(February 8, 2019 at 2:21 pm)pocaracas Wrote:(February 7, 2019 at 10:53 am)CDF47 Wrote: 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.
This quote covers it I think.
“What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so.”
― Mark Twain
CDF "knows for certain" something which is not true.
He will say "na ha that's you that is" but he has been proven wrong on every page of this thread. Every page.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
