Not darkness, for that implies an understanding of light. Not silence, for that suggests a familiarity with sound. Not loneliness, for that requires knowledge of others. But still, faintly, so tenuous that if it were any less it wouldn’t exist at all: awareness. Nothing more than that. Just awareness–a vague, ethereal sense of being. Being . . but not becoming. No marking of time, no past or future–only an endless, featureless now, and, just barely there in that boundless moment, inchoate and raw, the dawning of perception . . Robert J. Sawyer
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  1. There is no indisputable proof for the big bang, " said Hollus. "And there is none for evolution. And yet you accept those. Why hold the question of whether there is a creator to a higher standard?
  2. It is either coincidence piled on top of coincidence, " said Hollus, "or it is deliberate design.
  3. No one disputes that seeming order can come out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote the rules?
  4. That natural selection can produce changes within a type is disputed by no one, not even the staunchest creationist. But that it can transform one species into another – that, in fact, has never been observed.
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