(May 7, 2010 at 4:22 am)tackattack Wrote: 3-weak reference to an article I read link I'm no molecular engineer, but DNA could stre a lot of stuff. Oh and the scientific use of the word junk probably correlates to the God of the Gaps for Christianity. It's only junk because we haven't figured out what it's for yet.
Point taken.
(May 7, 2010 at 4:22 am)tackattack Wrote: 4-So you don't believe in abiogenesis?
No, I don't believe in it. I accept that it's a possible and perhaps plausible theory, but I don't believe in it as a matter of personal trust or intellectual assent.
(May 7, 2010 at 4:22 am)tackattack Wrote: 5-Are you intentionally being obtuse? There is finite matter in the known universe where the current adaptations of humanity can reach and survive in. In a future where we manipulate our own DNA to live thousands of years and an increase of control of our enviornment and increasing birth rates, is it not obvious that something will have to bend, and I doubt it will be the universe.
No, it isn't obvious. At all. You assume a lot in this paragraph. I was asking how you can assert these things without a point of reference in the world today. I can say we all evolve into ogres and live with talking donkeys, but I would have no way of knowing if that would be true or not.
(May 7, 2010 at 4:22 am)tackattack Wrote: 6-Sure. Assuming form is limiting; If you had a choice between form and formless existence which would you choose?
I don't know, what would a formless existence feel like?
(May 7, 2010 at 4:22 am)tackattack Wrote: 7-Then don't play, I don't feel there is any objectifiable proof that God exists.
Then why believe he does?
(May 7, 2010 at 4:22 am)tackattack Wrote: 8-Even a perfect circle isn't perfect atomically. It depends on your perspective. What seems absolute or perfect to humanity at this stage could end up being near perfectwith a different perspective.
You're obfuscating the point a bit. This wouldn't be perfection by human standards. Something that changes to adapt to its surroundings isn't perfect - perfection needs no change. Do you understand?