> "The second was my own insight that the integrated complexity of life
itself-which is far more complex than the physical Universe-can only be
explained in terms of an Intelligent Source."

Saying "I don't understand it, and it is complex, so it must be the work of
a god."  Is a way for someone to admit defeat and give up on the scientific
approach.

Science is all about testing our ideas, using observable phenomena to find
out which are accurate/correct/true.  So, simply put, if we can test
something, we are doing science.  If we can't, we are philosophizing.  "God"
is not something we can test, and science has nothing to say about gods, as
no one has yet observed any gods.  As science explains more and more, there
are far fewer places for gods to be hiding, but if science worked out
absolutely everything, everyone would go home and simply tend to our bees
and our gardens.

Every time science pushes the boundaries of what we understand outwards, the
hiding places for any possible god get smaller.  This makes some people
nervous, and they attribute malice, saying "Science denies God".  Nope,
science has NOTHING to say about any god.

One of the most complex-looking things one can imagine are the never-ending
fractal patterns of a Mandelbrot set.  One can keep zooming in forever, and
always see more very similar very complex patterns.  Here's an online
viewer:

https://math.hws.edu/eck/js/mandelbrot/MB.html

Yet the equation to generate this seemingly "infinite world"  is very simple
Z_{n+1} = Z_{n^2} + C

(In the above, the parts in brackets preceded by an underscore, are
subscripts, and the caret is the far more familiar indicator of a
superscript for an exponent)

Science says nothing about God, and God says nothing about science, and
that's a deal we can all live with.

             ***********************************************
The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned
LISTSERV(R) list management software.  For more information, go to:
http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html