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RE: Chemical evolution of amino acids and proteins ? Impossible !!
December 21, 2019 at 1:53 pm
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(December 21, 2019 at 12:04 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: (December 21, 2019 at 11:39 am)Otangelo Wrote: A intelligent designer creates through power, information input ( words ), wisdom, and will. But how exactly does this work ?
We don't know how exactly a mind might can act in the world to cause change. Your mind, mediated by your brain, sends signals to your arm , hand and fingers, and writes a text through the keyboard of the computer I sit here typing. I cannot explain to you how exactly this process functions, but we know, it happens. Consciusness can interact with the physical world and cause change. But how exactly that happens, we don't know. Why then should we expect to know how God created the universe ? The theory of intelligent design proposes a intelligent mental cause as origin of the physical world. Nothing else.
W.L.Craig :
First, in order to recognize an explanation as the best, one needn't have an explanation of the explanation. This is an elementary point concerning inference to the best explanation as practiced in the philosophy of science. If archaeologists digging in the earth were to discover things looking like arrowheads and hatchet heads and pottery shards, they would be justified in inferring that these artifacts are not the chance result of sedimentation and metamorphosis, but products of some unknown group of people, even though they had no explanation of who these people were or where they came from. Similarly, if astronauts were to come upon a pile of machinery on the back side of the moon, they would be justified in inferring that it was the product of intelligent, extra-terrestrial agents, even if they had no idea whatsoever who these extra-terrestrial agents were or how they got there. In order to recognize an explanation as the best, one needn't be able to explain the explanation. In fact, so requiring would lead to an infinite regress of explanations, so that nothing could ever be explained and science would be destroyed. So in the case at hand, in order to recognize that intelligent design is the best explanation of the appearance of design in the universe, one needn't be able to explain the designer.
The best explanation of the origin and life and biodiversity is: intelligence. Conscious activity. The deliberate choice of a rational agent. Indeed, we have abundant experience in the present of intelligent agents generating specified information. Our experience of the causal powers of intelligent agents -- of "conscious activity" as "a cause now in operation"-- provides a basis for making inferences about the best explanation of the origin of biological organisms in the past. In other words, our experience of the cause-and-effect structure of the world -- specifically the cause known to produce large amounts of specified information in the present -- provides a basis for understanding what likely caused large increases in specified information in living systems in the past. It is precisely my reliance on such experience that makes possible an understanding of the type of causes at work in the history of life.
Bold mine.
Then I suppose, by your own saying so, you don’t need an explanation of the explanation of evolution by natural selection, despite the fact that we actually have one, lol. Right? We even have some decent examples of how abiogenesis might have kicked off thanks to some ‘oopsies’ in the lab involving a forgotten Petrie dish plus time. You’re going to have to do better than regurgitating “It looks designed, therefore design.” Was a snowflake designed? Do you have any idea how many times we’ve refuted this garbage argument? How does an immaterial thing exist, Otangelo? How does a spaceless, timeless being be? How does it act in the absence of time and space? Not only are you burdened with providing those mechanisms of action, you are burdened with the evidence to support them. Otherwise, they’re simply bald assertions. Care to try again? Yup the "design inference" is the laziest apologist tool next to "mysterious ways"
(December 21, 2019 at 1:53 pm)brewer Wrote: (December 21, 2019 at 11:39 am)Otangelo Wrote: The best explanation of the origin and life and biodiversity is: intelligence. Conscious activity. The deliberate choice of a rational agent.
Please provide me with concrete evidence of this intelligent/conscious/rational agent. Not argument, not "I can't think of anything better", not "because I need there to be" but evidence.
Until you can do that, go away fantasy boy. Or any agent at all that can create life or even a star .Of course is going to be likely dumb analogy were he compares man made objects to something that's not then insist they are the same due to some variation of "complexity ' then he will make another unsupported comparison .Then end it with an Argument for ignorance mixed with a lack of imagination and lots of personnel credulity and a non sequitur .
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RE: Chemical evolution of amino acids and proteins ? Impossible !!
December 21, 2019 at 2:15 pm
(December 21, 2019 at 11:39 am)Otangelo Wrote: The best explanation of the origin and life and biodiversity is: intelligence. Conscious activity. The deliberate choice of a rational agent. Life was either caused by an intelligence or not. So far we have absolutely no data that points towards intelligence.
Therefore intelligence is the best explanation?
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RE: Chemical evolution of amino acids and proteins ? Impossible !!
