We had this topic discussed quite in detail once, a quick draft copied in the following was prepared for 2009 Free Thought convention.
Now this new thread has been started without even mentioning that although it was requested that members are invited to continue this initiative and to help by identfying its mistakes, making corrections and improvements or confirming it as a garbage and deleting it.
The special thing in this try that may be noticed is that only direct universal frequently encountered natural observations has been used and all far fetched or multistep arguments burdonsome on human mind have been avoided. This was an endeaver to revive the Deist style of convincing writing that spreads like wildfire. Thomas Pain seems one of the modern masters of this style. This style always keeps readers attached to the evidences themselves and even the writer slips out of the discussion. Readers feel compelled to face themselves the answers from the evidences that they come across on daily basis or they carry in their instincts, ethics and consciencious hearts. Modern deists need to revive this style.. but it obviously needs much home work that you start writing when you can not control your heart brimming with its call.
Why Deists Acknowledge God? Deists do not care about the names; they focus on how the phenomena witnessed in nature bear signs of attributes of design and Supreme mind. They frequently explain how our human reason and ethics demand that these inferences must be acknowledged.
Deists do not blindly acknowledge any hearsay about nature or the nature’s God. We appeal to open minded free thinking people to look at the evidences of order, coherence, a single, integral organic system and signs of intelligence and think about why should these not point to confirmation of the hypothesis of a Supreme mind behind them. Deists never shy away from looking at anything that has been confirmed from the last 150 years of overall general or specific analytical observations of science. In general they pose a question how the universally attested tender care that humanity receives in the lap everyone affectionately calls Mother Nature could come about without any intention, decision, plan and design?
Blind religious adherents may use the same word God, however one should not be deceived by the words, names, or labels. The attributes of the two conceptions are worlds apart. Deists derive all attributes of the Supreme manager from revealed evidences in His created nature and have been enthusiastic to explain with reasons. False religions do not even give such right to any laymen to ask questions about evidences for the sayings of priests and popes. Their description of their objects of worship, some ungod, with fabricated conflicting attributes can be anything but the Supremely Intelligent, Just, Benevolent, and All Powerful God deists attest. They use their ungod, through forged tales, to indoctrinate humans to dump reason, close their eyes, avoid self-respect and equal status all focused to pick pockets of the laymen.
It is an opportunity to briefly review just some of the reasons why deists are convinced of a Supreme Intelligent Cosmological Management that in short form the name the benevolent God.
A General Overall Observation
Continuous journey towards perfection, the evolution, is universally witnessed. This is ongoing improvement and is not business as usual or just reshuffling, it is development; a continuity in creation, imparting the creation over and above what that they got at creation. How on earth a process which results in the appearance of Socrates can be accepted as random interactions and mindless fluctuations?
An Analytical Examination
Lately each of our body cell is seen as an independent miniature national state with constitutional government through strict law enforcing. Integral to that is the finding that it cannot continue its life function without a control manager, the nucleus. Similarly there is consensus that all our cells in their specific organs coherently function as slaves of a king- our conscious and unconscious mind. Now evidences of order, integral organic working system and signs of intelligence, similar to the living cell and organism when observed in the universe must make a strong case for a control centre with intelligent mind.
Deistic Tradition of Being Humbleness in Submission to Evidences
Newton could easily have touted his intelligence while presenting his theory of gravity that he devised the theory first and found the evidence later in falling apple. He humbly expressed that his close observation of the natural phenomena inspired him the natural law.
Deists try to continue this tradition and bow in respect of evidence and turn wherever it leads.
Scientists learn from nature to split water
August 17, 2008
http://www.zpenergy.com/modules.php?nam ... e&sid=2982
An international team of researchers led by Monash University has used chemicals found in plants to replicate a key process in photosynthesis paving the way to a new approach that uses sunlight to split water into hydrogen and oxygen.
Sustainable Agriculture - What Ants Knew 50 Million Years Before We Did
2008
http://www.scientificblogging.com/news_ ... ars_we_did
Learning from Nature: Flying creatures may help create aviation of future
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/200 ... irds_x.htm
By Alan Levin, USA TODAY
"Learning the secret of flight from a bird was a good deal like learning the secret of magic from a magician." — Orville Wright
On the wings of a dragonfly; the way a dragonfly flies may inspire new aircraft designs.
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/On+the+wi ... -a03891381
To Innovate, Learn from Nature
http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/ti ... e_lea.html
September 10
Nature has had more than 3.8 billion years to perfect its survival strategy. Today, innovators and engineers are applying biomimicry practices to design products and solve engineering problems. For example, carpet manufacturer Interface created its nonglue carpet tiles by studying lizards’ feet.
Airliners could save fuel by taking a hint from birds flying in formation
June 1, 2009 BY EMMANUEL ROMERO
A Stanford simulation of how commercial airliners might fly in formation to save fuel.
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