rjh4 Wrote:I read it. So...something that appears to be a flying mechanical machine falls to earth. How do we determine whether or not it is designed or just existed in nature? Since we have not seen something like it how does one make the determination? Likewise for those scientists who are looking for signals from aliens, how can they really distinguish between the signals of nature and ones from intelligent life? Obviously they think they can without having actually received any such signals. How would they convince you?
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Could you re-clarify that? I am interpreting that in several ways... are you being nihilistic or absurdistic in this instance? Are you going to follow this up by the purpose of existentialism? Are you talking about something completely unrelated to the watchmaker argument? Romans 9:19-24 Wrote:9:19 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?Ah, so you do agree then...?
9:20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
9:21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
9:22 What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
9:23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
9:24 Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
Chatpilot may be more qualified to say what was obvious... but does that mean I can't say it myself?
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
