(June 6, 2014 at 3:12 pm)mickiel Wrote:(June 6, 2014 at 3:07 pm)Esquilax Wrote: Evidence can be demonstrated to be true, assertions are claims that cannot, or have not yet.
"Evolution cannot create consciousness" is an assertion, and yet you labelled it as evidence. To support it with evidence you would have to demonstrate why this is so using things from the real world. But if you just say it, you've only made an assertion, and as I've said, assertions are cheap. Assertions are trivial. Anyone can make any assertion they like.
The stuff you're saying has no evidence in it, and we aren't required to accept it based on just the fact that you said it. Because assertions are easy.
God does not exist, and the evidence for that is consciousness.
There, I've just made an assertion. Do you find that compelling?
No? Then why on earth would we find your assertions any more appealing than that? Because all you've done, for the most part, is said "X is proof of god, and Y is proof of god." Sometimes you add "because I can't see how natural things could do that," but the fact that you can't think of something also isn't compelling.
Evolution cannot create anything; its not a power unto itself; it has no beginning, no mind, its not a creative being; evolution is inherited change, its a process which cannot create ANYTHING!
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Really? Did you read Esq's post at all? Talk about pot calling the kettle black. Please, address Esquilax's point, that simply saying something doesn't make it true. You have to back it up.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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