Someone once told me ...

[marshlander]

Haha don't apologise, thats the whole point of a debate.

I'm glad you see it this way

... As for the infertility thing, do we know if this has always been an issue throughout time? Or if the growing proportion of couples having fertility issues nowadays is a result of something human-induced such as mobile phones, pollution, global warming ...

Is there a growing proportion? I don't know the figures. If there is, what about oestrogen in drinking water? I'm so glad I don't live in London!

I am a believer in science... but some questions arise such as... when you look at what happens with our DNA. Say a molecule of DNA magically developed through a series of chemical reactions millions of years ago. Now I don't know if it's down to a gap in my knowledge or what, but DNA in order to be copied, has to have bonds broken by an enzyme. The DNA strand then has to be matched up with its RNA partners and then pass through a transcription enzyme and ribosomes and then it has to go through dna helicase enzyme so the bonds form again between the two strands. There is so much specificity there, that it makes me think it can't just be coinsidence... but then I think, well if there were some divine being that sorted it all out... why did they make it so that there can be errors... why did they make such a complex system? So yes... I'm not too sure. Anyway i've gone majorly off topic now...

Personally I feel on slightly safer ground in matters of philosophy than I do in harder science. However, I have read Richard Dawkins who is unequivocal about the lack of necessity for the involvement of supernatural beings in the process. His argument makes a lot of sense to my uninformed intellect. The natural process is very wasteful, but persistent. Eventually something gets through.