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Argument #2: Evolution Of Species
RE: Argument #2: Evolution Of Species
(May 9, 2014 at 12:42 am)Revelation777 Wrote: You will be given your chance to explain yourself before Him. I hope you repent long before that fateful day.

Why does your god hate people so much that he'd rather just punish everyone who didn't believe in him in life, rather than sitting down and talking to them?

Why is discussion good enough for you, but just too much effort for him?
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RE: Argument #2: Evolution Of Species
(May 9, 2014 at 12:39 am)Revelation777 Wrote:
(May 9, 2014 at 12:28 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: ...which is equally unjustified, and a distinction without a difference as well.

Then I would have to refer to you as a non-believer

I'm sorry, was that supposed to be a cogent response to anything I said or an attempt to explain how your belief is somehow justified?

You're going to have to connect the dots, because you are seriously on a different page from the rest of us.
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RE: Argument #2: Evolution Of Species
Rev,

Are you intentionally ignoring my question?

If your goal is to communicate, why will you not clarify what a word you are using means when someone does not understand it?

I am not insisting on any particular meaning of the term 'kind', I am asking you what it means since you are the one using it.

If you will not address this I can only assume that you do not want to engage in communication with other people on this message board. (Or maybe I have garnered a particular dislike?)

I had hoped that your goal here was to communicate with others, but if you have no interest in communication please make that clear and I will not bother you by asking again.

Cheers.
NOT logic:
1. Claim to have logic
2. Throw a tantrum when asked to present it
3. Claim you've already presented it
4. Repeat step 1

*Rampant.A.I.'s quote
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RE: Argument #2: Evolution Of Species
(May 9, 2014 at 12:42 am)Revelation777 Wrote:
(May 9, 2014 at 12:37 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Wait, so he's NOT going to toss all of us who have committed that one unforgivable sin into the lake of fire?

Sweet.

Incoherent, but sweet.

You will be given your chance to explain yourself before Him. I hope you repent long before that fateful day.

Blasphemy of the holy spirit. Unforgivable sin.

Are you claiming that the unforgivable is somehow now forgivable? Sorry, Rev - I have to call bullshit on that.

You're just making this shit up as you go, aren't you?
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RE: Argument #2: Evolution Of Species
(May 9, 2014 at 12:38 am)Revelation777 Wrote: Please come to my house and show me you create something out of nothing then you will grab my attention.

I don't even have to go to your house to do that. All I have to do is link you to this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRcmqZkGOK4
10 minutes of your time that you will not regret spending.
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RE: Argument #2: Evolution Of Species
This was your first link in writing: my comments in blue
Studying the origin of life

The origin of life might seem like the ultimate cold case: no one was there to observe it and much of the relevant evidence has been lost in the intervening 3.5 billion years or so. Nonetheless, many separate lines of evidence do shed light on this event, and as biologists continue to investigate these data, they are slowly piecing together a picture of how life originated. Major lines of evidence include DNA, biochemistry, and experiments.

These scientists were not there, they are trying to piece together a picture, hardly evidence.



Origins and DNA evidence
Biologists use the DNA sequences of modern organisms to reconstruct the tree of life and to figure out the likely characteristics of the most recent common ancestor of all living things — the "trunk" of the tree of life. In fact, according to some hypotheses, this "most recent common ancestor" may actually be a set of organisms that lived at the same time and were able to swap genes easily. In either case, reconstructing the early branches on the tree of life tells us that this ancestor (or set of ancestors) probably used DNA as its genetic material and performed complex chemical reactions. But what came before it? We know that this last common ancestor must have had ancestors of its own - a long line of forebears forming the root of the tree of life - but to learn about them, we must turn to other lines of evidence.

Just because organisms have DNA with common genetic materials doesn't prove all species have a common ancestor.

The 3 domains that include all living things, the most recent common ancestor of all living things, and forebear lineages from before that most recent common ancestor
Origins and biochemical evidence
By studying the basic biochemistry shared by many organisms, we can begin to piece together how biochemical systems evolved near the root of the tree of life. However, up until the early 1980s, biologists were stumped by a "chicken and egg" problem: in all modern organisms, nucleic acids (DNA and RNA) are necessary to build proteins, and proteins are necessary to build nucleic acids - so which came first, the nucleic acid or the protein? This problem was solved when a new property of RNA was discovered: some kinds of RNA can catalyze chemical reactions — and that means that RNA can both store genetic information and cause the chemical reactions necessary to copy itself. This breakthrough tentatively solved the chicken and egg problem: nucleic acids (and specifically, RNA) came first — and later on, life switched to DNA-based inheritance.

Where did the RNA come from?

