“Intelligence,” OUT OF NOTHINGNESS!

[pocaracas]

And, with your very first sentence, you show just how deep your ignorance runs.
I told you to go learn about evolution.
You refuse to do so and, instead, provide us with your version of what "evolution" means. Thank you, but that's not what the Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection states as "evolution".
Either you go learn about it, or remain in your own delusional world.... but don't mix them, as they're clearly not compatible.

Please check my new post “Is Evolution a science or a faith?”
https://atheistforums.org/thread-27193.html

I told you to go learn about evolution.
Even after reading your special thread on evolution science, I come to the conclusion you don't understand it, that is... if you did take the time to learn anything about it.
Esquilax already provided you with tons of material, now go google and try to keep away from stupid creatard sources - you'll be deceived every single time you look in them.

Sorry! I cannot agree to take absurd as scientific fact.

“Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation for the existence and apparently purposeful form of all life has no purpose in mind. It has no mind and no mind’s eye. It does not plan for the future. It has no vison, no foresight, and no sight at all.”
Page 5
The Blind Watchmaker
Richard Dawkins.

And why do you think that's absurd?
Why do you think that the description of events which has been labeled "natural selection" is absurd?

[Angrboda]

If you think Theory of Evolution is a scientific FACT then you have to show evidence for spontaneous generation of organized matter out of nothingness.

That's not what the theory of evolution says, so you are simply wrong. Demanding explanation of straw man versions of evolution is the sign of a crackpot.

[Cyberman]

If you think Theory of God is a scientific FACT then you have to show evidence for spontaneous appearance of Jesus's unprecedented Midichlorian count from the N-dimensional wormhole.

What's that, Harris? Your mythology doesn't say that? How ever could I have come up with such an egregious strawman?

[Minimalist]

If you think Theory of Evolution is a scientific FACT then you have to show evidence for spontaneous generation of organized matter out of nothingness.

That's not what the theory of evolution says, so you are simply wrong. Demanding explanation of straw man versions of evolution is the sign of a crackpot.

In his case more like the sign of a shithead.

[bennyboy]

WHAT??? MECHANISM!!!

Are you saying Theory of Evolution and Natural selection is working according to a MECHANISM?

Read what your FATHER DAWKINS is saying about this,


“Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation for the existence and apparently purposeful form of all life has no purpose in mind. It has no mind and no mind’s eye. It does not plan for the future. It has no vison, no foresight, and no sight at all.”
Page 5
The Blind Watchmaker
Richard Dawkins.

Go and teach this MECHANISM to your FATHER who is the specialist and professor of evolution.

Because HYSTERIA in CAPS is better than actually understanding and presenting rational points?!?!?!?!?!?!

Seriously, though, the emotionality of your response indiciates that your world view is being threatened. Let it die, and something new and wonderful will grow, like a rational Phoenix from the ashes, where what you believe and what you can actually see are pretty much the same. Stop investing your energy in defending the mythology of militant, uneducated desert people, and join the civilized world, where actual truth matters more than "Truth pbuh."

[The Grand Nudger]

Hmn, I missed that. Yes, a mechanism.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mechanism

I knew that evolutionary theory would be too much to handle, I can help you with basic vocab as instead. R. Dawkins wouldn't need me to explain the mechanism to him. He's been pretty busy trying to explain it to hapless rubes of late......

[Chas]

I'm guessing that you didn't crib this info from anyone with even the most basic understanding of evolution. Who told you this?

To say that an unknown, unseen, and unplanned series of “simple, cumulative steps” which lead to a complex end is not random chance is nonsensical.
Without a design or purpose, natural selection is still a random process, regardless of any statements to the contrary. It can only be considered an “incredible stroke of luck” for evolution to reach any destination, especially one as lofty as the human being.

What you fail to grasp is that it is an algorithm.
Changes to DNA are random, but survival is not. And differential survival and reproduction is what makes the process non-random.
Only the genotypes that result in successful phenotypes stays in the game for long.

[The Grand Nudger]

That's probably the core of it, these folks think that the choice is either "god" or "random". Anything between the two positions (if they can be said to be opposites...which they can't - but fuck it) is entirely lost on them.

[Mudhammam]

That's probably the core of it, these folks think that the choice is either "god" or "random". Anything between the two positions (if they can be said to be opposites...which they can't - but fuck it) is entirely lost on them.

Considering the magical nature of their beliefs to begin with, you'd think random would be a perfectly tolerable explanation for them anyway.

[FatAndFaithless]

That's probably the core of it, these folks think that the choice is either "god" or "random". Anything between the two positions (if they can be said to be opposites...which they can't - but fuck it) is entirely lost on them.

Considering the magical nature of their beliefs to begin with, you'd think random would be a perfectly tolerable explanation for them anyway.

Similar to the whole "The universe couldn't have always existed, that doesn't make sense"...."God always has existed, it's simple sense."