I admit I am very confused by Fr. Ivo's posts. It is impossible for me to address all his points, so I will just briefly respond to four of them here.
--- "Fr. Ivo Da C. Souza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >*--First, even empirical science, to which he has >committed himself, does not offer us always >objectivity, as Dr.Santosh himself admits. > I don't know what Fr. Ivo is referring to here. But let me just say that if I have admitted anything then it is the fact that science deals in tentative conclusions. Science always tries to offer us objectivity. When there are no objective facts to back a given scientfic hypothesis it regards it as "unproven", and actively considers its alternatives. > >Thirdly, quantum mechanics cannot explain creation of >something from nothing. > Not true at all. It very well can. The Casimir effect is one such instance. In fact, as I have mentioned a couple of times already, experiments on zero-point energy have already shown something emerging from nothing. One of the first such experiments were done by Lamoreaux and Sen. > >Spontaneous generation theory has been superseded. > The old 18th century spontaneous generation theory is obsolete. Several decades of research on chemical evolution of life have shown that large organic and biologically active molecules can be spontaneously generated from simpler inorganic molecules. Modern molecular biology has shown that there are no theoretical barriers to spontaneous self-assembly of macromolecular pathways that constitute and represent life. > >"God not only plays dice. He sometimes throws >them where they can't be seen." > I hope statements like the above by individual scientists are not taken to mean that science has discovered the existence of God. The above statement is purely a metaphorical description of quantum mechanics and hypothesized physical objects such as black holes. Cheers, Santosh
