sam harris
Out of context: Reply #100
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blueOne: I understand. Of course I'm compelled to respond, you know. The difficulty is that matter has never been shown to self-organize into life. It's an unwarranted myth. Even the Miller_Urey experiments, with the vigorous intervention of intelligent scientists, couldn't do it. This fact combined with the specificity of living systems, smacks of something different. Something cognizant. And if we apply Occams' Razor, the best explanation is a designing intelligence. Because in every realm of experience we have, intelligence is behind life. Biogenesis is an established fact - life comes from life. Additionally, you end up with an endless regress of finite causes if you opt for some sort of material explanation. This is logical suicide.
The inference to intelligence is warranted from every direction.