Another important line of biochemical evidence comes in the form of surprisingly common molecules. As you might expect, many of the chemical reactions occurring in your own cells, in the cells of a fungus, and in a bacterial cell are quite different from one another; however, many of them (such as those that release energy to power cellular work) are exactly the same and rely on the exact same molecules. Because these molecules are widespread and are critically important to all life, they are thought to have arisen very early in the history of life and have been nicknamed "molecular fossils." ATP, adenosine triphosphate (shown below), is one such molecule; it is essential for powering cellular processes and is used by all modern life. Studying ATP and other molecular fossils, has revealed a surprising commonality: many molecular fossils are closely related to nucleic acids, as shown below.

adenine nucleotide and ATP
The discoveries of catalytic RNA and of molecular fossils closely related to nucleic acids suggest that nucleic acids (and specifically, RNA) were crucial to Earth's first life. These observations support the RNA world hypothesis, that early life used RNA for basic cellular processes (instead of the mix of proteins, RNA, and DNA used by modern organisms).

What if God created the RNA and DNA in all living things?

Origins and experimental evidence
Experiments can help scientists figure out how the molecules involved in the RNA world arose. These experiments serve as "proofs of concept" for hypotheses about steps in the origin of life — in other words, if a particular chemical reaction happens in a modern lab under conditions similar to those on early Earth, the same reaction could have happened on early Earth and could have played a role in the origin of life. The 1953 Miller-Urey experiment, for example, simulated early Earth's atmosphere with nothing more than water, hydrogen, ammonia, and methane and an electrical charge standing in for lightning, and produced complex organic compounds like amino acids. Now, scientists have learned more about the environmental and atmospheric conditions on early Earth and no longer think that the conditions used by Miller and Urey were quite right. However, since Miller and Urey, many scientists have performed experiments using more accurate environmental conditions and exploring alternate scenarios for these reactions. These experiments yielded similar results - complex molecules could have formed in the conditions on early Earth.

THis in not entirely true. http://www.icr.org/article/historic-prim...dy-yields/

This experimental approach can also help scientists study the functioning of the RNA world itself. For example, origins biochemist, Andy Ellington, hypothesizes that in the early RNA world, RNA copied itself, not by matching individual units of the molecules (as in modern DNA), but by matching short strings of units — it's a bit like assembling a house from prefabricated walls instead of brick by brick. He is studying this hypothesis by performing experiments to search for molecules that copy themselves like this and to study how they evolve.

Two views of RNA replication in the early RNA world

A knotty problem...
All the evidence gathered thus far has revealed a great deal about the origin of life, but there is still much to learn. Because of the enormous length of time and the tremendous change that has occurred since then, much of the evidence relevant to origins has been lost and we may never know certain details. Nevertheless, many of the gaps in our knowledge (gaps that seemed unbridgeable just 20 years ago) have been filled in recent years, and continuing research and new technologies hold the promise of more insights. As Ellington puts it, "Origins is a huge knotty problem — but that doesn't mean it's an insoluble one."
The Origins Problem: knotty, but not insoluble.

It remains a knotty problem, and this whole article doesn't disprove my argument.

(May 9, 2014 at 12:44 am)Esquilax Wrote:
(May 9, 2014 at 12:42 am)Revelation777 Wrote: You will be given your chance to explain yourself before Him. I hope you repent long before that fateful day.

Why does your god hate people so much that he'd rather just punish everyone who didn't believe in him in life, rather than sitting down and talking to them?

Why is discussion good enough for you, but just too much effort for him?

He has, He sent His prophets and His Son and man rejected their message and killed them. What more do you want Him to do?
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RE: Argument #2: Evolution Of Species
(May 9, 2014 at 1:17 am)Revelation777 Wrote: He has, He sent His prophets and His Son and man rejected their message and killed them. What more do you want Him to do?

But killing Jesus was part of his plan to begin with. I don't actually need a god to perform a sick murder ritual thousands of years before my birth for me. Compared to that, I would think that a conversation would be easy for him; I just don't get why a god of infinite power and knowledge and love, who isn't in any way harmed by my rational disbelief in life, would leap so readily to simply punishing me when I die, rather than just... talking to me.

Talking to anyone.
"YOU take the hard look in the mirror. You are everything that is wrong with this world. The only thing important to you, is you." - ronedee

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Argument #2: Evolution Of Species
Given that this thread is devolving into Rev ignoring every question, and regressing to prosthelytizing and posting bible verses instead of responses, it should be safe to say he's out of material and we're ready to move on to Argument #3.
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RE: Argument #2: Evolution Of Species
(May 9, 2014 at 1:17 am)Revelation777 Wrote: He has, He sent His prophets and His Son and man rejected their message and killed them. What more do you want Him to do?

How about something we can fucking observe?!
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RE: Argument #2: Evolution Of Species
Talking to everyone.
Instead, we get something that can easily be mistaken for man-made delusion or con.
Given the actual evidence for such human faults, while evidence for a god is absent, I choose to accept the more obvious reasoning... man-made myth.
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