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RE: The vast complexity of living things proves that God exists (proof 1)
October 2, 2013 at 12:59 pm
(October 2, 2013 at 12:53 pm)Tonus Wrote: So god is either incompetent or evil. Is that it?
I vote for both.
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”
- Buddha
"Anyone wanting to believe Jesus lived and walked as a real live human being must do so despite the evidence, not because of it."
- Dennis McKinsey
RE: The vast complexity of living things proves that God exists (proof 1)
October 2, 2013 at 12:59 pm
(October 2, 2013 at 12:49 pm)SavedByGraceThruFaith Wrote:
(October 2, 2013 at 12:40 pm)Crossless1 Wrote: Wait -- biology? Didn't you just tell us how the majority of biologists were mistaken (or did that only apply to specialists in genetics)? Which biologists are you taking your cues from? And don't fucking come back with those sorry Jesus fanboys at the Discovery Institute.
Mistaken about the origin of DNA, cells, life, etc.
Not mistaken about DNA, RNA, proteins, cell division, enzymes, protein folding, etc.
How do you conclude that they are mistaken about the origin of DNA, Cells, life etc. when you stated elsewhere:
"And we do not know what is the cause of DNA, RNA, cells, or living organisms."
I think your argument is starting to fall apart at the seams in your own mind - let alone in our opinions.
RE: The vast complexity of living things proves that God exists (proof 1)
October 2, 2013 at 1:01 pm (This post was last modified: October 2, 2013 at 1:02 pm by max-greece.)
(October 2, 2013 at 12:56 pm)SavedByGraceThruFaith Wrote:
(October 2, 2013 at 12:53 pm)Tonus Wrote: So you are asserting that god either...
a) ...designed humans so badly that they could not resist being deceived
or
b) ...intended for them to be deceived at the very start
So god is either incompetent or evil. Is that it?
Just that God made man with free will and not robots.
To truly give free will is to allow man to disobey and reject God.
Even 1/3 the angles who have free will rebelled.
(October 2, 2013 at 12:53 pm)Stimbo Wrote: So the scientists are right when they announce findings that don't come into (apparent) conflict with your book, but wrong when they tread on its turf?
In the end, it would be true that if their findings actually conflict with the holy Bible, they would be wrong.
RE: The vast complexity of living things proves that God exists (proof 1)
October 2, 2013 at 1:06 pm
(October 2, 2013 at 12:56 pm)SavedByGraceThruFaith Wrote: Just that God made man with free will and not robots.
To truly give free will is to allow man to disobey and reject God.
Even 1/3 the angles who have free will rebelled.
That did not address the question. You claimed that god is justified in punishing everyone for the original sin because if any other person had been there, he would have sinned as well. This points to more than just an issue of free will or bad decision-making. If any human put in that position was guaranteed to fail... per your claim... then they were either designed to fail, or they were presented with a scenario that god knew they could not resist. So... is he a bumbler, or a malicious bastard?
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
RE: The vast complexity of living things proves that God exists (proof 1)
October 2, 2013 at 1:09 pm
(October 2, 2013 at 1:06 pm)Tonus Wrote:
(October 2, 2013 at 12:56 pm)SavedByGraceThruFaith Wrote: Just that God made man with free will and not robots.
To truly give free will is to allow man to disobey and reject God.
Even 1/3 the angles who have free will rebelled.
That did not address the question. You claimed that god is justified in punishing everyone for the original sin because if any other person had been there, he would have sinned as well. This points to more than just an issue of free will or bad decision-making. If any human put in that position was guaranteed to fail... per your claim... then they were either designed to fail, or they were presented with a scenario that god knew they could not resist. So... is he a bumbler, or a malicious bastard?
RE: The vast complexity of living things proves that God exists (proof 1)
October 2, 2013 at 1:10 pm (This post was last modified: October 2, 2013 at 1:14 pm by Angrboda.)
Whatever. Your first proof has been shown to be invalid. (Which led to a spurious ad hoc assertion that it couldn't have arisen through random chemical reactions, which, even if true, wouldn't indicate these things are designed. Neither would it indicate that your original argument that complexity indicates design is valid or true, which is what your larger argument rests upon.)
So this entire line of argumentation fails unless you produce something new that we haven't seen yet.
RE: The vast complexity of living things proves that God exists (proof 1)
October 2, 2013 at 1:11 pm (This post was last modified: October 2, 2013 at 1:14 pm by Beta Ray Bill.)
(October 2, 2013 at 1:02 pm)SavedByGraceThruFaith Wrote: The mistake in the theories of atheistic origin science is to completely ignore the actions of God.
THERE IS NO GOD!
Don't you get it yet? Open your mind, look at the facts, and LET GO of your faith! It's the only way that you will ever be YOU! Push God to the side for a minute and contemplate a functioning universe without him. It just makes more sense!
Don't let faith control you anymore. Take control of your own destiny! You won't become an evil, malicious pig, I promise. Your own morals will protect you from corruption. There is no devil to take you over. You can resist temptation without a God. Cross my heart and hope to die!
Have faith in yourself, not superstition.
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”
- Buddha
"Anyone wanting to believe Jesus lived and walked as a real live human being must do so despite the evidence, not because of it."
- Dennis McKinsey