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Exploring a vision of the world, universe or multi-verse as a Godless Accident.
A vision of the beauty created by simple systems in Nature
without the need for an author or designer of life.
Neither Nature nor you has any need to pay a designer any royalties or homage.
A naturalistic view of the world without super natural beings or super natural forces of any kind.
Any claims of supernatural beings, entities, Gods or supernatural forces require extraordinary proof.
Heck, that applies to cosmological, physics and other scientific theories as well.
An objective and evidence based as possible view of Nature and Reality as Human Beings can possibly have.
GodlessAccident.com is a playful spin on the characterization of Real Nature that God Fearing Folk fear.

The "Magic Gravity Elves" Theory Of Gravity, Dec 27th, 2004
The article I Think We Should Teach The "Magic Gravity Elves" Theory Alongside The Theory Of Gravity is an excellent article. It takes Mark Landsbaum and his article, "Darwinism fails true tests", to task for glaring mistakes in critical thinking, not that Mark's article has any in it.
Things are scientific or they aren't. There is no sliding scale of "more scientific" or "less scientific". [Intelligent Design] ID is not scientific. Evolutionary biology is scientific. It is also not called "Darwinian Evolution" except by creationist godwhacks like Mark. Darwin was undeniably the father of the science of evolutionary biology, but his theory is not the only theory out there and it's about 150 years out of date. Another thing; Only creationists say things like "unproven theory". Read this very carefully Mark: No theory can EVER be "proved" or "disproved". Proof only exists is mathematics because we create and know every, single part of the "universe" that our mathematics systems exist within. Because we do not know every part of our own physical universe, we cannot "prove" anything. What we can do, however, is support a theory with enough evidence so that it can be considered to be true.
-Brent Rasmussen
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Researchers provide concrete evidence about how the human eye evolved, Nov 1st, 2004
When Darwin's skeptics attack his theory of evolution, they often focus on the eye. Darwin himself confessed that it was "absurd" to propose that the human eye, an "organ of extreme perfection and complication" evolved through spontaneous mutation and natural selection. But he also reasoned that "if numerous gradations from a simple and imperfect eye to one complex and perfect can be shown to exist" then this difficulty should be overcome. Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory [EMBL] have now tackled Darwin's major challenge in an evolutionary study published this week in the journal Science. They have elucidated the evolutionary origin of the human eye.
The mystery of eye evolution
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Simple Systems Influence in the Evolution of Life, July 11th, 2004
The origins of biological complexity have been debated since antiquity. For a long time it was assumed that the magnitude of the complexity was so great that it could never have arisen from any ordinary natural process, and therefore must have been inserted from outside through some kind of divine plan. However, with the publication of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species in 1859 it became clear that there were natural processes that could in fact shape features of biological organisms.
   - Stephen Wolfram.
"The very simplest rules will just give simple behavior... But what the Principle of Computational Equivalence says is that if one looks at just a few more rules, one will suddenly cross a threshold - and end up with maximal computational sophistication."
  - Stephen Wolfram.
Intelligent Design advocates say that a tree or a person are too complex to have naturally evolved and therefor that there must be a designer, namely their God. With simple systems proven to be able to generate complexity with maximal sophistication the Intelligent Design argument crumbles into the dust heap of history. It looks like the Intelligent Design folks are out of luck and must face the beautiful music of a Godless Accident.

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The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design, July 11th, 2004
One of the most famous arguments of the creationist theory of the universe is the eighteenth-century theologian William Paley's: Just as a watch is too complicated and too functional to have sprung into existence by accident, so too must all living things, with their far greater complexity, be purposefully designed. But as Richard Dawkins, professor of zoology at Oxford University, demonstrates in this brilliant and eloquent riposte to the Argument from Design, the analogy is false. Natural selection, the unconscious, automatic, blind yet essentially non-random process that Darwin discovered, has no purpose in mind. If it can be said to play the role of watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker.
The Blind Watchmater by Richard Dawkins
I look forward to reading this book.

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Ugliness is in the Eye of the Beholder!, July 9th, 2004

In "The Gods Must Be Tidy" Jonathan Witt states his view that:
“The Scouring of the Shire” near the end of J. R. R. Tolkien’s "The Lord of the Rings" is a "shabby bit of evil".
It's obvious that Witt is the one seeing the evil.

What I see in Tolkien's message is that even when we prevail in larger battles against organized "evil" such as the Nazis the war and death can and often does continue elsewhere. There are many wars preceeding on our Real Earth right now. When we get caught up in other things, such as victory, others who could use our help can suffer. The fictional Hobbits could have used the help of men in their battle to save the Shire. To me Tolkien's message is clear, don't let your guard down for those who wish to control the masses and cause death and destruction are not stopping. Just look what many Governments are currently doing in the "name of good and god" to see the "evil" that men do in the world.

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Who Designed and Created The Designer?, July 9th, 2004
One of the questions that Intelligent Design (ID) supporters avoid and fail to answer is "who designed and created their designer?"

Another way to say it is that having a "designer" doesn't answer the question of how the universe came to be since a designer must have had a designer. So, the creationists and ID folks simply ignore anwsering the question as their answer.

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Children Murdered by Parents Beliefs, July 9th, 2004
In this scary and heart breaking story, "They were simply practicing their religious beliefs and are being punished unfairly", we learn that three children have died at the hands of one church congregation's beliefs and supersititions. If you think that beliefs can't kill innnocents then think again.

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The Tyranny of Design, July 9th, 2004
"We are accustomed to thinking of ourselves as peaks of perfection, and the arrangements of more "primitive" creatures as similar to our own, only cruder. It's a nice idea. Until along comes the sea lamprey to challenge our preconceptions." - The Tyranny of Design (Nature Magazine - subscription now required).
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Inspired Act of Godless Creation, July 9th, 2004
GodlessAccident.com was inspired by the article "What but design of darkness to apall?" from "The Panda's Thumb". In particular it was inspired by the follownig comment by Intelligent Design advocate Jonathan Witt who seems to view the universe without God as ugly.
"... I want to suggest that Darwinism-in which I include its DNA-inspired mutation, neo-Darwinism-has contributed to this will to ugliness not merely by underwriting a vision of the world as a godless accident, but also in the very way it critiques and thereby dismisses the idea of an Author and Designer of life."
- The Gods Must Be Tidy
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