RE: What's the lamest defence of Theism you've ever heard?
February 21, 2016 at 2:33 am
(This post was last modified: February 21, 2016 at 2:39 am by robvalue.)
I'm really not sure what AAA even believes. Does he think stuff evolved up until a certain point and then God reached down and gave some primates a nudge to tip them over into humanoids?
Or is it that we didn't evolve at all and we were magically created fully formed?
Evolution happens, that should only be in dispute by people who deny reality. Attributes of offspring are partly determined by the attributes of their parents, after some variation. Does anyone seriously dispute that?
It's only the theory of evolution, what we evolved from and how that thing got here that should be the subject of any debate. I don't know how you'd even test the notion that we were made by magic fully formed, and the fossils of gradually changing humanoids contradict it totally.
Also, we weren't the "goal". We are what happened. Sure, if you rewind time and assume things could happen differently, probably we wouldn't evolve again in the way we have. But then we wouldn't be here to talk about. Whatever was here instead would be here, able to talk about it or otherwise. It's looking at things entirely backwards. Whatever happens after a massive sequence of iterations is going to be "unlikely" if there is any random element involved. By that argument, nothing can happen randomly without magic.
Or is it that we didn't evolve at all and we were magically created fully formed?
Evolution happens, that should only be in dispute by people who deny reality. Attributes of offspring are partly determined by the attributes of their parents, after some variation. Does anyone seriously dispute that?
It's only the theory of evolution, what we evolved from and how that thing got here that should be the subject of any debate. I don't know how you'd even test the notion that we were made by magic fully formed, and the fossils of gradually changing humanoids contradict it totally.
Also, we weren't the "goal". We are what happened. Sure, if you rewind time and assume things could happen differently, probably we wouldn't evolve again in the way we have. But then we wouldn't be here to talk about. Whatever was here instead would be here, able to talk about it or otherwise. It's looking at things entirely backwards. Whatever happens after a massive sequence of iterations is going to be "unlikely" if there is any random element involved. By that argument, nothing can happen randomly without magic.
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