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Author Topic:   Defeating "Dr" Kent Hovinds' claims.
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Message 48 of 60 (350437)
09-19-2006 5:45 PM
Reply to: Message 47 by Muhd
09-19-2006 5:00 PM


Re: poor examples
Atheists all have faith to believe that one day, somehow, scientists will be able to explain something coming from nothing, or life arising from non-life which to me seems to require more blind faith than believing that some higher power did it.
I will set you straight on the matter right now. I am an atheist because I personally require evidence to be presented where in a logical case is made to support the contention that there is a supernatural aspect to life that can be demonstrated to exist and be amenable to investigation.
Since no effort at such evidence has ever been succesful under sceptical examination I have ,after many years, taken the stance that the likelihood of such is so vanishingly unlikely as to not warrant futher concern on my part. Thus I saddle myself with the label of atheist which is given more than its fair share of reckless misinterpretaion by those who feel that their impressions of what constitute an atheist is somehow clearer than those who actually consider themselves as such.
Comparing the problem of the Origin of Life with lightning bolts and the water cycle is simply not going to get you anywhere
If you think this is anywhere remotely close to the understanding of science as pertains to origins of life then you are sadly lacking in information.The interwoven nature of the laws of quantum mechanics applied to chemistry and from there to biochemical processes to life itself is well researched even though there are vast gaps in the details of how it all fits the general outline is quite well established.
It seems quite clear that the means by which such extraordinary complexity can arise is quite simply a failure of our imagination to make the leap into considering why such complexity arises from such simple rules and interactions of those rules and the enviroment they occupy.

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Message 50 of 60 (350443)
09-19-2006 6:03 PM
Reply to: Message 49 by AdminNosy
09-19-2006 5:58 PM


Re: We are talking about Hovind's Claims
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I apologize for the intrusion into the topic and I will pursue this in a seperate thread

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