" How can what the ordinary man on the street contradict this scientific explanation when the ordinary man experiences apparently random events throughout their lives "

Quickly, because the ordinary man never experiences creation as a result of apparently random events, he only experiences destruction. Intelligence and purpose beget order and beauty, but randomness only begets chaos.

Now the die-hard evolutionist comes and says, order and beauty only exist in your head, in truth it's just a big disorder out there. But the die-hard evolutionist misses the simple, logical fact that if "beauty" and "order" only exist in our heads, then so does "disorder" and, for that matter, "heads" themselves. In trying to undermine the believer's position, all the skeptic manages to achieve is to undermine his own.

But you really, really have to read Chesterton; he explains it with far more logic and flair than I possibly can.

• Okay - harvey1 - June 19, 2003 - 14:30 UTC
  • If money is a concern... - villa-lobos - June 19, 2003 - 14:43 UTC
    • Hmm... - harvey1 - June 19, 2003 - 14:50 UTC
      • I know some people have trouble with flowers - villa-lobos - June 19, 2003 - 16:48 UTC
        • Each to their own? - harvey1 - June 19, 2003 - 16:51 UTC
          • Define Flowery - lysithea - June 22, 2003 - 22:28 UTC
            • It can be analyzed - harvey1 - June 22, 2003 - 23:51 UTC
              • Only textbooks eh? - lysithea - June 23, 2003 - 03:00 UTC
                • Nah - harvey1 - June 23, 2003 - 15:30 UTC
              • Please Harv, not in front of the guests - villa-lobos - June 23, 2003 - 13:47 UTC
                • Heraclitus hour - harvey1 - June 23, 2003 - 15:22 UTC
                  • Heraclitus was a fool - villa-lobos - June 23, 2003 - 16:44 UTC
                    • But then we would miss the fight scenes! - lysithea - June 23, 2003 - 17:47 UTC
                    • But - harvey1 - June 23, 2003 - 19:03 UTC
                  • I saw that movie... - lysithea - June 23, 2003 - 17:42 UTC
                    • You didn't like it? - harvey1 - June 23, 2003 - 19:05 UTC
                      • I liked the PMS avenger... - lysithea - June 24, 2003 - 04:02 UTC
              • Alan the foolish sage, or Alan the wise clown? - villa-lobos - June 23, 2003 - 14:26 UTC
                • oops - wrong place - villa-lobos - June 23, 2003 - 14:47 UTC
                  • Aurino said "Mike, to whom everything matters..." - carefuluniverse - June 23, 2003 - 18:42 UTC
                    • A great deal? - lysithea - June 24, 2003 - 04:04 UTC
                • Ain't gonna happen - harvey1 - June 23, 2003 - 15:26 UTC
                • Explain, Aurino. - lysithea - June 23, 2003 - 17:57 UTC
                • Great Post, Aurino!!! - pmartin - June 24, 2003 - 15:34 UTC
• Let Evolutionary Theorists be represented by Darwin at least! - whomi - June 20, 2003 - 00:49 UTC