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RE: Intelligent Design
January 13, 2016 at 10:14 pm
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(January 13, 2016 at 10:10 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: (January 13, 2016 at 10:07 pm)ApeNotKillApe Wrote: I'd like you to consider how many people throughout history have died very painful deaths for no other reason than that an organ that they didn't need in the first place became infected.
The number of people that died from infections of impacted wisdom teeth (because we have a gene for more teeth than out jaws can handle, an atavism from our ancestors with bigger jaws), dwarfs the number of people that died from appendicitis.
That's saying something, considering that appendicitis is still pretty common, and on an unrelated note, most commonly affects children. Good work, Jesus.
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RE: Intelligent Design
January 13, 2016 at 10:19 pm
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RE: Intelligent Design
January 13, 2016 at 10:31 pm
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RE: Intelligent Design
January 13, 2016 at 10:37 pm
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(December 23, 2015 at 5:32 pm)Veritas Wrote: What's the best way to refute the argument that we were intelligently designed?
I wouldn't care to get more specific than to acknowledge that the 'method' of our refinement is certainly efficacious. Natural selection is to be congratulated .. I guess.
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RE: Intelligent Design
January 13, 2016 at 10:48 pm
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RE: Intelligent Design
January 13, 2016 at 11:03 pm
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(January 13, 2016 at 10:19 pm)pool the great Wrote: People seem to have this concept backwards.
There is no rare conditions that can permit life. This is false concept. Life evolves in such a manner so that it can survive in a given environment - this is what evolution states. Adjusting to the environment. The environment is not what adjusts itself to facilitate life.
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Quote:But this then naturally gives rise to another question:
Why aren't there life on another planet which is as old as earth?
I remember asking this question to my teacher when I was in 10th grade and he replied that it was due to the extreme conditions in another planets, like say, mars.
Life like ours would not exist where the conditions did not allow it. Ours is the only kind we know of. Amusingly, we may fail to recognize life unlike our own where it does exist. No point of reference.
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RE: Intelligent Design
January 13, 2016 at 11:08 pm
Given a sample size of one - our planet - to say anything about life in the universe beyond what we know about what's on our planet is idiotic. We've had virtually no up close observation of other bodies.
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RE: Intelligent Design
January 13, 2016 at 11:13 pm
(January 13, 2016 at 11:08 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: Given a sample size of one - our planet - to say anything about life in the universe beyond what we know about what's on our planet is idiotic. We've had virtually no up close observation of other bodies.
Speak for yourself.
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RE: Intelligent Design
January 13, 2016 at 11:18 pm
(January 13, 2016 at 11:13 pm)ApeNotKillApe Wrote: (January 13, 2016 at 11:08 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: Given a sample size of one - our planet - to say anything about life in the universe beyond what we know about what's on our planet is idiotic. We've had virtually no up close observation of other bodies.
Speak for yourself.
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RE: Intelligent Design
January 13, 2016 at 11:33 pm
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