solid proof of evolution

[Nordberg]

they have named logical fallacies after you.....

And illogical ones named after you. At least I am logical. You are religious and contort yourself into twisted ideas that distill down to " i was taught that way and I still believe it.' I will not accept logic and evidence, because after hearing it" I intend to continue belief. Cannot be too proud have carrying that mental burden around ,can you?

[Joe Capitalist]

Muslim pets? Are you OK? Do you imagine that you are being responsive to a post or the thread? WTF are you talking about? Evolution is a fact. It does not matter what any religious people think. It stays a fact.

Of course evolution is fact. Are you kidding? Who doesn't believe in evolution these days? Believing in anything other than evolution is like believing in witches, Adam & Eve or that the earth is geocentric. People believed that hundreds of years ago but nobody believes that bullshit now.

[rjhenn]

So if one cannot see or prove something it must not exist. Is that your hypothesis? Is space limitless? There are some things that can't be proven but we must accept. So just because we can't prove that God created life we do know it exists. To the best of my knowledge science can only assume how life started as there is no positive proof on how it happened. Of all the planets in our solar system why is this the only planet that life evolved on. No pal I believe there was a higher power at work here than just plain luck.

How do you know that this is the only planet that life formed (not evolved) on? If life had formed on a different planet, and not here, and evolved into intelligent life forms, would they be arguing that there must be a higher power at work?

[Cypress]

Of course evolution is fact. Are you kidding? Who doesn't believe in evolution these days? Believing in anything other than evolution is like believing in witches, Adam & Eve or that the earth is geocentric. People believed that hundreds of years ago but nobody believes that bullshit now.

One thing I have learned during my message board adventures, is that there are a shitload of Republicans that do not accept evolution.

And for these ignoramuses, I can only recommend a visit to the Creation Science Museum in Kentucky, where they can learn about early humans and their dinosaur friends.

[rjhenn]

I have asked this several times. Why would it be impossible for God to have created life and set the prameters for that life to evolve? There are other options beside's pure creationism and pure evolution.

Well, it's not, but that's not what the Bible says happened and not what Christians insist must have happened.

[rjhenn]

That’s wrong. Science has nothing to say about the existence of God as it is a question completely outside the scope of science.

He said nothing about science. The idea that an omnipotent and benevolent God would hide from us is ridiculous.

[rjhenn]

How do you know it isn't?

It probably is still happening. But such primitive life forms wouldn't be able to compete with the more evolved life forms that already swarm the planet, and would almost immediately be consumed.

[rjhenn]

It’s not a faulty premise: Life can’t be made to happen even when we try.

Maybe we just don't know how yet.

What’s faulty is the assumption that life can occur anytime the right conditions are in place.

How is that assumption faulty?

[rjhenn]

No, the best evidence we have says the probability of life occurring by chance is small: no one has ever witnessed it and we can’t even make it happen when we try. It’s a sound, evidence-based conclusion.

An assumption is an assumption whether it has could or would in front of it.

You get points for the ‘could’ though.

Of course, "we can’t even make it happen when we try" because we don't know how to make it happen. Yet.

[Cancel 2020.1]

It probably is still happening. But such primitive life forms wouldn't be able to compete with the more evolved life forms that already swarm the planet, and would almost immediately be consumed.

There have been almost endless assertions on this thread that it "only happened once."

How in the world would anyone know that to be true, either billions of years ago or in the past few minutes?

[rjhenn]

My point is untestable assumptions aren’t very scientific lol.

God is imminently plausible. But God isn’t testable.

God isn't even plausible.

[rjhenn]

You have your own religion but you’re oblivious to it lol.

And what religion would that be?

[rjhenn]

actually that’s another ground rule of science. All knowledge is tentative.

And the fact that we know next to nothing is what caused us to invent God.

[rjhenn]

actually that’s another ground rule of science. All knowledge is tentative.

God is the most parsimonious explanation since it only requires introducing one extraneous factor instead of an infinite number of them.

Also, the multiverse just kicks the can of infinite regression down the road.

Hence, an infinite mind behind the universe is a rational philosophic conclusion.

"an infinite mind behind the universe" is just wishful thinking, an attempt to avoid thinking about the universe.

[Darth Omar]

"an infinite mind behind the universe" is just wishful thinking, an attempt to avoid thinking about the universe.

How so?

Also you forgot to refute the argument.