RE: My dumbass parents doubt evolution
November 19, 2012 at 9:37 am
(This post was last modified: November 19, 2012 at 10:07 am by Aractus.)
(November 18, 2012 at 1:09 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Are we talking about that self-replicating molecule, made up of four nitrogen-based nucleotides - guanine, adenine, thymine, and cytosine - and which looks like this:Um, DNA isn't self-replicating I don't know where you got that idea from...
I agree, we don't know what the hell that stuff is...
(November 18, 2012 at 3:08 pm)Lion IRC Wrote: I dont think you understood my *cough* ''argument''Incorrect. You simply don't understand science well enough to use it effectively.
I tell you what, read my thought experiment here, which I believe disproves the currently accepted wave-particle duality model (my argument is not that matter doesn't behave as waves, but rather that it doesn't "change state" to become quantized particles when observed). See if you're able to follow it or not.
Quote:OK we can use a monkey versus gravity rather than a man versus gravity if you like. No biggie. Gravity cant and doesnt ''decide'' to pick up rocks.Gravity doesn't decide to make protons, nuclei, electrons, molecules, gasses, liquids and solids either. Doesn't mean we can't use science to describe them
Quote:Are you claiming that monekys and rocks are both equally lacking in volition? That physics can predict the act of a monkey deciding to pick up a rock and throw it? Can the laws of physics predict which direction the monkey will throw the rock? How hard the monkey will throw it? Why the rock must be thrown at that exact point in time rather than 30 seconds earlier or 10 minutes later?Straw man. Two different laws of physics tell you two different things, one doesn't affect the other.
Quote:Do you understand that the biggest hurdle standing in the way of a Unified Theory of Everything is the INABILITY of physics to predict everything that will necessarily happen? (No absolute time. No absolute relative position.)Straw man. I don't believe in a unified theory of everything. BTW how do you imagine "absolute time" and "absolute relative position" anyway? That could only work in a purely linear universe...
Quote:The only certain principle is UNCERTAINTY.You mean the "Uncertainty Principle"?
Quote:And you're gonna come in here and try to tell me that primate behaviour (pick up rock and throw it) is subject to predictable laws of physics?The monkey is going to do it in a relatively specific way. He isn't going to bite it and pick it up with his teeth, for instance. I'd say that's called predictable behaviour. You take your pet cat and put it near water, you know with near certainty what it will do. The behaviour is predictable.