Also with that analogy he weakens his own absurd argument.
For those nickels are not just random slugs of nickel ore buried in the ground somewhere tossing themselves about. No it is nickel ore that has been mined purified into nickel formed into a flat circular shape with a different pattern on each side and then flipped by him to get his answer.
Every minute part of his analogy took a consciousness to discern (nickel from ore, pattern on the nickel etc) and make a decision act upon that (flip the nickel etc).
And with the hypothetical precursor to a cell I saw earlier in the thread, they unwittingly put the light on just how absurd their beliefs are. They hypothesize that these less complex but extremely complex molecular activities are going on (by their own volition as it were) in the primitive precursor of a cell, and somehow the processes unconsciously develop even more improbable processes.
Or take the scenario wherein they hypothesize a primitive cell (prokaryote) ingested some aerobic bacteria and converted these aerobic bacteria into mitochondria.
Absurdity to an academically advanced degree
How does a primitive cell a primitive process become cognizant of food/energy) the need for food the recognizing what food is, the taking in of food the digestion of food. And then how would these primitive process's then discern that the absorbed aerobic bacteria might be better used as a mitochondrial engine rather than being consumed with in the cell.
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