December 21, 2019 at 2:34 pm
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(December 21, 2019 at 2:15 pm)Deesse23 Wrote: (December 21, 2019 at 11:39 am)Otangelo Wrote: The best explanation of the origin and life and biodiversity is: intelligence. Conscious activity. The deliberate choice of a rational agent. Life was either caused by an intelligence or not. So far we have absolutely no data that points towards intelligence.
Therefore intelligence is the best explanation?  And pointing to humanity extremely limited ability to manipulate preexisting features of he universe comes nowhere near implying any intelligence created life the universe and everything .Let alone one who did it by non natural means .
So far his "best explanation" seems to be one of ideological and apologetic convenience
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RE: Chemical evolution of amino acids and proteins ? Impossible !!
December 21, 2019 at 3:30 pm
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(December 21, 2019 at 11:39 am)Otangelo Wrote: A intelligent designer creates through power, information input ( words ), wisdom, and will. But how exactly does this work ?
We don't know how exactly a mind might can act in the world to cause change. Your mind, mediated by your brain, sends signals to your arm , hand and fingers, and writes a text through the keyboard of the computer I sit here typing. I cannot explain to you how exactly this process functions, but we know, it happens. Consciusness can interact with the physical world and cause change. But how exactly that happens, we don't know. Why then should we expect to know how God created the universe ? The theory of intelligent design proposes a intelligent mental cause as origin of the physical world. Nothing else. And there's your problem. Science does not yet have a definitive explanation for how abiogenesis happened (although the are more than a few candidate hypotheses). Thus the correct scientific answer to abiogenesis is "We don't know (yet), but we have promising lines of research".
You are claiming to have a full explanation from out of nowhere with no supporting evidence of any kind. All you have is an argument from ignorance. You don't know how it could happen therefore it must be "GOD".
And besides, it has already been long established that amino acids (the building blocks of life) spontaneously form given the right conditions. As do lipids ( the constituents of cell walls) Which said lipids then go on to spontaneously form a cell wall of their lonesome merely by chemistry.
It seems clear that you are ignoring everything that science has already established simply to concentrate your attention those things science has not yet established. With those blinkers in place, you miss each and every step in the scientific process and it's progress.
Somehow, you seem stuck right the way back in the state of science in the 19th century as though nothing had happened since.
It is more than a little odd.
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RE: Chemical evolution of amino acids and proteins ? Impossible !!
December 21, 2019 at 3:47 pm
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RE: Chemical evolution of amino acids and proteins ? Impossible !!
December 21, 2019 at 4:55 pm
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RE: Chemical evolution of amino acids and proteins ? Impossible !!
December 21, 2019 at 5:17 pm
(December 21, 2019 at 11:39 am)Otangelo Wrote: Why then should we expect to know how God created the universe ? The theory of intelligent design proposes a intelligent mental cause as origin of the physical world. Nothing else.
So not only have you failed to even show that your Creator exists but you can't even begin to conceive of how it could possibly Create. This is why ID isn't a theory. It has all of the explanatory capability of a steaming dog turd.
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RE: Chemical evolution of amino acids and proteins ? Impossible !!
December 21, 2019 at 5:17 pm
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So your counter is
A bad article about Bayesian probability theory and a guy with a dubious track record of misusing it for his Christian apologetic s (Luke)
A Quote from an ID propagandist
A Gish's Gallop of links which don't address my point
Trying to use the factory maker argument to pop up your bad comparison and unsupported conclusion and opinion quote from Herschel to further boost it
Truly incredible all that effort to write that wall of text and your point is still as vapid as before you wrote it .
Quote:can being come from non-being ?
A whole thread made a mockery out of his tactic
Quote:Why then should we expect to know how God created the universe ? The theory of intelligent design proposes a intelligent mental cause as origin of the physical world. Nothing else.
And you have failed to show even this
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RE: Chemical evolution of amino acids and proteins ? Impossible !!
December 21, 2019 at 5:43 pm
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RE: Chemical evolution of amino acids and proteins ? Impossible !!
December 21, 2019 at 5:45 pm
(December 21, 2019 at 4:55 pm)Otangelo Wrote: (December 21, 2019 at 2:15 pm)Deesse23 Wrote: Life was either caused by an intelligence or not. So far we have absolutely no data that points towards intelligence.
Therefore intelligence is the best explanation? 
can being come from non-being ? Do you always respond to questions with deflections?
Show the data that points towards intelligence as a source for life, data other than founded in your lack of imaginations or abundance of ignorance.
Do you have any original thoughts or do you often copy pasta walls of text to impress the (other) gullible?
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