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Author Topic:   No Abiogenesis, no Evolution, then what?
robinrohan
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Message 91 of 173 (251203)
10-12-2005 3:53 PM
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10-08-2005 10:02 AM


Re: Some alternatives
we don't need an "uncreated" thing
Yes, we do. Either some universe or God.

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Message 92 of 173 (251206)
10-12-2005 3:59 PM


Let's remember the original premises in the OP folk.
Please let's discuss this based on those conditions. Try to provide reasoned support for your positions.
This thread has had some interesting speculation so far, let's not resort to just trading assertions.

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    DBlevins
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    Message 93 of 173 (251249)
    10-12-2005 5:53 PM
    Reply to: Message 60 by Faith
    10-08-2005 12:14 AM


    Re: Some alternatives
    Except that the way we know about God is through revelation (though some are smart enough to see Him in His creation), and revelation tells us that He is uncreated. No infinite regression of the Biblical God.
    That is probably the oldest and most incredible assertion ever!
    Revelation is written by a group of people who didn't know where diseases came from, that the sun is the source of daylight, that humans can't walk on water, etc.
    That you take the word of a roughly 2000 year old collection of myth's written by people who believe in magic and think the world is flat, over the word of evidence based methodological naturalism is mind boggling. That you can make such bald-faced assertions with no evidence except your own credulity, sets my head spinning.
    I'm happy that you're happy with your beliefs but if you're going to come on and spout out nonsense, please be kind enough to add a disclaimer to the bottom of your post. Otherwise I'd be unable to tell if you're joking.
    I wonder if these poeple who are smart enough to see Him in His creation are the same one's who believe demons cause farting.
    :rollseyes:

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    inkorrekt
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    Message 94 of 173 (290058)
    02-24-2006 11:20 AM
    Reply to: Message 6 by Asgara
    10-06-2005 10:37 PM


    What is the other option?
    How many people have difficulty in assembling a puzzle? I am sure there are a lot. If this simple process requires intelligence, how could you imgine a lot, lot, lot, lot more complex structures like the cell just be brought into existence without any external power?
    Man can not even understand the complexity of the living cell.
    If it is not God, then who? Is it an alien from Mars? Superman? Computer programmer? Geneticist? Architect?
    Man attempted to create life for more than 200 years. All that he ended up with was a soup of chemicals which were no more useful.

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    nwr
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    Message 95 of 173 (290069)
    02-24-2006 11:55 AM
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    02-24-2006 11:20 AM


    Re: What is the other option?
    How many people have difficulty in assembling a puzzle? I am sure there are a lot. If this simple process requires intelligence, how could you imgine a lot, lot, lot, lot more complex structures like the cell just be brought into existence without any external power?
    The analogy is bad.
    A bird builds a nest. I expect that takes some intelligence, but not a lot. We could consider it a puzzle, take it apart, and examine the complexity of getting every piece back into exactly the same position. But the bird never needed to solve that complex puzzle. It can put the pieces back together in a different arrangement and it would still work as a nest.
    Maybe there are many different ways of building something that functions as a cell. Maybe the cell itself evolved from something far simpler.

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    Chiroptera
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    Message 96 of 173 (290093)
    02-24-2006 12:31 PM
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    02-24-2006 11:20 AM


    Re: What is the other option?
    quote:
    how could you imgine a lot, lot, lot, lot more complex structures like the cell just be brought into existence without any external power?
    My body started out as a single cell. So that is billions of cells that were brought into existence without any "external power".
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    Man attempted to create life for more than 200 years.
    No one has yet attempted to create life. Victor Frankenstein was a fictional character.

    "Intellectually, scientifically, even artistically, fundamentalism -- biblical literalism -- is a road to nowhere, because it insists on fidelity to revealed truths that are not true." -- Katha Pollitt

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    kongstad
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    Message 97 of 173 (290282)
    02-25-2006 9:24 AM
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    02-24-2006 12:31 PM


    Re: What is the other option?
    Well actually Frankenstein only reanimated dead tissue - the only creation involved was sewing together limps of the dead.

