(July 24, 2011 at 9:38 am)edk141 Wrote: Did you mean silicon? Silicones are inert.
My point is, this is God we're talking about. He could make people out of anything, and adjust the way physics works to fit how he'd made people.
I know water is required for how our kind of life works. However there is no shortage of organic solvents, don't know why there couldn't be life that relied on them instead.
This is an something christians, including young GodMustExistSinceNothingMakesSense, bandy around a lot, the idea that god can do ANYTHING god wants. Talk about your unsupported and unsupportable claims. This really is genie in the bottle thinking. Some cosmologists assert that under other conditions the laws of physics could be otherwise, but there is no reason to assume that there is a flexible randomness to what they may be. Presumably the conditions determine the laws and a perfect scientific theory would explain what the range of 'laws' could be as well as specifically what conditions are determinative and, possibly, how.
Christians claim to know way too much about their deity. Their infinitely powerful god doesn't use knowledge and skill to fit her creations to a universal substrate. No, their god just blinks it into existence just the way he wants. Question: if god is so infinite/powerful how did chrisitans come to know so much about its methods and purposes? [Wait, never mind if the answer has anything to do with that hodgepodge of ramblings they call the bible.]
