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Is it so hard to believe that there's a creator maybe?
Who/what created the creator then? And please don't say "the creator has always been there", because the same could be said about a universe to make a creator redundant...
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Not if there's evidence of one, no. Why, do you have some?
The existence of the universe itself
This is one in a number of papers exploring how biological phase separation/condensation may have provided favourable microenvironments for early life development. For a nice primer on what biological phase separation is, see this (non-paywalled) general audience article from earlier this year in Nature ( https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-03070-2 ). Some other work on phase separation as a means for primordi…
A Phase Separation Model for Transcriptional Control. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28340338
which already has 70 citations despite being published just 14 months ago.
Any guesses when this will happen? Life springing up in a 2D-Automata or something like that? What size will it be? How many cells does the smallest self reproducing 2D-Automata need?
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It’s not hard to “believe”, but it’s impossible to prove. Theological debates usually end up with the creationist position being that belief without proof equals faith, there for proof is not desired. Science is skepticism, religion is unquestionable; the two are opposites.
Religion isn't unquestionable, doubt is a key to faith. There's an entire academic discipline devoted to critically studying the divine, theology. That is not an excuse for avoiding and denying any insight into creation or trying to fill the gap with gods of course. I strongly disagree with the thread starter's sentiment
I investigated this in a simulation 8 years ago, link here and a paper in the description https://youtu.be/UVyTu3o2A9U