Designed to deceive: Creation can't hold up to rigors of science

CONTRA COSTA TIMES ^ | 12 February 2006 | John Glennon

[Right Wing Professor]

you can't have Predators without Prey.

Is that another law? Have you then abandoned 'omne vivum e vivo'?

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Science is not capable of examining the question of whether or not there is a God.

LOL. And yet they do it all the time.

It's the oldest lie there is -- that something living can be born out of something dead by the inherent physical properties of the thing itself and by other inert materials acting upon it.

Alchemy.

No God required.

[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

This from someone who routinely packs insults into his posts. You don't offend me, but only because I consider you a lunatic.

Did I even ping you to my #1853?

I don't remember even asking whether or not I offended you...
...but, if you'd like to share your opinion -- um, okay. So noted.

[CarolinaGuitarman]

"LOL. And yet they do it all the time."

No, they don't.

"It's the oldest lie there is -- that something living can be born out of something dead by the inherent physical properties of the thing itself and by other inert materials acting upon it."

LOL Whatever you say, God.

[Right Wing Professor]

Viruses are incapable of living and reproducing outside the host cell

By the way, this is no longer true. Cell-free systems have been developed that allow viruses to replicate.

[jwalsh07]

It's not up to the level of a theory yet, though it has made testable claims and is a working hypothesis. Your claim that it will never be possible to know the initial conditions is based on... what?

It is based on the fact that no evidence of any prebiotic soup has ever been found and that it is now improbable that it will ever be found. No soup for you so to speak.

Now tell me how you're hypothesis that life on Earth arose chemically from natural sources can be falsified.

[Right Wing Professor]

You're welcome. Of course, your mental instability only partially mitigates your appalling behavior.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

LOL.

(your turn)

[Thatcherite]

By posting this, are you saying that you accept the resurrection of the dead?

No, St Augustine was addressing Christians like you, not infidels like me. Does his message have no resonance with you?

[jwalsh07]

Cell-free systems have been developed that allow viruses to replicate.

Nice engineering.

[Lurking Libertarian]

Unstable placemarker.

[CarolinaGuitarman]

"It is based on the fact that no evidence of any prebiotic soup has ever been found and that it is now improbable that it will ever be found. No soup for you so to speak."

The initial conditions of the earth ARE knowable. Sorry, you're just flat wrong.

"Now tell me how you're hypothesis that life on Earth arose chemically from natural sources can be falsified."

Find that the Earth conditions were not suitable to the formation of life.

[VadeRetro]

BTW, you don't seem to appreciate what a marvelous clue to the origins of life viruses are. The idea has been around for some time that viruses might be evidence for (and living descendants of) RNA-World. The discovery of Mimivirus has bolstered that hypothesis.

[CarolinaGuitarman]

I was laughing at your arrogance for assuming what God could or could not have been capable of. :)

[forsnax5]

No finite number of informed responses to raving lunatics in public forums is going to forestall other raving lunatics from continuing their campaign. (Pharyngula blog comment)

Lunatic Placemarker

[Dr. Eckleburg]

LOL.

[zeeba neighba]

I have no interest in your opinions. I'd appreciate it if you wouldn't ping me to your posts.

Yet you started the thread to attack Christian believers. Just because you are losing now you want to go lalala, I can't hear you. lol

[jwalsh07]

The initial conditions of the earth ARE knowable. Sorry, you're just flat wrong.

Just so science at it's worst. You know this how?

Find that the Earth conditions were not suitable to the formation of life.

Prove the negative? How would you go about doing that?

Your hypothesis thus far is not falsifiable.

[Right Wing Professor]

True, but baiting loonies is fun.

(Blood sport, I know, but I enjoy it)

[Alamo-Girl]

Above all, what does that doctrine say about Jesus the Messiah coming in the flesh?

Then we could assign a number from the scale.

I agree! Thank you so much for your excellent posts, dear brother in Christ.