RE: The Case for Atheism
August 9, 2014 at 8:48 am
(This post was last modified: August 9, 2014 at 9:02 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 8, 2014 at 7:52 am)Alex25 Wrote: I have a question: I have a friend who is a theist, and he had an argument to which I couldn't really reply reasonably. He said:Tell your friend that the changing color of fruit is due to the release of ethylene which interacts with the chlorophyll or xanthophyll present in the cells of the fruits surface tissue. Anytime the fruit is exposed to this simple chemical process it will appear to "ripen" even if it's still "stone-green"(as in the case of tomatos). There are other chemicals, as well diseases, naturally occurring, which cause this transformation. It could be, for example, that the one ripe fruit in a bunch of green fruits -in the wild- is, in fact, toxic or poisonous(and will sicken/kill your friends silly ass when he thinks that's god signalling him that the fruit is ready to eat). The color of fruit is informative, but not conclusive, and to be blunt, fruit (and plants in general) are -always "ready to be eaten"......it all depends on who the diner is. Your friends "logic" only shows that he thinks the world revolves around him and what he likes to eat.
In nature, when a fruit is ready to be eaten, it changes its color from green to yellow, red, orange, blue, purpule etc.
However, before all fruits can be eaten they are all green, and that's a sign of a design in nature, that tells both animals and humans not to eat.
To be honest, his logic seems quite good, and I don't know what to say.. any ideas?
Quote: animals learn that green fruit (looking like leaves) doesn't taste good and leave it alone.I wish someone would tell that to my aphids, nasty little bastards, lol. You know how much money those fuckers cost me this year......I'm about ready to go on a pogrom up in this piece. Don't even get me started on the hornworms and stinkbugs. I've been engaged in a brutal forever war with these helpful little werewolves so long that I resort straight to biological weapons without a moments hesitation anymore. Used to pick em off, mechanical intervention, screw that - my fingers are likely to fall off before I ever made a blip
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