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Originally posted by edmc^2
Originally posted by Barcs
Yes embrace intelligence. REAL intelligence. In other words, think intelligently rather than appealing to magic. Intelligent thought pretty much counters everything you have said.
The magic is believing that life can spontaneously arise from non-living things without ANY intelligent guidance.
Of course you can't see it and will not accept it because your whole concept of life is based on PURE imagination, pure speculation and ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY - magic.
A hocus pocus of life appearing spontaneously from a non-living matter - no intelligence required.
Now - that's magic - if not a silly idea.
So like I said:
edit on 24-8-2012 by edmc^2 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by radix
reply to post by edmc^2
Like I said - contribute something intelligent ...else
How about taking some of your own advice? Not only do you keep making the same logical fallacies over and over, you also keep insisting that evolution is a "blind chance event" even though you've been corrected on this numerous times. How intelligent is that?
It's a very clear run-down of the challenges that have to be met in order to explain how the first replicator could have been formed by natural, unguided means.
The magic is believing that life can spontaneously arise from non-living things without ANY intelligent guidance.
If life arose from non intelligent matter,.,.,,. yet the matter was replicating,, at intervals and obeying mechanistic principles,,,,, it is as if they are describing the universe as an artificial computing machine,,.,.( i only say artificial because,, it relates to the types of non intelligent computers and machines us intelligence creates)..,.,.,. so the full circle would be.,,.,. non intelligent computing machines ( the universe and its parts, and what they are capable of doing according to their principles and laws),,, creates artificial/natural ,, mechanistic computing machines that are capable of "intelligence" which we define as controlling the computing and mechanistic moving from a concentrated command center of ones own realm of mind ( intelligence),.,.,. and with this we have created what the mechanistic computer of nature is and does,,,, create machines and computers using parts that obey codes and laws,.,.,.,. we are attempting to do what the machine computing nature did a long time ago,,, create consciousness,, endow something that once did not have intelligence,,, with intelligence.... create A.I..,.,. which in a sense is what we are....
Originally posted by edmc^2
reply to post by ImaFungi
If life arose from non intelligent matter,.,.,,. yet the matter was replicating,, at intervals and obeying mechanistic principles,,,,, it is as if they are describing the universe as an artificial computing machine,,.,.( i only say artificial because,, it relates to the types of non intelligent computers and machines us intelligence creates)..,.,.,. so the full circle would be.,,.,. non intelligent computing machines ( the universe and its parts, and what they are capable of doing according to their principles and laws),,, creates artificial/natural ,, mechanistic computing machines that are capable of "intelligence" which we define as controlling the computing and mechanistic moving from a concentrated command center of ones own realm of mind ( intelligence),.,.,. and with this we have created what the mechanistic computer of nature is and does,,,, create machines and computers using parts that obey codes and laws,.,.,.,. we are attempting to do what the machine computing nature did a long time ago,,, create consciousness,, endow something that once did not have intelligence,,, with intelligence.... create A.I..,.,. which in a sense is what we are....
I get what you're talking about ImaFungi, but this still leaves us the ultimate question of where the intelligence came from?
Is Nature that intelligent, that it's able to create life and consciousness? If so, then is Nature a conscious living "thing"?
Know what I mean? Does Nature able to feel pain, love, sadness, happiness, etc.. i.e. consciousness?
What say you?
Originally posted by ImaFungi
Originally posted by edmc^2
reply to post by ImaFungi
If life arose from non intelligent matter,.,.,,. yet the matter was replicating,, at intervals and obeying mechanistic principles,,,,, it is as if they are describing the universe as an artificial computing machine,,.,.( i only say artificial because,, it relates to the types of non intelligent computers and machines us intelligence creates)..,.,.,. so the full circle would be.,,.,. non intelligent computing machines ( the universe and its parts, and what they are capable of doing according to their principles and laws),,, creates artificial/natural ,, mechanistic computing machines that are capable of "intelligence" which we define as controlling the computing and mechanistic moving from a concentrated command center of ones own realm of mind ( intelligence),.,.,. and with this we have created what the mechanistic computer of nature is and does,,,, create machines and computers using parts that obey codes and laws,.,.,.,. we are attempting to do what the machine computing nature did a long time ago,,, create consciousness,, endow something that once did not have intelligence,,, with intelligence.... create A.I..,.,. which in a sense is what we are....
I get what you're talking about ImaFungi, but this still leaves us the ultimate question of where the intelligence came from?
Is Nature that intelligent, that it's able to create life and consciousness? If so, then is Nature a conscious living "thing"?
Know what I mean? Does Nature able to feel pain, love, sadness, happiness, etc.. i.e. consciousness?
What say you?
says me,, those are good questions and im not claiming to know the answers,,.,., my blurb above was more directed at the others,,, my attempt to try to relate what they are talking about to familiar concepts and closely relate humans and what they do to the universe, its nature...
Originally posted by edmc^2
Originally posted by MrXYZ
reply to post by edmc^2
The alternative to intelligent design isn't "unguided blind chance events"
If you actually bothered to do some real research for a change instead of repeating the same argumentative fallacies over and over and over again you would realize that
make some sense man...don't rant.
And as experience goes - as Intelligent humans we're capable of answering such question. Problem is, which one do we believe?
Originally posted by MrXYZ
Originally posted by edmc^2
Originally posted by MrXYZ
reply to post by edmc^2
The alternative to intelligent design isn't "unguided blind chance events"
If you actually bothered to do some real research for a change instead of repeating the same argumentative fallacies over and over and over again you would realize that
make some sense man...don't rant.
I'm not ranting, I'm merely making sure your posts don't dumb down people given that all your arguments consists of the "god of the gaps", the argument from ignorance, and the argument from complexity.
Here's the link again because I think you STILL don't get what an argumentative fallacy is: LINK
Also, you keep on repeating the nonsense that the alternative to your creationism is "blind chance"...which is NOT what scientists say
You've been told before, but alas you simply ignore it and continue to repeat that nonsense over and over again...
And as experience goes - as Intelligent humans we're capable of answering such question. Problem is, which one do we believe?
The FACT is we don't know how it all started...so if you're a rational person you would admit that we "simply don't know (yet)" instead of filling a gap in knowledge with magic...like the goat herders 2000 years ago who claimed god is responsible for floodsedit on 24-8-2012 by MrXYZ because: (no reason given)
The alternative to intelligent design isn't "unguided blind chance events" If you actually bothered to do some real research for a change instead of repeating the same argumentative fallacies over and over and over again you would realize that