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RE: Here's why Creatards might be right
October 28, 2015 at 3:04 am
Say this reality was created by a being in another reality. Was that reality planned as well? Just stating that it isn't is the exact same special pleading that God fails under. It doesn't answer the mystery, it replaces it with another mystery.
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RE: Here's why Creatards might be right
October 28, 2015 at 4:49 am
turtles or vats all the way down ...
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RE: Here's why Creatards might be right
October 28, 2015 at 5:12 am
(This post was last modified: October 28, 2015 at 5:12 am by ErGingerbreadMandude.)
Imagine a motorcycle.
When we turn the accelerator the motorcycle moves forward.
Why does the motorcycle move forward?
The motorcycle moves forward because the motorcycle was designed to move forward when someone turn the accelerator.
Now imagine yourself.
When you walk forward you move forward.
Why do you move forward when you walk towards that direction?
We move forward when we walk towards that direction because we were designed to move forward when we walk towards that direction.
Designed by who? I honestly have no idea
You can relate this example with literally everything that happens in our daily life
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RE: Here's why Creatards might be right
October 28, 2015 at 5:40 am
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You're simply stating that we were designed. We have very good evolutionary models of how we came to be just the way we are. Our legs move forwards because we send electrical impulses from our brains instructing them to move forward. It's not the same as a motorcycle, of which we have countless examples of it actually being designed. They didn't evolve, at least not in the same way.
I'd seriously suggest studying evolution in much more detail.
I think you're making assumptions about agency, that there must always be a reason behind everything. The problem with that is there must be a reason behind the reason, and so on.
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RE: Here's why Creatards might be right
October 28, 2015 at 6:24 am
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I know where you're coming from Pooley.
The answer is "Nature is our blind designer".
She designs squillions of silly things that don't work. What happens? They die off. Only those species who were capable of surviving their environment prospered.
It might look like design, but that's the cheat's answer! Nature has been playing the lottery for billions of years. The odds of her NOT coming up with a win in that time is, well, like winning the lottery...
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RE: Here's why Creatards might be right
October 28, 2015 at 6:52 am
What about the poor hippo things that thought they'd go for a swim in the deep ocean till they remembered that they haven't developed fins yet! It wasn't pretty.
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