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Originally posted by edmc^2
reply to post by Noncompatible
Noncompatible you say --
..."we don't know" is the most honest answer there is, surely ?
It's more like "WE DON'T WANT TO KNOW is the most honest answer there is" for atheist n such - alike, cuz evidence of intelligence is staring you in the eye.
imagine that - DNA CODE is INTELLIGENCE!
tc
Originally posted by MrXYZ
I'd love to play poker against anyone applying "creationist probability calculations"
Originally posted by MrXYZ
Originally posted by edmc^2
reply to post by Noncompatible
Noncompatible you say --
..."we don't know" is the most honest answer there is, surely ?
It's more like "WE DON'T WANT TO KNOW is the most honest answer there is" for atheist n such - alike, cuz evidence of intelligence is staring you in the eye.
imagine that - DNA CODE is INTELLIGENCE!
tc
And that's your BELIEF....not backed up by objective evidence
Originally posted by HappyBunny
Originally posted by MrXYZ
I'd love to play poker against anyone applying "creationist probability calculations"
Hope they understand Borel's Law...
Originally posted by uva3021
reply to post by edmc^2
Borel's law was referenced by HappyBunny to elicit the exact response you just gave, hoping you would use it to strengthen your argument, thereby embarrassing yourself even further.
“If the universe is simply an accident, the odds against it containing any appreciable order are ludicrously small. . . . As this was clearly not the case, it appears hard to escape the conclusion that the actual state of the universe has been ‘chosen’ or selected somehow from the huge number of available states, all but an infinitesimal fraction of which are totally disordered. And if such an exceedingly improbable initial state was selected, there surely had to be a selector or designer to ‘choose’ it.” -- God and the New Physics
-- Paul Davies, professor of theoretical physics at the University of Newcastle in Great Britain,
Originally posted by edmc^2
Originally posted by MrXYZ
Originally posted by edmc^2
reply to post by Noncompatible
Noncompatible you say --
..."we don't know" is the most honest answer there is, surely ?
It's more like "WE DON'T WANT TO KNOW is the most honest answer there is" for atheist n such - alike, cuz evidence of intelligence is staring you in the eye.
imagine that - DNA CODE is INTELLIGENCE!
tc
And that's your BELIEF....not backed up by objective evidence
No siree Bob - not just a belief but a fact backed up by objective evidence that you refuse to see and refuse to know.
Let me prove it to you by way of a simple question:
Is the DNA Code a form of language?
That is a language that we can interprete and cypher?
Or are they just random meaningless bunched of codes with no sense of stucture and purpose - a completely arbitrariy code of nonsense like the abioGenesis hypothesis?
For example - the DNA Code for insulin.
What say you - all NOT KNOWING -ignorant- ONE?
Don't know?
Originally posted by edmc^2
reply to post by uva3021
Chew on this one too while you figure out my question.
“If the universe is simply an accident, the odds against it containing any appreciable order are ludicrously small. . . . As this was clearly not the case, it appears hard to escape the conclusion that the actual state of the universe has been ‘chosen’ or selected somehow from the huge number of available states, all but an infinitesimal fraction of which are totally disordered. And if such an exceedingly improbable initial state was selected, there surely had to be a selector or designer to ‘choose’ it.” -- God and the New Physics
-- Paul Davies, professor of theoretical physics at the University of Newcastle in Great Britain,
So what say you uva3021 - CHANCE EVENT DID IT?
'don't know?
So uva3021 what say you - was chance event responsible for the emergence of INTELLIGENT Life?
Don't Know?
Originally posted by MrXYZ
Originally posted by edmc^2
reply to post by uva3021
Chew on this one too while you figure out my question.
“If the universe is simply an accident, the odds against it containing any appreciable order are ludicrously small. . . . As this was clearly not the case, it appears hard to escape the conclusion that the actual state of the universe has been ‘chosen’ or selected somehow from the huge number of available states, all but an infinitesimal fraction of which are totally disordered. And if such an exceedingly improbable initial state was selected, there surely had to be a selector or designer to ‘choose’ it.” -- God and the New Physics
-- Paul Davies, professor of theoretical physics at the University of Newcastle in Great Britain,
So what say you uva3021 - CHANCE EVENT DID IT?
'don't know?
Yes, and he's stating an OPINION. He isn't providing a scientific theory or objective evidence to back up his claims. Just because he's a scientist doesn't mean everything he says is suddenly a scientific theory.
By the way, thanks providing another example of an argumentative fallacy...the ARGUMENT FROM AUTHORITY.
Ahh!! of course - now comes the circular argument.
State a fact - they will ask for evidence from an expert.
Provide a the evidence - they come back with just an "OPINION".
Back it up again with more facts from other experts - they come back with "ARGUMENT FROM AUTHORITY".
Provide further proof - and ask them to provide their evidence - they come back with
"WE DON'T KNOW".
See I figured you already with this simple bait n switch.
So MR. XYZ - what do you call "believing on something you don't know"?
care to take a CHANCE?
Originally posted by edmc^2
reply to post by MrXYZ
So MR. XYZ - what do you call "believing in something you don't know"?
edit on 9-7-2012 by edmc^2 because: in on
Originally posted by MrXYZ
reply to post by edmc^2
So uva3021 what say you - was chance event responsible for the emergence of INTELLIGENT Life?
Don't Know?
"Don't know" is the only honest answer given that we DON'T KNOW
Originally posted by edmc^2
Originally posted by MrXYZ
reply to post by edmc^2
So uva3021 what say you - was chance event responsible for the emergence of INTELLIGENT Life?
Don't Know?
"Don't know" is the only honest answer given that we DON'T KNOW
Mr. XYZ - what do you call someone who readily believes in something he/she doesn't know?
Originally posted by MrXYZ
Originally posted by edmc^2
reply to post by MrXYZ
So MR. XYZ - what do you call "believing in something you don't know"?
edit on 9-7-2012 by edmc^2 because: in on
Personal belief not based on objective evidence? Don't your question at all..you could call it an opinion.
The sad part is, you pretend your personal belief is fact...and that's kinda weird given you haven't provided any proof to back up those claims. You are essentially asking people to blindly believe youedit on 9-7-2012 by MrXYZ because: (no reason given)
Fact is all of the evidence I presented to support my belief are grounded on facts.
You on the other hand based your belief on what you don't know.
So to me a person who believes on what he/she doesn't know is either ignorant or just plain gullible.
I believe that Life can only come from pre-existing life.
Experiment after experiment showed this to be a fact.
You on the other hand don't know and many of your type believe in an unproven hypothesis that life arose from non-living materials by chance events.
Am I right?
If so - who really is basing their belief on OPINION here?
Originally posted by MrXYZ
Originally posted by edmc^2
Originally posted by MrXYZ
reply to post by edmc^2
So uva3021 what say you - was chance event responsible for the emergence of INTELLIGENT Life?
Don't Know?
"Don't know" is the only honest answer given that we DON'T KNOW
Mr. XYZ - what do you call someone who readily believes in something he/she doesn't know?
Blind faith? Take your pick
Are you gonna start defending creationism again with semantics now that you ran out of scientific arguments?edit on 9-7-2012 by MrXYZ because: (no reason given)
"Don't know" is the only honest answer given that we DON'T KNOW