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Precision in Nature: Evidence of God or Accidents?

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Precision in Nature: Evidence of God or Accidents?
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RE: Precision in Nature: Evidence of God or Accidents?
May 14, 2012 at 2:03 am
Troll does not understand correlation =/= causation.

Trollogic phallusy: i.e., Troll is a dumb cock.
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RE: Precision in Nature: Evidence of God or Accidents?
May 14, 2012 at 2:16 am
How does this precision you speak of explain all these impact craters on the moon?


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Your god doesn't know shit about orbital mechanics.
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RE: Precision in NatuEvidence of God or Accidents?
May 14, 2012 at 6:32 am
(May 14, 2012 at 1:18 am)Alter2Ego Wrote: I'm using logic. Let me ask you a rhetorical question: The computer you're using to write me miles from where you are, did it simply pop up out of nowhere spontaneously? The point being, if the measly computer required an intelligent designer, the far more complex universe that dwarfs the computer--by all logic--must have also required an intelligent designer.

False analogy, argument from incredulity and misrepresenting the fact. Boy, you sure are flying through those fallacies.
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RE: Precision in Nature: Evidence of God or Accidents?
May 14, 2012 at 9:01 am (This post was last modified: May 14, 2012 at 9:07 am by The Grand Nudger.)
We don't see any precision in life, we see an impressive litany of heuristics. Heuristics are not evidence for god or accidents. One of the many benefits of heuristic problem solving over "precision" problem solving is that it does not require an exhaustive search or top down direction to achieve results. Convenient for life, since there doesn't seem to be any agent capable of undergoing such a search or providing top down directives (EbNS isn't capable of this any more than your beliefs are capable of this). Even more convenient in that even if there were, it doesn't seem to have given any attention to life (or anything else for that matter) in the first place.




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RE: Precision in Nature: Evidence of God or Accidents?
May 14, 2012 at 9:22 am
For AlterEgo
wiki Wrote:http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9G...xo33nKSQMA
"The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." G'Kar-B5
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RE: Precision in NatuEvidence of God or Accidents?
May 14, 2012 at 11:48 am
(May 14, 2012 at 1:18 am)Alter2Ego Wrote: I'm using logic. Let me ask you a rhetorical question: The computer you're using to write me miles from where you are, did it simply pop up out of nowhere spontaneously? The point being, if the measly computer required an intelligent designer, the far more complex universe that dwarfs the computer--by all logic--must have also required an intelligent designer.

Another example of Ray Comfort's asinine "the painting had a painter" analogy.

Well, let me ask you this... Did your deity create everything in existence?
Science flies us to the moon and stars. Religion flies us into buildings.

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