(December 23, 2015 at 1:40 pm)AAA Wrote:By the way I am not an atheist because of evolution or cosmology I am an atheist because the idea of a god seems stupid. I have never found the idea to be anything other than people anthropomorphising abstract concepts and wish projection. Time to grow up sonny.(December 23, 2015 at 1:31 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: You may think that, but you would be wrong.
Quote:Even atheistic biologists would not disagree with the fact that cells contain information. The information itself is useless without proteins to interact with it. The proteins by themselves are useless without the DNA to code for their structure.
Ok so you have a poor understanding of evolutionary theory.
Quote:Fine tuned universe is not a silly argument, you change the strength of gravity or the rate of expansion of the universe by the slightest bit and planets don't form.
Firstly if the universe was unable to support life you would not be able to comment on it. So theres that. But also your argument depends on all forces acting independently. This would happen one force would affect the others and I have seen the odds of a universe being able to support some form of life as being 50/50. This was in one of the science of the disc world books but I can't remember which one off the top of my head.
Quote: Of course planet formation is poorly explained by natural means. You just say that these arguments are wrong without offering a reason why.
Planet formation is quite well explained by natural means but is an emerging field and will be refined. Science ain't finished, but the idea that there was a god involved at any level rather is.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
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