither can science ever prove God is not performing such magical tricks as long as science has any shortfalls in its ability to explain everything. Science cannot find evidence For Divine magic tricks. Science can only expand scientific explanation. There is no reason for science to say anything one way or the other about the possibilty of Divine magic tricks taking place in the gaps of scientific explantion. That is a Religious issue, not a scientific one.

If Religious people want to believe Divine magic tricks take place in the gaps of scientific explanation that's their perogative. However they are wrong to say a scientific shortfall implies Divine magic tricks. It doesn't. And Religious people are especially foolish when they assert the existence of Divine magic tricks in scientific gaps that are likely to be filled in the near future. They can do so if they wish, and maybe the gaps won't be filled so quickly, if at all. But regardless it remains a Religious assertion.

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