RE: Intelligent Design
January 5, 2016 at 1:18 pm
(This post was last modified: January 5, 2016 at 1:28 pm by God of Mr. Hanky.)
(January 4, 2016 at 2:05 pm)pool Wrote:(January 4, 2016 at 1:59 pm)Rhythm Wrote: IOW you don't actually believe in ID. Why do you waste our time?
Well, I do believe we live in a world that is intelligently designedDoes that count?
Natural causes and random events seems unlikely considering how constraints caused by them have a tendency to fluctuate(Example: Evolution). I don't think there has been a recorded event in our history where these rules were broken.
Btw, my trainer made me do leg today. Can you murder him for me?
P.S: I'm not 100% sure we are intelligently designed. More like 74% sure. But that's good enough for me :>
Please take a minute, and walk down to the nearest river bank. What do you see there? Do you see lots of smooth gravel, sand and dirt by the water? Looking out on the water, maybe you see a few shoals? You may even see rock outcroppings which were cut by the water, consisting of visible, banded layers. Now, tell me, do you think the process was fundamentally any different by which any of the above got there? Why would you think that process would require any intellectual design whatsoever?
From gravitational force arose stars, planets, volcanic activity, mountains rising, water falling, and rivers being cut by water. Before this happened there were chemical reactions going on in space from the force of collisions, generating heat, leading to new chemical elements and later compounds, all driven by that same force. Why then would you think it took more than this to eventually trigger, in the right chemical environment, and in the absence of competing life forms or predation, the first self-replicating chains of molecules? Once this gets started, if it can keep this up, just as the rivers do for millions of years, then why would you think it took a designer for these chains to alter their replication patterns as their supporting resources changed, giving eventual rise to simple genetic material? By the way, the environment in which this big tree of life first sprouted wasn't necessarily habitable for large animal life forms or modern plants. Now why would a designer want to futz around like that?
Why did the elephant step on the ant? Because it can!
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