Our server costs ~$56 per month to run. Please consider donating or becoming a Patron to help keep the site running. Help us gain new members by following us on Twitter and liking our page on Facebook!
Current time: May 18, 2025, 5:15 pm

Thread Rating:
  • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
What's the lamest defence of Theism you've ever heard?
RE: What's the lamest defence of Theism you've ever heard?
(February 18, 2016 at 4:02 pm)AAA Wrote:
(February 18, 2016 at 3:47 pm)FebruaryOfReason Wrote: Please see my previous post, AAA. I did graduate from High School.

In fact, I went on to graduate from University. In chemistry.

I know how these molecules are formed. I don't need to speculate. I don't simply believe what I was told by my tutors. I verified what they told me in the laboratory.

Ok, well then tell me is the formation of a phosphodiester bond a spontaneous reaction?  Yup.
https://www.chem.wisc.edu/deptfiles/genc.../dna13.htm

What about the formation of a peptide bond? Standard chemical bond. No god required

Do you know that amino acids have a chiral carbon, meaning they have stereoisomers? Yes I do thanks.
Did you know that only the L form isomer makes proteins? Yes.

What are the odds that a long polypeptide would form with only the L handedness in nature? No odds required. It just does it. Whatever would come out from a D-handed chiral centre is immaterial. We are talking about the product of an L-Chiral center.

Also I am skeptical that you graduated from a University yet you make such an inaccurate statement as saying that DNA can replicate itself. It replicates itself semi-conservatively.

That is just a blatant lie. You need helicases, single stranded binding proteins, DNA polymerases, ligases, topoisomerases, and many more. Also if you formed DNA and proteins in the lab, then congratulations, you should be up for your nobel prize soon, because you are the first one. Except for Meselson and Stahl, ibid. And they basically sat back and watched it happen of it's own accord.


Also if you graduated in chemistry, then you may know about the catalytic efficiency of enzymes. Some of them are literally kinetically perfect, meaning that they catalyze reactions as fast as reactants diffuse and contact them. Have you ever seen a catalyst that reacts that perfectly? Which ones are perfect? Are they really perfect or just very efficient?
I must not be nasty. I must not be nasty. I must not be nasty. I must not be nasty. I must not be nasty. I must not be nasty. I must not be nasty. I must not be nasty.
Reply



Messages In This Thread
RE: What's the lamest defence of Theism you've ever heard? - by FebruaryOfReason - February 18, 2016 at 4:09 pm

Possibly Related Threads...
Thread Author Replies Views Last Post
  Science and Theism Doesn't Work out right? Hellomate1234 28 2905 November 7, 2024 at 8:12 am
Last Post: syntheticadrenaline
  Atheism, theism, agnosticism, gnosticism, ignosticism Simon Moon 25 3587 October 29, 2022 at 4:49 pm
Last Post: LinuxGal
  Moral universalism and theism Interaktive 20 3054 May 6, 2022 at 7:23 pm
Last Post: The Grand Nudger
  Comparing Theism with Flat-Earthism FlatAssembler 26 3476 December 21, 2020 at 3:10 pm
Last Post: Fake Messiah
  Protection Against the Wiles of Theism Rhondazvous 9 2079 April 7, 2019 at 7:03 pm
Last Post: Rhondazvous
  Have you Heathens heard the Good News? The Valkyrie 71 15564 January 26, 2018 at 9:52 pm
Last Post: rado84
  Anti-Theism Haipule 134 31819 December 20, 2017 at 1:39 pm
Last Post: Haipule
  Would you as an atheist EVER do this? Alexmahone 41 8443 December 6, 2017 at 10:47 pm
Last Post: Cecelia
  What date do you estimate atheism will overtake theism in the world population Coveny 49 15777 September 12, 2017 at 9:36 am
Last Post: mordant
  Do You Ever Miss God? Rhondazvous 75 26216 May 20, 2017 at 4:33 pm
Last Post: Silver



Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)