(April 1, 2016 at 11:56 am)Esquilax Wrote:(April 1, 2016 at 6:00 am)AJW333 Wrote: Better than abiogenesis and better than the vast multitude of species all evolving from pond slime by pot luck.
First of all, "pot luck" is a strawman, as I've already explained multiple times how we're not dealing with a totally randomized process, so you can stow that dishonesty right now.
Second of all, can you do more than just lazily assert that the odds are better? How did you derive those odds? How can you derive a positive probability for a thing you cannot possibly have observed and have consistently failed to provide positive evidence of?
And in fact, why should we even care, given that you've demonstrated clearly that you have no idea what positive evidence even is?
Mutations that occur are the result of random chance. We never know what part of the DNA is going to be damaged, how bad that damage will be, or by what mechanism the damage occurs. To that extent, the process of evolution is ultimately driven by "pot luck" mutations.
Natural selection does not influence the occurrence of DNA mutations, only the ability of the organism to survive them. They are still "pot luck."
Concerning positive and negative evidence, let's say that the answer to the question, "is there a God?" is either yes, or no. Now suppose I have a coin in my hand and I toss it and ask you to choose head or tails, and before you answer, I say to you, "let me give you a tip, it isn't tails." Now is the evidence for heads positive or negative? Does it really matter?
What does it matter that I choose God because the evidence for evolution is so bad?
Natural selection does not influence the occurrence of DNA mutations, only the ability of the organism to survive them. They are still "pot luck."
Concerning positive and negative evidence, let's say that the answer to the question, "is there a God?" is either yes, or no. Now suppose I have a coin in my hand and I toss it and ask you to choose head or tails, and before you answer, I say to you, "let me give you a tip, it isn't tails." Now is the evidence for heads positive or negative? Does it really matter?
What does it matter that I choose God because the evidence for evolution is so bad?