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A Physicist and a Rabbi disagree with a Journalist

RAMOSS said:
It's truth is evident, like 2^4=16. It shows that life cannot arise naturally from non-life.
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I find when someone say 'Truth is evident', they can't show it to be true. Thank you for avoiding the answers, and showing you have nothing except mindless rhetoric.[/QUOTE]


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Somerville said:
On Christmas Day, the Wall Street Journal posted a piece written by Eric Metaxas, "author, speaker and TV host" in which he argues that science is coming closer and closer to "proving" the existence of a Creator. This has caused a bit of a kerfuffle on the internets, to say the least.

One man who disagrees, does so from the religious side of the question: Rabbi Geoffrey A. Mitelman

another who disagrees, this time from the science side, is Lawrence Krauss, Physics professor at Arizona State University my emphasis
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I participated pretty heavily in that WSJ String as a commenter. (still ongoing)
I believe it was the most commented on article ever: over 5000 posts and counting.
A crazy affair that brought out the wackiness of a few on the Right who are also social conservatives, creationists, YECers.
Some lamented the state of affairs/that the paper had gone 'creationist' in the editorial, and at least another this summer.

There are plenty of Blog Refutations
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1. More Creationism in the Wall Street Journal | The Sensuous Curmudgeon
More Creationism in the WSJ
26-Dec-2014
We’re getting increasingly worried about the Wall Street Journal. A few years ago we wrote Wall Street Journal: Are They Creationists?..'
Now they’ve done it again with a column by Eric Metaxas.

2. Christian Author Makes Fine-Tuning Argument for God’s Existence in The Wall Street Journal
Christian author makes Fine-tuning argument for god's existence in WSJ - Dec 27, 2014
In a Christmas Day opinion piece (behind a paywall) for The Wall Street Journal, Christian author Eric Metaxas explained that science proved God because of an argument that’s been DEBUNKED so many times over, you have to really work hard to pretend rebuttals don’t exist.​

and I believe Krauss' may be published by the WSJ.

And I posted this direct contradiction of it last Year.

Billions Far-Off Planets Like the Earth Dot the Galaxy
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/05/s...ets-that-could-be-like-earth.html?src=me&_r=0

The known odds of something — or someone — living far, far away from Earth IMPROVED beyond Astronomers’ boldest Dreams on Monday.
Astronomers reported that there could be as many as 40 billion habitable Earth-size planets in the galaxy, based on a new analysis of data from NASA’s Kepler spacecraft.

One out of every five sunlike stars in the galaxy has a planet the size of Earth circling it in the Goldilocks zone — not too hot, not too cold — where surface temperatures should be compatible with liquid water... “It seems that the universe produces Plentiful real estate for life that somehow resembles life on Earth,”
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IOW, app 40 Billion Planets in our Galaxy x 200 Billion Galaxies = 8 TRILLION Earth like planets.
So I don't think scientist are at all forlorn about the possibility of other life.
 
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