A quick response

I would like to write a quick response to a specific statement in Kurt's
post:"To be scientific is to keep asking questions. To have faith is to stop asking questions."

I disagree sir. The degree to which faith causes you to stop asking questions depends heavily on your specific faith. For example, the Greek Orthodox church encourages questioning of everything while southern evangelicals (again, Kansas seems a good mutual target) take you out back and beat the evil out of you with a literal interpretation of the Bible and an overhead projector normally used for music lyrics for asking questions.

Ultimately, if God is indeed powerful enough to create the universe, he should be able to handle a few questions.

Here is an interesting hypothetical situation: If we were to make contact with an alien civilization which had been completely isolated from our own, and they had the exact same Bible (or Torah, or "insert other Holy Book here") that we do, where would that fall in the hierarchy of evidence for the existence of God?

I will post a response to the specifics of biological thermodynamics(hooray for med school, I may be able to intelligently contribute to this part of the debate) later today. But for now, food!