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What's the lamest defence of Theism you've ever heard?
RE: What's the lamest defence of Theism you've ever heard?
(February 20, 2016 at 3:11 am)robvalue Wrote: I tried debating you before AAA and I found it to be a waste of time. I gave you a fair shot like I give everyone. You don't know how science works.

At least be honest enough to admit that your Christian beliefs are not scientific. Once you've done that, ask yourself if the required presupposition that not just a creator but a magical creator was involved is clouding your scientific judgement. Of course you think there is a creator; you have to.

If you can't produce something that can actually be tested and is falsifiable, it's not science. It's speculation. At best your methods here are more akin to a soft science like the study of history. It is not biological or physical science.

What would life that wasn't designed be like, and how do you know this? If you can't answer that, all you have is an unfalsifiable assumption that life is designed just because it's life.

If you really are a science student, have you discussed any of this with your tutors?

I don't expect an answer, I'm writing this for the benefit of other readers.
No you haven't. I know how science works more than you. I know how cells work more than you. I know how the body works more than you. I have the privilege to actually be studying biology at a university. You never respond to any scientific topic a response. Also I don't think that my christian beliefs are unscientific, I just meant that we cannot test God. We can certainly compile the evidence and conclude His existence. 

We don't assume life is designed then try to prove it. We look at life. It operates like and infinitely superior computer system that dwarfs anything and everything humans have done. Life that wasn't designed would look something like this: The genetic code must be only a few characters long in order for chance to be sufficient to produce it. There are not initiator proteins that attract acetyltransferases that modify proteins that attract transcription factors that attract mediator proteins and RNA polymerase proteins. All this just to start the process of making one protein. You wouldn't have that. There would be no kinetically perfect enzymes. In fact there would be no enzymes at all. 

And I know you don't want an answer. You would prefer to slap and run.
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RE: What's the lamest defence of Theism you've ever heard? - by AAA - February 20, 2016 at 12:48 pm

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