RE: Is There a Difference Between Trusting Scientists and Trusting Preachers?
July 16, 2016 at 10:13 am
(July 16, 2016 at 7:13 am)Homeless Nutter Wrote:(July 15, 2016 at 2:55 pm)RoadRunner79 Wrote: Ok... so why do you say that science has "proven" that a man who has been dead for three days cannot come alive again?
Even the simplest life requires the specific arrangement of a complex sequence in order to carry out the functions for life. In the case of a being that was once alive, the material is already present and arranged. It just needs to be made living again.[...]
LOL... Who the hell did you learn biology from? Dr. Frankenstein?
To you it may appear, that dead body has the same "arrangement" as a living one, but no - as soon as you die, the trillions of bacteria present in your digestive system begin to decompose your organs. Within few hours irreversible changes to the cell structure on a molecular level are so severe, that this "material" can "carry out the functions for life" no better than a compost heap. Cell death can not be undone any more than a house can be "unburned".
(July 15, 2016 at 2:55 pm)RoadRunner79 Wrote: I would agree, that in Christ's case that some repair was necessary; however is this any more difficult than the arrangement in the first place?
Well, let's see, shall we? It took god 9 months to get Jesus from a cell to a baby. Further 15-20 years to form him into an adult human. Seems like this "arrangement" takes a lot of time.
Do an experiment - bake a cake. You'll need all sorts of materials, the knowledge of how to combine them, some time and energy, in order for your creation to carry out the functions of a cake. Done? Good. Now - smash it on the ground. So - since the material is already present and arranged and you made the cake - I imagine you'll also be able to put it back together again, as if nothing happened? I mean - it will require some "repair" but is this any more difficult than the "arrangement" in the first place?
Or, to give another example - what's easier: slowly setting up thousands of dominoes in a continuous line, or making them all stand back up at the same time, after they were all knocked over?
Thanks for a good and thoughtful post. Biology (much like history) wasn't the strongest subject for me in high school (seemed like just memorization). I do find that in both cases, that my interest are greater now than they where then, and I can learn how the stuff works, rather than just memorizing lists.
However, you only talked about the difficulties on one side of the discussion. What is the difference in origin of life, and resurrection of life? Is it time or the quantity that is the issue? The OOL discussion isn't easy either especially from a naturalistic perspective.
