"Stephen Harris"  wrote 

> I will answer #4 since that is easy.

> > 4) Ignore the fact that chance is not causative.
> 
> "To personify 'chance' as if we were talking about 
> a causal agent,"notes biophysicist Donald M. MacKay, 
> "is to make an illegitimate switch, a SCIENTIFIC to 
> a quasi-religious MYTHOLOGICAL concept."

Yep.  (It almost seems that myself and MacKay have 
plagarized one another.)

> Similarly,Robert C. Sproul points out:" By calling 
> the unknown cause 'chance' for so long, people began 
> to forget that a substitution was made .......The 
> assumption that 'chance equals an unknown cause' has 
> come to mean for many that 'chance equals cause.'"

Exactly.

> Not only do respectable scientists and philosophers 
> deny that chance is causative,

I agree.  "God does not play dice with the universe," 
Albert Einstein.

Jim
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