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Author | Topic: No Abiogenesis, no Evolution, then what? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
robinrohan Inactive Member |
we don't need an "uncreated" thing Yes, we do. Either some universe or God.
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AdminJar Inactive Member |
Please let's discuss this based on those conditions. Try to provide reasoned support for your positions.
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DBlevins Member (Idle past 3797 days) Posts: 652 From: Puyallup, WA. Joined: |
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 Member (Idle past 6103 days) Posts: 382 From: Westminster,CO, USA Joined: |
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 Member Posts: 6409 From: Geneva, Illinois Joined: Member Rating: 5.3 |
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 Inactive Member |
quote: My body started out as a single cell. So that is billions of cells that were brought into existence without any "external power". -
quote: 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 Member (Idle past 2891 days) Posts: 175 From: Copenhagen, Denmark Joined: |
Well actually Frankenstein only reanimated dead tissue - the only creation involved was sewing together limps of the dead.
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inkorrekt Member (Idle past 6103 days) Posts: 382 From: Westminster,CO, USA Joined: |
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 Member Posts: 6409 From: Geneva, Illinois Joined: Member Rating: 5.3 |
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 Member (Idle past 6103 days) Posts: 382 From: Westminster,CO, USA Joined: |
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 Inactive Member |
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 Member Posts: 9003 From: Canada Joined: |
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 Member Posts: 6409 From: Geneva, Illinois Joined: Member Rating: 5.3 |
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 Member (Idle past 6103 days) Posts: 382 From: Westminster,CO, USA Joined: |
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 Member (Idle past 6103 days) Posts: 382 From: Westminster,CO, USA Joined: |
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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