RE: Easy arguments against the Bible, and religion as a whole
December 17, 2011 at 11:01 am
(This post was last modified: December 17, 2011 at 11:06 am by The Grand Nudger.)
You think a huge ocean is required to house trillions of amino acids? A single 8-ounce cup of water contains 7.9x10^24 molecules. This is why your numbers don't have anything to say about the improbability of abiogenesis. Again, that life is present here (and the form that life has taken) is unsurprising based upon the materials available on this planet. Survival is the surprising bit. When dealing with numbers so large (the amount of potential candidate molecules, the spans of time involved, etc) anything even remotely possible becomes an inevitability. You keep insinuating that we were impossibly lucky in that life arose here. That's a pretty narrow view of life. It's completely untrue on at least two accounts. The first I've just explained. Going further, 99% of everything that has ever lived is extinct. That 99% wasn't lucky at all, and any moment could be our last. Judging by numbers alone; since you seem to feel that they are so important in this discussion, one would expect our light to be extinguished every single day. Yet we remain, for now.
Ending the whole bit with a variant of the "if abiogensis/evolution is true then a monster should jump out of this jar of peanut butter right fucking now!" gambit? Unimpressive. You've been contributing to the "easy arguments against" portion very well. Look at you, doing a disservice to your god by boxing him in with ignorance. Still haven't seen you even attempt to make your own case.
Ending the whole bit with a variant of the "if abiogensis/evolution is true then a monster should jump out of this jar of peanut butter right fucking now!" gambit? Unimpressive. You've been contributing to the "easy arguments against" portion very well. Look at you, doing a disservice to your god by boxing him in with ignorance. Still haven't seen you even attempt to make your own case.
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