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In article <Bz4n8I.CAp@world.std.com> jcf@world.std.com (Joseph C Fineman) writes:

>Whether the universe had an intelligent creator is just as much a
>scientific question as whether a plate of cookies had an intelligent
>creator. 

It might be, if you explain what a creator is. In fact with many
definitions of creation, these questions have the _same_ answer. The
point is that many people take the view that the baker is not creating
the cookies any more than the potter creates the plate, but that both
of these people are _transforming_ matter which previously exists.

Adler's book _Aristotle for everybody_ goes over this in detail.

> The difference, aside from scale, is that the answer is
>probably no. 

Umm, what is the basis for this probability?

> Is there a newsgroup on anthropics, tho?

sci.philosophy.meta

Later,
Andrew Mullhaupt