RE: Chat with a creationist
May 5, 2012 at 9:32 am
(This post was last modified: May 5, 2012 at 9:43 am by Abishalom.)
(May 5, 2012 at 12:21 am)FallentoReason Wrote: Tell him to look into the sky like 'Abraham' did. Every single star up there could potentially be a solar system like ours. By default we represent the low probability of life because we are here.You're using appeal to probability. There are billions of solar systems in the universe therefore there must a at least 1 with life. That's not a reasonable conclusion.
Quote:Also, the earth is only a 'perfect ecosystem' because it's adapted to the environment. It doesn't work backwards in the sense that one can say the ecosystem is perfect because the earth was placed just right. Instead, our planet was in an optimal position therefore life could commence.I'm that's not a reasonable rebuttal of the fact the earth (out of billions of planets) is the only documented one with diverse life.
Again, out of the billions upon billions of planets out there, the earth by default represents the chance that a planet could have the features like ours. It's basic probability.
Quote:A 4 minute explanation of the evolution of the eye:In what way does a guy BUILDING a model that resembles eye function of various organism prove that they "evolved" naturally. There no logic or evidence in this video to support that claim.
Quote:Spiderman lives in New York, a real city. Is spiderman real? I don't understand the point he's trying to make.Spiderman isn't in the bible (

Quote:Ah I see. Spiderman lives in New York, a real city. Spiderman is not real.Well then Spiderman doesn't actually live in New York (since he's not real).
I just posted a thread on transitional fossils. That's usually one of the topics creationists will bring up against evolution.
Quote:No historical data to prove what? Jesus? Well yes... that is correct. Transitional fossils? There is data in the form of fossils that gives evidence for this, hence why the theory hasn't been trashed because it still holds true.Post link to thread please.