(February 7, 2019 at 10:53 am)CDF47 Wrote:(February 7, 2019 at 3:47 am)pocaracas Wrote: Your certainty is suspicious and makes the content of your argument dubious at best.
And my "maybe" is there for intellectual honesty.
You could be humble enough to also include a "maybe", or a "most likely" in your speech... that would do wonders.
I base my beliefs regarding religion on science and faith. I am very convinced that I am right so I speak the way I do.
That's the problem. YOU are convinced.
But you should be aware that the fact that you're convinced is not assurance that the world functions as you are convinced it does. As such, you should be humble (and, if I remember my Indiana jones, being humble is a big plus for your religion) and let there be some doubt in the way you present your point of view.
And nothing of what you've given us can provide such a certainty as the one you have concerning this DNA business. Sure, the DNA "machinery" is impressive. Sure it is complex. Sure it seems to encode the blueprints for a living organism. But, and this has been said a million times, that does not give you any assurance of how this "machinery" came into being.
Science postulates an approach based on evolving structures. There is also no 100% certainty, but the mechanism is plausible and relies only on chemistry. Chemistry which is known to work in particular ways... often complex.
The mechanism that you are certain of is... unknown?.. just that some super entity has to be responsible for it. "Has to be" because you can't imagine such complexity arising through natural means. But your lack of imagination need not correlate with reality.
So, some humility, CDF, please.
