Evopeach writes:
As to the appeal of fusion based arguments for carbon formation I admit not considering triple neutron collision reactions in the core of stars a billion light years away or in a nuclear reactor as being appropriate to the presumed processes of evolution, namely biosphere based mutation and natural selection
I am unaware of Darwins work in nuclear physics as it might relate to fusion temperature speciation ... whatever.
You really don't have a clue, do you? Where do you suppose the carbon atoms in your own body come from? You said:
[...] no scientific inquiry has ever demonstrated the development of the carbon atom from simpler "things" in a step by step process [...]
The illustrations I gave you describe just that step-by-step process. It happens inside stars and is the source of practically all the carbon in the biosphere - in the entire universe for that matter. I just thought I should tell you this, so that when you return from your suspension, you are just a tad less misinformed than you were before, perhaps enabling you to avoid another suspension. Glad to be of help.
As to your favorite or most convincing form of debate or argument I am not interested in playing twenty questions, so perhaps you could just state whether you prefer true rhetoric or some form of sophistry.
I prefer neither. What I like is sound reasoning based on evidence, something I haven't seen from you yet.
I suspect few will be impressed by the logic that if a phenomenon has not yet been observed that is no reason to suggest it is not right around the corner.
You're wrong. About 95 percent of the world's population are very impressed by such 'logic'. The phenomenon in question is "God". Anyway, that's not what I meant. I don't think I'll bother explaining it to you, though.
Another thing: just as I don't think that irreducible complexity in nature necessarily points to an intelligent designer, do I also not think that the contrived complexity of your sentences necessarily points to an intelligent writer. In other words: I think you're intelligent, but not because of your style of writing, so you can drop the pretense.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. - Richard Dawkins