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Debunking of Modern Evolutionary and Cosmological Theories
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RE: Debunking of Modern Evolutionary and Cosmological Theories
Gomlbrobro, you seem to have a deeply, and I mean fundamentally, flawed understanding of how science works. Bullshit religious propaganda will do that to a person's mind. Science works with the data that is available to anyone who wants to study it. It doesn't stand or fall on account of some individual's claim to authority or "personal experience." Behe's book, Darwin's Black Box, was an enjoyable read but if you don't already have a grasp of the scientific method you won't realize when he (or anyone else who attempts a similar demonstration) is deviating from the style of scientific thought and advocating his own speculation in the guise of valid and sound reasoning. I don't think there is anything wrong with speculating about an alien species in white lab coats or a divine creature that spawns universe's from its incorporeal voice box as causes for existence, but you can't expect anyone to take you seriously without providing some evidence that your pet theory is at all useful as an explanation, by which I mean, it provides, even if just in principle, a means to test hypotheticals. Intelligent design offers no such test. It amounts to a god of the gaps. Even if chemists prior to the 20th century believed the origin of life would prove simpler the further we reduced biological structures, claiming that molecular machinery is very complex is not any indication that something supernatural causes atoms to group and change into the bodies that replicate themselves, thus spawning an arms race fueled by fluctuating environments and a competition where the fit survive. We ascribe laws to discoveries of that sort. If you want to reduce God to a law of physics, or the first principle of metaphysics, you ought to offer some utility in a way that Darwin's natural selection did and actually both explain and predict the phenomena you and your peers confront.
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza
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RE: Debunking of Modern Evolutionary and Cosmological Theories - by Mudhammam - April 24, 2015 at 11:22 pm

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