(May 24, 2015 at 6:05 pm)comet Wrote:(May 24, 2015 at 10:55 am)Esquilax Wrote: I honestly can't tell if you're being serious or not, but if you are, you're rather overstating your case.
I think it's pretty clear, contextually, what I mean: no apparent divinely instantiated purpose. Even the passing on of information isn't a purpose in the way theists want to use the word, it's just what organisms do, a consequence of the fact that the ones that didn't died and didn't leave any offspring behind.
Animals know how to reproduce. DNA doesn't know how to replicate, it's just the chemical reaction that happens.
Yeah, because I'm so apt to respond to people who just demand that things are facts, absent any evidence.
Life forms are shaped by their surrounding systems, in that their survival hinges on being able to exist within that environment, but to call that design is misleading, as there's no prior intent or conscious planning going into the thing, anything that we might reasonably say is a hallmark of design. It's just a series of mutations, and the question of whether they are good enough to survive the ecosystem.
Probably gonna have to go into more detail than a vague "the data." Theist apologists demonstrate quite neatly that data can be skewed any which-a-way, if the interlocutor is desperate enough to reach a conclusion.
Not even wasting my time. To you apologists is a bad thing. I see them as at least trying to change based on new information. Weather is or is not a god is irrelevant me. I am only anti-over-organized religion. So we are at a impasse already.
you have a belief of no god. you really are not interested in things like space being "something" (as shown by nasa), the laws of thermodynamics, or information being stored in states of matter and being expressed while the states change. so in the end you, like most, won't care what the facts are and will just say "nope I don't believe that.". Just like theist do with evolution.
lmao, nature doesn't "know" but human sure do. That's just funny.
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