Re:Religious awe (Score 1)

The feeling of religious awe when looking at something with the beauty and complexity of DNA is the same regardless of your belief in God or lack thereof.

I totally agree with you. Awe comes from seeing that is so incredibly well designed. You are right, you don't have to believe in God to appreciate it. The original authors quote was:

Show me a religion that is willing to change its belief in a supernatural being after centuries of mounting evidence to explain away the mysteries that underpinned such superstition.

This guy makes the mistaken assumption that the evidence rules out the possibility that God exists. I just think that is a very faulty "leap of faith"

Assigning "miracle status" to DNA gets logically messy since if DNA is so "special" that God must have developed it, then who developed the "special" God.

There's another kind of ballsy assumptions that many people make, that they have the ability to comprehend something sophisticated enough to make them. Kind of like the pot really understanding what a potter is. So to me, if God is smart enough to put together DNA, am I smart enough to comprehend him? There are thousands of PhDs studying molecular biology, and they've barely scratched the surface of how it all works. Complexity does NOT generally come from randomness. Randomness leads to randomness.

Scientific dogma says nothing about the existence of God.

Agreed, it shouldn't. Science is completely about observing that which is. It's ironic, however, that some of the first scientists were Christians. Before them, the Greeks and Romans had a very random type of cosmology. The first scientists felt that because God created an ordered world, it was worthy of being studied, and that there would be a rational link between cause and effect.

Unfortunately, the scientific dogmatists since the "Great Awakening" (may have that name wrong, I'm not a history buff) have slid into the trap of thinking that since they can see how things fit together, they can effectively say there is no root cause, and therefore, there is no God. Thus the original authors fallacious assumption that those who acknowledge God's presence are somehow foolish or stupid. Thus the T-Shirt comment!

It's just that as far as explaining how the Universe works, God is considered irrelevant.

That's too bad. That's like saying something like "Linux is great, but Linus and the open source community are irrelevant", when in fact they are not irrelevant, and want to make a really good thing that serves a lot of folks.