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Author Topic:   Why is Evolution at odds with Christianity?
mark24
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Message 28 of 56 (49587)
08-09-2003 11:49 AM
Reply to: Message 25 by paul nicholson
08-09-2003 10:00 AM


Paul N,
I would like to give you another example of the probabilitry of random mutations actually occuring.
The probability is 1. They occur.
Take the human skeleton. I read somewhere that we have about 200 bones. Sounds about right. What is the chance that just 10 of these bones would miraculously (sarcasm not intended) fall into place.Mathemeticians please help me. I think it would be 1 in 512 or a 50/50 cance for 2 bones ,a one in 4 chance for 3 bones etc. Keep going with this calculation for all 200 bones and you have an incredible figure. Or you could take a 200 piece jig saw puzzle and tip it on your lounge floor hoping that all the pieces would fall into place. You could keep doing this for a long time millions of years even and I cant imagine it happening. Now we havent talked about our muscular system or our heart and lungs and nervous system or our brain yet.All incredibly complex as any scientist will tell you. Maybe we should have 10 or more people all with 200 piece puzzles each representing one feature of the human body. They all tip the pieces out simultaneously and we wait for the day that all of the puzzles form correctly at the same time. You can safely say thet it will never happen. It would take only blind faith to believe that it could happen. And yet many people mock Christians for their blind faith. Who is believing the impossible??
Colossal strawman. This is a misrepresentation of what evidence suggests occurs. We never zapped into existence in that way, hence your argument is logically flawed.
If a human body can evolve then why cant a swiss watch?
Can swiss watches reproduce? No? It can't evolve then. Well, that was easy!
Arguments of this nature are fairly easily dispatched, they produce no empirical evidence, & are logically flawed, which is why they aren't taken seriously.
Mark
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Occam's razor is not for shaving with.

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mark24
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Posts: 3857
From: UK
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Message 52 of 56 (50109)
08-12-2003 8:34 AM
Reply to: Message 36 by paul nicholson
08-11-2003 9:01 AM


Paul N,
Hi Mark 24, You may not take my argument seriously but you will take God seriously when you face him one day.
You are going to get testicular cancer & die horribly if you don't accept my argument, if you are married, your wife will suffer horrific ovarian cysts that will explode in slow motion.
Do you see why I'm not taking your vile threat seriously? But since you bring up Pascals wager, it's only reasonable to point out that an appeal to force is yet another logical flaw in your reasoning.
Do you really have nothing substantive to respond to message 28 with?
You purported to to have refuted evolution based on odds, that argument is flawed, it is based upon a misrepresentation of the ToE.
Mark
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"I can't prove creationism, but they can't prove evolution. It is [also] a religion, so it should not be taught....Christians took over the school board and voted in creationism. That can be done in any school district anywhere, and it ought to be done." Says Kent "consistent" Hovind in "Unmasking the False Religion of Evolution Chapter 6."
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