RE: Easy arguments against the Bible, and religion as a whole
December 16, 2011 at 12:37 pm
(This post was last modified: December 16, 2011 at 12:53 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
You gave up reasoning before you ever posted any of this. Sure, lets go with numbers. I'll even accept every one of the numbers your pastor or whatever garbage peddler you report to provided you with as fact.
20 billion years to hit the right combination you say? So it would take what, 10 candidate amino acids 2 billion years? 100 candidates .2b? 1,000 candidates .02b. Fuck what took so long? Oh that's right, this place is hostile and not at all designed to support life. You keep appoaching this from an angle which is irreconcilably tainted by your belief in creation. You've assumed a single acid molecule flipping a coin waiting for the right combination to become a creator. Try all amino acids constantly flipping coins, some hitting the jackpot and then being extinguished immediately. The "miracle" wasn't abiogenesis, it was survival. This assuming that the earth wasn't seeded, or any other of the innumerable theories regarding the origins of life on earth. You seem to ignore, or be blissfully unaware that there is more than one potential pathway for life. Your appeal to numbers is utter garbage. Even so, that something may be unbelievable improbably proves your goddidit proposition exactly how? If you spent as much time trying to make your own case as you spend criticizing the work of others where it contradicts your fairy tale you may have had more meat to work with by the time you posted here. Probably not though, since better men than you or I have tried and failed for centuries. There is a point where you have checked under so many rocks, went down so many rabbit holes and come out with nothing that you have to begin to wonder if there was ever anything to the question in the first place. That point had been reached for gods a long time ago, but we're stubborn and don't like to give up on a good narrative. What you have is not science, and will not be confirmed by science. It is a belief in the subjective meaning of a collection of stories which you were made familiar with due to the prevailing cultural traditions in your region or family. It is not a cosmology, it is not an explanation of our origins (or anything at all). It is not a factual accurate description of anything that exists beyond our own minds. Stop looking for science in fairy tales, it's embarrassing.
20 billion years to hit the right combination you say? So it would take what, 10 candidate amino acids 2 billion years? 100 candidates .2b? 1,000 candidates .02b. Fuck what took so long? Oh that's right, this place is hostile and not at all designed to support life. You keep appoaching this from an angle which is irreconcilably tainted by your belief in creation. You've assumed a single acid molecule flipping a coin waiting for the right combination to become a creator. Try all amino acids constantly flipping coins, some hitting the jackpot and then being extinguished immediately. The "miracle" wasn't abiogenesis, it was survival. This assuming that the earth wasn't seeded, or any other of the innumerable theories regarding the origins of life on earth. You seem to ignore, or be blissfully unaware that there is more than one potential pathway for life. Your appeal to numbers is utter garbage. Even so, that something may be unbelievable improbably proves your goddidit proposition exactly how? If you spent as much time trying to make your own case as you spend criticizing the work of others where it contradicts your fairy tale you may have had more meat to work with by the time you posted here. Probably not though, since better men than you or I have tried and failed for centuries. There is a point where you have checked under so many rocks, went down so many rabbit holes and come out with nothing that you have to begin to wonder if there was ever anything to the question in the first place. That point had been reached for gods a long time ago, but we're stubborn and don't like to give up on a good narrative. What you have is not science, and will not be confirmed by science. It is a belief in the subjective meaning of a collection of stories which you were made familiar with due to the prevailing cultural traditions in your region or family. It is not a cosmology, it is not an explanation of our origins (or anything at all). It is not a factual accurate description of anything that exists beyond our own minds. Stop looking for science in fairy tales, it's embarrassing.
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