Atheism is unreasonable

[Mister Agenda]

In other words, "time of the gaps" reasoning is being used.

Unlike God or an intelligent designer of life, time can be demonstrated, and it can be shown that life forms do change over time. You don't doubt that time exists, do you? You shouldn't imitate phrases you don't fully understand.

Once you start the "it took millions of generations", or "it took millions of years"...once you start to say that, you are leaving science and diving right into the portal of religion.

Since you clearly don't mean 'based on evidence, mathematics, and logical reasoning', I'm at a loss to imagine what portal of religion 'it took millions of generations' involves.

It happened that fast. You are relying on the unseen...and not only that, but the statement "it takes millions of years", that statement in itself cannot be scientifically validated.

Time can't be seen, but it's effects can be directly observed; as we do with the effects of the wind, which we also can't see. You don't understand what the term 'scientific validation' means if you think we have to see something directly in order to draw scientific conclusions about it. And if I ever find myself in the position of trying to make time and change seem mystical and supernatural I hope I'm smart enough to realize that I'm probably wrong about whatever I'm trying to use it as an analogy for.

You cannot conduct an experiment to draw that kind of conclusion, can you? Nor can you conduct an experiment to predict when the next change would occur.

In historical sciences, predictions are made about what will be discovered, based on what we should find if the theory is true. Evolution delivers on this over and over. We find fossils in the strata and on the landform they should be in if evolution is true. We predict species diversity on unexplored islands based on distance from other land masses and time separated from them, because the longer the island has been separated from other landmasses, the more novel species it will have. And we have observed speciation on a human timescale. There's a point where it comes perverse to see something happening, find evidence it's been happening for a long time, and keep crying we can't know it if we weren't there. By that standard, we have to throw out geology along with paleontology, and frankly, most of history as well. The same bullet that you think shoots evolution in the foot would blow a big hole through the heart of historical claims derived from ancient scriptures.

So you are basically not even using science!!!

Science isn't what you think it is, and whoever miseducated you so badly should apologize.

But it's the 21st Century and it's easier to educate yourself than ever.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science