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Comment by miohtama | Hacker News Reader

Most people are atheists, because the concept of god was created to explain the world when humans did not have enough knowledge and information for scientific analysis, but this is not the case anymore today. Over centuries, this went away due to inventions of printing press, literature, a lot of basic scientific research and so on.

Also if you read the article it gives you multiple theories how initial proteins formed. No god needed there.

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You appear to be attempting to make a God-of-the-Gaps argument, but you are unaware that "scientific progress" is widening the gap when it comes to the origin of life question.

For example, in Darwin's day it was assumed that the cell was a simple blob containing life-force, but now we have powerful electron microscopes and it turns out that our initial assumptions about how simple life must be were completely wrong.

And yes, I read the article. I've read many such articles. There are a lot of "theories" out there, but none that pass the smell test, although most of them try to snow the unsophisticated reader with a bunch of acronyms and jargon.

You talk about smell tests and unsophisticated dimwits but then you just arbitrarily assume that God made it because it's complex...

...And then, what? Do we write "God made it" in a book and close the case?

You can believe in God and use common sense at the same time.

LOL

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