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> However, it's perfectly possible to be a good scientist AND 
> be religious.  My view is that if there is/was a god, and I 
> were that god, then I'd be far happier coming up with a neat 
> labour-saving hack like evolution and the hypothetical 
> Genetic Algorithm-style multiuniverse model (ie. building a 
> mechanism for trying out all possible permutations and 
> combinations of constants until one works), than having to 
> micromanage each sodding event that happens since I pressed 
> the "Play" button.

If there is indeed a supreme being who cooked up a Algorithm-style
multiuniverse gizmo, do we have any idea whether ours is a success or a
failure? 

And what's to say this supreme being wasn't doing a primary school science
project -- one which earned a failing grade?



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