(November 2, 2014 at 1:44 pm)Jenny A Wrote: Glad it's fine, because I can't help it. It is a ridiculous belief in many ways.
Many? Give me one.
(November 2, 2014 at 1:44 pm)Jenny A Wrote: I just love it when people tell me what I have to believe.
If the shoe fits.
(November 2, 2014 at 1:44 pm)Jenny A Wrote: First of all, not believing that a god who always existed brought life into being by magic is not the same as believing that anyone knows how life came about.
What are you talking about, Jenny? If the God hypothesis is out of the equation, then it is quite obvious that the only game left in town is abiogenesis.
It isn't as if there are a million different possibilities and naturalism and supernaturalism is just two of the million possibilities. No. Those are the only two games in town.
There is an active poll question on here right now that asks the question "Do you believe in God", and 87% of you said no. It seems pretty clear as to what the majority position is on here.
(November 2, 2014 at 1:44 pm)Jenny A Wrote: And life coming out of dead matter is no more unbelievable, in fact less so than either and god said it and puff it happened, or god made us out of clay (dead matter).
I am speaking of which is more plausible. I can conceive an omnipotent being being able to create life out of nonliving material. I cannot conceive of dead matter floating in space for past eternity and suddenly coming to life. If this did in fact happen, you should be able to demonstrate this in a lab, but you can't, which gives me the implication that nature, as mindless and blind as it is, was able to do something billions of years ago that intelligent human beings isn't able to do, and that is create life from non-life, and consciousness from unconsciousness.
(November 2, 2014 at 1:44 pm)Jenny A Wrote: Secondly, I know of no scientific hypotheses for the origins of life that involves matter drifting around in space suddenly springing to life
So Jenny, before life and earth originated, are you saying that preexisting matter wasn't floating around in space?? Wow. Ok, so what was going on then?
(November 2, 2014 at 1:44 pm)Jenny A Wrote: , let alone immediately thinking, talking, and having sex.
Keyword: Immediately. Notice the emphasis placed on that word, because Jenny would have people believe that it happened over the course of millions of years, right? With so much time, anything could have happened, right?
(November 2, 2014 at 1:44 pm)Jenny A Wrote: There's a summary here of the current theories about how very simple life may have begun. Wikipedia: Abiogenesis There's a better and broader discussion here: Talk Origins: Abiogenesis
You can theorize all you like...until you can demonstrate it...until it is demonstrated by tests/repeated experiment, then it is just a theory.
(November 2, 2014 at 1:44 pm)Jenny A Wrote: Only religions posit instant complex life complete with language and sex. The explanations vary from god said, fashioning out of clay or water, being shit out by god, or carved out of wood. Think about it. It's all magic.
Magic? Consciousness from unconsciousness is worse than magic, because on your view, there isn't even a magician (God), things are just happening for no scientific reasoning whatsoever. "Voodoo science" is what it is.
(November 2, 2014 at 1:44 pm)Jenny A Wrote: There always was a being capable of making things spring into existence merely by saying "let there be. . ." Now that's crazy. Think about it.
But it is conceivable, though. Life from nonlife isn't naturally conceivable. I can conceive of it happening, just not naturally. Life from nonlife can not be described by natural law, nor can consciousness from unconsciousness.
(November 2, 2014 at 1:44 pm)Jenny A Wrote: But you believe that the is an uncreated sentient being that can create life by just saying let there be life? Now that's faith.
A being that exists necessarily and therefore was not a produce of something that preceded it, yes.