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| 12/4/08
| Purple Mountains
Posted on 12/04/2008 5:02:31 AM PST by PurpleMountains
A priceless scene appears in the movie, Expelled, when Ben Stein asks the leading proponent of Darwinism and atheism, Richard Dawkins, how life began. After sputtering for a few moments, Dawkins offers the thought that some advanced creature from outer space may have seeded life on earth, exposing the fact that Darwinists, who have an answer for everything, have no answer for this most basic question.
Now that we know that every key relationship in the universe is based on six numbers (see note 1), that these relationships are crucial to life, and that there would be no life and no universe as we know it if any one of these six numbers was changed in the slightest degree, even the most committed atheists have had to admit that this can be no coincidence.
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TOPICS: Religion; Science
KEYWORDS: andreilinde; atheism; benstein; darwinism; evolution; multiverse; originofthespecies; scientology; sixnumbers; universe
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To: PurpleMountains
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posted on
12/04/2008 5:05:29 AM PST
by
SolidWood
(Sarah Palin - Everything that is Sweetness and Light! WE STAND WITH HER!)
To: PurpleMountains
some advanced creature from outer space may have seeded life on earth Sex, sex, sex. Does everything have to be about sex?
Your father was a cosmic snow plow.
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posted on
12/04/2008 5:07:47 AM PST
by
laotzu
To: PurpleMountains
The storyv I have heard repeated over and over regarding the origin of life on earth has to do with repeated lightning strikes on an Earth covered in nutrient-rich oceans. The shock of the lightning caused amino acids, present in the water, to align in a certain way, forming simple DNA patterns that then replicated and resulted in simple life forms.
Then, in the next scene, Fred Flinstone is sitting on a dinosaur, working in his quarry. That's quite a leap!
To: SolidWood
I loved that film. Stein reduced Dawkins to a stammering blob of jelly.
Academic arrogance is very ugly.
To: laotzu
I’ve always been amused by this particular explanation for the origin of life.
It doesn’t answer the question at all. It just moves it off the earth to some other planet.
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posted on
12/04/2008 5:09:13 AM PST
by
Sherman Logan
(Everyone has a right to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.)
To: PurpleMountains
Stupid movie moment and it dies not reflect the opinion of many scientists. There is a possibility that the amino acids required arrived by asteroid or some other space stuff. To ignore that possibility would be negligent. I think it is just as likely that they came off the boot of some traveler as other ideas - if you want to stick to evo that is.
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posted on
12/04/2008 5:11:33 AM PST
by
mad_as_he$$
(Nemo me impune lacessit.)
To: laotzu
Your father was a cosmic snow plow Your mother used to be snow white, but she drifted.
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posted on
12/04/2008 5:17:05 AM PST
by
laotzu
To: PurpleMountains
The correct answer is “I don’t know, but I don’t need to believe in a creation mythology to cope with the fact that I don’t know”.
To: mad_as_he$$
>>There is a possibility that the amino acids required arrived by asteroid or some other space stuff.
And, pray tell, did those wonderous amino acids come from? While we are at it, what set off the “Big Bang”?
Explanations are easy; finding causes is much more difficult.
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posted on
12/04/2008 5:29:10 AM PST
by
NTHockey
(Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners.)
To: PurpleMountains
Sir Frances Crick turned to a theory of “panspermia” when his work on DNA could not support spontaneous eruption of cellular life through natural processes and evolution
So that means these men of pure science deride the notion of a superior intelligence aka "god” for people on earth, but speculate that some alien race "evolved" without God and then seeded earth to start life?
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posted on
12/04/2008 5:33:49 AM PST
by
silverleaf
(Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
To: PurpleMountains
It’s simpler (and therefore better logic) to say Life, the Universe and Everything ‘just happened’ than to say God ‘just happened’ and created it. There are good reasons to conclude God’s existence, but the ‘clockmaker’ argument isn’t one of them.
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posted on
12/04/2008 5:38:47 AM PST
by
Grut
To: NTHockey
Well amino acids can easily be created in laboratory conditions today. The environment is not all that lab friendly nor is it that different than a young Earth may have been. For example Mars has water, some oxygen and light. Are you ready to say there are no AA there and never will be?
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posted on
12/04/2008 5:49:42 AM PST
by
mad_as_he$$
(Nemo me impune lacessit.)
To: mad_as_he$$
amino acids can easily be created in laboratory conditions Let's give this controlled 'evolution' a name . . . how about 'Intelligent Design'?
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posted on
12/04/2008 6:12:43 AM PST
by
DesertSapper
(God, Family, Country . . . . . . . . . . and dead terrorists!!!)
To: PurpleMountains
After sputtering for a few moments, Dawkins offers the thought that some advanced creature from outer space may have seeded life on earth Funny, that's just what the Scientologists believe.
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posted on
12/04/2008 6:18:27 AM PST
by
weegee
(Sec. of State Clinton. What kind of change is it to keep the Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton Oligarchy?)
To: laotzu
Didn’t you ever see the 1960s film, MARS NEEDS WOMEN?
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posted on
12/04/2008 6:18:57 AM PST
by
weegee
(Sec. of State Clinton. What kind of change is it to keep the Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton Oligarchy?)
To: PurpleMountains
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posted on
12/04/2008 6:23:41 AM PST
by
DManA
To: weegee
Didnt you ever see the 1960s film, MARS NEEDS WOMEN? Not that I recall.
laotzu needs women too.
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posted on
12/04/2008 6:36:19 AM PST
by
laotzu
To: DesertSapper
No it is simply science and if you want to play name games than further discussion is pointless.
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posted on
12/04/2008 6:43:49 AM PST
by
mad_as_he$$
(Nemo me impune lacessit.)
To: mad_as_he$$
You named it "simply science", I like my choice more.
I'm enjoying the 'name game', hope you are too . . . your turn.
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posted on
12/04/2008 7:09:48 AM PST
by
DesertSapper
(God, Family, Country . . . . . . . . . . and dead terrorists!!!)
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