(December 13, 2019 at 6:23 pm)Yukon_Jack Wrote: If you would listen to Tour, in about 23 minutes he dispells the notion that time can create life and runs ramshod over Jack Szostaks abiogenesis theory.
"dispells the notion that time can create life"? I wonder why can't anyone prove God directly instead of "disproving" something and "therefore God"?
The thing with abiogenesis is that it is not a fully observed process, not everything is known about it, but to stop and settle into what some ancient sheep herders said in the Bible would be ridiculous. Science will go on, and if you put God at the gaps of knowledge we have now will just make it harder for future people who will then have radical religious people blowing themselves up and killing scientists for "debunking" their God.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"