(December 24, 2016 at 5:35 pm)Mr Greene Wrote: 1) Atheism is a lack of belief in a deity or deities. Scientific data is used to assess the value of specific claims. Also to refute the utter BS spouted by ID muppets who haven't heard the result from Dover yet...
2) Life shows apparent "design" due to the bias of the human brain, this is merely an artifact of the observer, not an inherant property of life.
3) The Cell is formed by a phospholipid bilayer membrane, Phopholipids have hyrophilic heads and hyrophobic tails and thus form a double membrane in order to prevent water from contacting the tails. Pure mathmatical chemistry, nothing magical.
4) Protein chains have been produced in the lab from base compounds subjected to environmental conditions from the Hadean period.
How do you know that your desire to not believe in a God is not a product of your human brain, which is susceptible to deluding itself to believe what makes it feel comfortable. How convenient that only the Christian position is biologically predisposed. Moreover, why is something automatically wrong if we are predisposed to believe it?
The cell membrane is formed by a phospholipid bilayer (and in some cases it's a monolayer), but that is not what anyone is concerned about forming. Also, you fail to acknowledge that the membrane is composed of about 50% proteins as well, which are largely responsible for balancing the internal environment and initiating complex signal transduction pathways that change the transcription pattern of the cell. You also have ignored the DNA, RNA, proteins, and the way the three are interconnected and interdependent.
Even if you link a few amino acids, you are still not getting life. You are not even getting functional protein folds. That would be like me saying that I found some copper out in nature and saw lightning. That must mean that my ipod formed without input from intelligence. After all we know that some of the raw materials can be found in nature. How ignorant we must be of this fact to assume that an ipod had a designer.
