(May 21, 2016 at 4:05 pm)Gemini Wrote:Let's talk about the evidence then and evaluate it.(May 21, 2016 at 3:49 pm)AAA Wrote: Are you just saying that because that's what everyone else says and you think that agreeing with them makes you appear to be more intelligent?
These are the kind of sentiments you project onto someone else when you yourself have never been confronted with evidence contrary to what you want to believe changed your mind as a result of this evidence.
In other words, you can't image what is going on in the head of someone who understands the evidence for evolution as a teleonomic process. You don't have the colors in the pallette to paint the picture. But hopefully, one day, you'll find out what it's like to put antecedent belief and social pressure aside, and just evaluate the evidence.
Then you'll be able to fulfill one of the most basic and essential requirements of rational dialogue, which is to come to the discussion in good faith and trust that (however mistaken you might believe they are), your interlocutor is sincere in their beliefs.
A few days ago I read about the cooperative binding of hemoglobin molecules in our red blood cells. The hemoglobin is a tetramer ( a protein with four subunits). Cooperative binding means that when one molecule (of oxygen) binds to a subunit, oxygen will be more likely to bind to one of the other subunits. When oxygen binds to an iron ion on one subunit, it results in a conformational change that pulls an alpha helix change which separates the subunits enough to encourage oxygen to bind to one of the other subunits. This phenomenon allows the hemoglobin to release oxygen molecules efficiently to tissues. If it did not have this mechanism, we could not metabolize enough to support our bodies. Not only that, but CO2 (released from metabolizing tissues) causes the hemoglobin to release oxygen. There are also molecules that regulate this. This is a gross oversimplification of what is going on.
Now why can't I evaluate this evidence and say that it might have been designed by an intelligence?