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    inkorrekt
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    Message 98 of 173 (292558)
    03-05-2006 11:13 PM
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    02-24-2006 11:55 AM


    Re: What is the other option?
    Bird is building a nest. This is a learned behaviour. You can also call it as a response to the environment. It could also be Stimulus-response. My anology is not wrong. I have already given the analogy of the computer. i am not going to repeat this.

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    nwr
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    Message 99 of 173 (292572)
    03-06-2006 12:11 AM
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    03-05-2006 11:13 PM


    Re: What is the other option?
    My anology is not wrong. I have already given the analogy of the computer. i am not going to repeat this.
    I'm glad that you are not going to repeat it.
    Nevertheless, the puzzle analogy is bad. Treating it as a puzzle assumes that there is only one way that there could be a living cell. But you have given no argument or evidence to support that assumption.

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    inkorrekt
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    Message 100 of 173 (293090)
    03-07-2006 6:21 PM
    Reply to: Message 99 by nwr
    03-06-2006 12:11 AM


    Re: What is the other option?
    Why is this bad and how? In nature, we have 3 dimentional models. I gave the analogy of the puzzle because, i could not find anything much simpler than this. The bottom line, is even in order to assemble apuzzle, some basic intelligence is necessary. If aperson does it continuously, then he develops the learned behaviour. Learning is a function of intelligence.

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    Chiroptera
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    Message 101 of 173 (293098)
    03-07-2006 6:36 PM
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    03-07-2006 6:21 PM


    Re: What is the other option?
    The analogy is bad because cells are not puzzles that are put together from pre-existing pieces out of a box.

    "Intellectually, scientifically, even artistically, fundamentalism -- biblical literalism -- is a road to nowhere, because it insists on fidelity to revealed truths that are not true." -- Katha Pollitt

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    NosyNed
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    Message 102 of 173 (293104)
    03-07-2006 7:13 PM
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    03-07-2006 6:21 PM


    Puzzle solving
    The analogy is bad because it is perfectly possible to assemble a puzzle with pure trail and error and no intelligence at all. The physical nature of the pieces is such that they fit (shape and color) or not. Any mechanism which allows for that trail and error can solve it without any intelligence.
    The evolutionary model describes just such a mechanism for biological organisms. That is huge numbers of trails are made; many, many errors and some successes which are "kept" just as puzzle pieces that fit are kept.
    Your analogy is not useful in any way to attack the evolutionary model.

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    nwr
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    Message 103 of 173 (293116)
    03-07-2006 8:56 PM
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    03-07-2006 6:21 PM


    Re: What is the other option?
    The bottom line, is even in order to assemble apuzzle, some basic intelligence is necessary.
    But we still are not dealing with puzzle solving. In a typical puzzle, there is a fixed set of components, and a unique way to successfully put them together. For abiogenesis, there were many components and many possible ways to successfully put them together.
    If aperson does it continuously, then he develops the learned behaviour.
    Self reproducing life only had to arise once. It didn't have to be done continuously. If it occurred once by random combinations, that was sufficient.
    In any case, the topic we are supposed to be discussing is whether there are alternatives to abiogenesis. Let's get back on topic.

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    inkorrekt
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    Message 104 of 173 (293478)
    03-08-2006 8:57 PM
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    03-07-2006 8:56 PM


    Re: What is the other option?
    For abiogenesis, there were many components and many possible ways to successfully put them together
    I gave the example of a puzzle to explain intelligent activity. This analogy has nothing ot do with a biogenesis.

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    inkorrekt
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    Message 105 of 173 (293480)
    03-08-2006 9:03 PM
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    03-07-2006 6:36 PM


    Re: What is the other option?
    I do not think so. This analogy was given only to demonstrate that self assembly of proteins cannot occur and they do nto occur.

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