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Quetzal Member (Idle past 5872 days) Posts: 3228 Joined: |
Heh. I'll bet you didn't think anyone actually remembered all the words of wisdom the high priests and priestesses of Pinkness wrote all those years ago, did ya'?
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Coragyps Member (Idle past 734 days) Posts: 5553 From: Snyder, Texas, USA Joined: |
I didn't even remember all those prophetic utterances myself!
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GDR Member Posts: 6202 From: Sidney, BC, Canada Joined: Member Rating: 1.9 |
I have to admit that the idea of Flying Spaghetti Monster being the creator of all things is pretty far fetched but it just can't be any more far fetched than the idea that we and this universe came into being by some cosmic accident.
Everybody is entitled to my opinion.
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SuperNintendo Chalmers Member (Idle past 5834 days) Posts: 772 From: Bartlett, IL, USA Joined: |
What would you define as an accident?
And yes, it's probably off-topic
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EZscience Member (Idle past 5154 days) Posts: 961 From: A wheatfield in Kansas Joined: |
Here is the beginning of a rather unproductive argument regarding what does and does not constitute an accident. I hope, for everyones's sake, that we don't have to cover this pedantic ground again.
GDR writes: ... can't be any more far fetched than the idea that we and this universe came into being by some cosmic accident Pray expound to us your reasoning that this scenario should seem to you so improbable?
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GDR Member Posts: 6202 From: Sidney, BC, Canada Joined: Member Rating: 1.9 |
All I'm saying is that the idea that the obvious design in this world came about without any outside intervention requires more faith than I am able to muster.
I am not a YEC and don't have enough knowledge of biology to have any kind of informed opinion on evolution. I'm not saying that ID is science, as a matter of fact I would say that it isn't, but the non scientific evidence for ID is in my view overwhelming. Everybody is entitled to my opinion.
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SuperNintendo Chalmers Member (Idle past 5834 days) Posts: 772 From: Bartlett, IL, USA Joined: |
the obvious design in this world There's your first problem. But I think a lot of us have asked those questions about why we (and everything else is here), etc. Seems like honest inquiry to me. Cheers and good searching!
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mark24 Member (Idle past 5195 days) Posts: 3857 From: UK Joined: |
GDR,
... but the non scientific evidence for ID is in my view overwhelming. There is no evidential, logically valid evidence of ID at all. Given that this is the case, quite what you find "overwhelming" about a notion that is untestable & unfalsifiable is puzzling. Mark There are 10 kinds of people in this world; those that understand binary, & those that don't
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EZscience Member (Idle past 5154 days) Posts: 961 From: A wheatfield in Kansas Joined: |
Hi GDR.
I think the other 2 respondents to your post picked out the same two statements that I would have. To postulate design, once you have a good understanding of how evolution works, seems to me far more improbable (not to mention unecessary) than any 'chance-based' explanation, especially given that the actual mechanisms explaining such changes have been clearly delineated and verified by observartion and experimentation. This can not be said for any ID interpretation of how nature 'works'.
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GDR Member Posts: 6202 From: Sidney, BC, Canada Joined: Member Rating: 1.9 |
My understanding of the theory of evolution is that it occurred due to genetic mutations. Speciation has been shown to work and the theory is that even macroevolution is just a whole lot of speciation occurring over time.
It would seem logical that evolution would occur gradually but consistently over time. However, most of it seems to have occurred during the relatively short Cambrian period which strikes me a somewhat strange if there is nothing other than natural causes for evolution. These genetic mutations could have occurred as you would say by natural selection. I think it is far more likely given the design involved that these genetic mutations were either designed initially or guided throughout the process by an external intelligence. Given human consciousness and our sense of right and wrong, love and hate etc, I find it extremely difficult to believe that it too just evolved naturally. It seems so much more likely to be a part of a much larger design, designed by a much larger, (metaphorically speaking), designer. I contend that with all the complexity and beauty of the science and math of QM and GR that they scream out the fact that there is obviously design involved. None of this is scientific as such. To me it's just obvious and as I said to believe that all of this and more happened without any outside intelligence being involved, requires a great deal more faith than I am capable of. Everybody is entitled to my opinion.
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crashfrog Member (Idle past 1467 days) Posts: 19762 From: Silver Spring, MD Joined: |
These genetic mutations could have occurred as you would say by natural selection. I don't understand how people get something so simple so wrong, over and over again. Selection doesn't cause mutations. Selection is the fact that not every organism survives to reproduce, or reproduces the same number of offspring.
I think it is far more likely given the design involved that these genetic mutations were either designed initially or guided throughout the process by an external intelligence. Well, we know that mutations occur at random, over time. We know that they're not something programmed into the DNA, laying there in wait. Mutations happen; they're not designed or preprogrammmed.
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GDR Member Posts: 6202 From: Sidney, BC, Canada Joined: Member Rating: 1.9 |
crashfrog writes: Mutations happen; they're not designed or preprogrammmed. Mutations happen; they are designed or preprogrammed. Neither of us can make those statements and prove that they are true. Neither statement is scientific. It is scientific to say that mutations happen but to say why they happen is not. You have looked at the world and come to one conclusion and I have come to another. I just think that your position stretches credulity more than mine does but that isn't scientific either.
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crashfrog Member (Idle past 1467 days) Posts: 19762 From: Silver Spring, MD Joined: |
Neither of us can make those statements and prove that they are true. Well, no, that's false. Many, many experiments have been performed that show that mutations aren't the environmental activation of already-present genetic programming; they're novel genetic sequences that arise, at random, in organisms.
It is scientific to say that mutations happen but to say why they happen is not. Mutations aren't magic. They happen because DNA, like any molecule, follows the laws of physics. Sometimes mutations happen because UV radiation causes two adjacent thyamines to form a dimer. Sometimes they happen when reactive molecules damage a nucleotide base or two. What would make you think that the origin of mutations couldn't be a scientific question? Seems perfectly scientific to me.
You have looked at the world and come to one conclusion and I have come to another. I just think that your position stretches credulity more than mine does but that isn't scientific either. You're entitled to your own opinion, but not to your own facts. The fact is, mutations are not pre-programmed into an organism's DNA; they're changes that happen to the DNA, caused at random by one of a number of perfectly natural physical events.
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GDR Member Posts: 6202 From: Sidney, BC, Canada Joined: Member Rating: 1.9 |
crashfrog writes: Mutations aren't magic. They happen because DNA, like any molecule, follows the laws of physics. Sometimes mutations happen because UV radiation causes two adjacent thyamines to form a dimer. Sometimes they happen when reactive molecules damage a nucleotide base or two. You keep confusing an explanation of how things happen for why they happen. You are right, they follow the laws of physics, but you can't say why the laws of physics exist at all. I'm convinced that the laws of physics are the way they are because they are designed that way, whereas you are convinced that they're not.
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ReverendDG Member (Idle past 4110 days) Posts: 1119 From: Topeka,kansas Joined: |
I'm convinced that the laws of physics are the way they are because they are designed that way, whereas you are convinced that they're not.
how are you convinced? whats your basis for this belief? To me there is no evidence of design, if there is design its so suble to the point that it doesn't look designed
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