(August 10, 2017 at 9:48 am)rjh4 is back Wrote:(August 10, 2017 at 9:15 am)Brian37 Wrote: GIANT WALL OF APOLOGY=ALLAH
GIANT WALL OF APOLOGY=YAHWEH
GIANT WALL OF APOLOGY=BUDDHA
GIANT WALL OF APOLOGY=VISHNU
GIANT WALL OF APOLOGY=THOR
GIANT WALL OF APOLOGY=YODA
Do any of those options above work for you? No? GREAT, that should also help you understand why I reject your nonsense as well.
You don't have anything and you are not arguing anything new. That was then, this is now. It was understandable back then when humans didn't know any better, but we know better now.
I have no idea what your initial point is. Could be I'm dense. Could be you are a horrible communicator. Of course I would pick the latter and assume you would pick the former.
Anyway, regarding: "It was understandable back then when humans didn't know any better, but we know better now."
As it relates to evidence, I think the more we understand, the more problems it raises for a naturalistic explanations. Think about it. When cellular live was seen as just a black box unknown, it is easy to imagine things just spontaneously happening. Think: Spontaneous Generation. But the more we learn about the complexity of the cell and all that is needed for replication, it seems harder and harder for a naturalistic explanation to make any sense whatsoever. So to me, a naturalistic viewpoint was more understandable back then when humans didn't know any better, but we know better now.
What an addled response! Spontaneous Generation was a "naturalistic" viewpoint only in the sense that it didn't explicitly invoke a god, though it might as well have since it had exactly the same explanatory scope and power: nil. The rest is nothing more than an argument from ignorance and incredulity. Yes, cell biology is extremely complex. You know how we know that? Because methodological naturalism has revealed the cell's complex (and, so far, entirely natural) mechanisms. It certainly wasn't revealed to us by imaginary friends or holy scripture.
Luckily for all of us, the men and women who study cell biology for a living don't throw up their hands in the face of difficult problems and invoke the supernatural/magic/favorite-imaginary-friend as an "explanation" for what we don't currently understand.
