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Originally posted by mamaloney
reply to post by Shadow Herder
Nope. The big bang was expansion, not explosion.
Originally posted by Titen-Sxull
reply to post by Shadow Herder
Except that atheists don't believe that, so you've set up a strawman.
I'll willingly admit that I don't know where the singularity came from before the Big Bang but inserting God is just a God of the Gaps fallacy. The honest answer is that before the Big Bang we don't know.
Originally posted by spy66
Originally posted by Titen-Sxull
reply to post by Shadow Herder
Except that atheists don't believe that, so you've set up a strawman.
I'll willingly admit that I don't know where the singularity came from before the Big Bang but inserting God is just a God of the Gaps fallacy. The honest answer is that before the Big Bang we don't know.
Why cant God by a argument for some as long as you dont know what was before the big bang. You have no grounds to argue against a God period.
Why do you people get to say what is and what isn't?
Originally posted by Xcalibur254
reply to post by OhZone
Since evolution is so patently false would you care to explain how we have been able to observe speciation in a lab environment?
Observed Instances of Speciation
Some More Observed Speciation Events
Of course I expect the Creationist crowd to ignore these once again and claim that evolution has never been replicated in a lab.
Originally posted by MrXYZ
Originally posted by spy66
Originally posted by Titen-Sxull
reply to post by Shadow Herder
Except that atheists don't believe that, so you've set up a strawman.
I'll willingly admit that I don't know where the singularity came from before the Big Bang but inserting God is just a God of the Gaps fallacy. The honest answer is that before the Big Bang we don't know.
Why cant God by a argument for some as long as you dont know what was before the big bang. You have no grounds to argue against a God period.
Why do you people get to say what is and what isn't?
It's all good, of course they have the right to believe in god...or purple unicorns farting the universe into existence...whatever makes them happy. The only issue is that they often try to sell that BELIEF as fact, when it really isn't given that it isn't based on logic/rationality. Or they claim "their god hypothesis" is just as credible as scientific theories like evolution, which is of course complete and utter nonsense
Originally posted by MrXYZ
reply to post by OhZone
You will never see a duck turn into a crocodile...which judging from your post, is the only thing that would convince you
Clue: That's not how evolution works...
Your old bones and fossils still do not prove that one creature became another that was totally different.
All creatures have the same basic structure...., torso, limbs, and all have much the same DNA
You will find the same true for all creatures in the whole universe.
This is not proof of evolution; ony proof that there are different forms of creatures.
Survival of the species dictates that the most efficient form survives and thrives. Certainly then all creatures living in any one certain area should all have the same form and all look alike. And yet we have hundreds of different creatures all in any one area. If efficiency is the key to survival why aren't they all alike?
Humans have the least efficient form of all.
We wouldn't need shoes and various layers of clothing, nor special forms of shelter if we had evolved via the survival of the fittest.
So just how did we get to be such puny defective creatures. Pound for pound the ape family has 4 times the muscle power.
Originally posted by Titen-Sxull
reply to post by spy66
I don't assert that there is no God, I'm asserting that there's no logical or evidentiary support for one and that inserting one into the Big Bang or Evolution as an explanation is a fallacy. There might be a God but I've yet to come across any evidence for one or any compelling arguments for one.
Originally posted by spy66
Originally posted by Titen-Sxull
reply to post by spy66
I don't assert that there is no God, I'm asserting that there's no logical or evidentiary support for one and that inserting one into the Big Bang or Evolution as an explanation is a fallacy. There might be a God but I've yet to come across any evidence for one or any compelling arguments for one.
It is only a fallacy theory within scientific terms and definitions. And that disproves nothing.
It only means that the scientific community have taken authority on what "is" and what "isn't" a legitimate theory in present time. They can not prove or disprove the theory at present time.edit on 27.06.08 by spy66 because: (no reason given)