RE: Good old redneck Tennessee
April 25, 2012 at 7:37 pm
(This post was last modified: April 25, 2012 at 8:27 pm by Cyberman.)
(April 25, 2012 at 7:10 pm)deciple Wrote: Stimbo- very informative video you put up. im no chemist or biologist and dont claim to be. Ill probably watch that a few more times to make sure i can grasp as much of it as i can. Honestly its still hard to accept that all that complex chemistry, biology and other sciences ive probably never heard of could just happen by chance. There is no way to know what the conditions of earth were in the beginning. Or where this process began. Thank you for your contribution. A little kindness goes a long way with people.
If it helps, get rid of the notion that things absent a god had to happen by chance. You may live a mile away from the post office, but just because the idea of leaping there in a single bound may be ludicrously impossible doesn't mean you can never go there. It's not an all-or-nothing proposition. Things may be complex today but that doesn't mean they've always been that way. To borrow from your post, complex chemistry develops from simple chemistry. Likewise biology.
Finally, it is not true that we can't know the conditions of the early Earth. We may not know exactly what was going on in every detail but this is a universe away from saying we know nothing at all, or that it's all guesswork. As for where this process began, that's largely immaterial. Anyway, most of this is covered in the video.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
