PostmodernProphet
fully immersed in faith..
How do you know it isn't?
because someone would be trotting it out as proof.......
How do you know it isn't?
because someone would be trotting it out as proof.......
It’s not a faulty premise: Life can’t be made to happen even when we try.
What’s faulty is the assumption that life can occur anytime the right conditions are in place.
do we have to prove it if we don't give a fuck if you believe it or not?.......
Even when we try?
We can recreate some of the conditions of the primordial earth, but not all & not in the same way or with the same circumstances, and not w/ the lengths of time needed.
It’s not a faulty premise: Life can’t be made to happen even when we try.
What’s faulty is the assumption that life can occur anytime the right conditions are in place.
And how would they find it?
The things that are created when we are way below what’s necessary even for a rudimentary form of life.
On what basis do we assume that life will occur anytime or anywhere conditions are right?
oh gosh, I forgot......nobody does science any more.....
That doesn't answer the question. If life arose - as essentially a one-celled, completely vulnerable organism, in a niche already filled & populated w/ all kinds of predators - how long would it survive, and how would someone who "does science" find it in that time?
It's not that there can't be a creator if science holds the truth, it's just that the Biblical version of God doesn't seem very likely.
The fundies have to have their Biblically approved form of God and nothing else. If it isn't spelled out for them in a book or on paper, they can't accept it.
so life that can survive is a rare thing but life isn't?......
We can't make ANY assumptions about it. We can't recreate a primordial earth, and we certainly can't "add" the periods of time that might have been necessary for life to arise.
But you’re assuming gobs of time would help lol.
How do we test that assumption?
Darth, you're the one who made the "infinitesimally small" assumption. I'm the one saying you can't assume that.
We can’t duplicate it even when we try to.
At minimum, the probability of life just happening to come into existence is ‘pretty danged’ small.
That’s being generous.
(sigh) HOW DO YOU KNOW WHEN YOU CAN'T ADD TIME TO THE EQUATION?
Even if it's a few thousand years, which is nothing on the geological scale. You're making faulty assumptions - sorry. That's it.