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3 Realities Chance Can’t Explain About Life’s Origins That Intelligent Design Can
The Federalist.com ^ | May 17, 2022 | Granville Sewell

Posted on 05/17/2022 7:38:29 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 05/17/2022 7:38:29 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

If man were meant to fly God would have given him wings.


2 posted on 05/17/2022 7:40:36 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: Kaslin
Yes, it's very easy to explain things which Science is still struggling to fully explicate when you can simply exclaim, "A Wizard did it!"

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AWizardDidIt

Regards,

3 posted on 05/17/2022 7:42:14 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: glorgau

God gave man the capacity to make flying machines to fly in.


4 posted on 05/17/2022 7:42:56 AM PDT by BipolarBob ("Money can't buy happiness but it can buy a huge yacht that sails right next to it." - DavidLRoth)
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To: Kaslin

Also look at the precise clockwork of our entire solar system.

Look at Iapetus. Look at the moon. All of these planets with resources and seemingly purposeful designs to expand us into the universe.

Something engineered this. And we’re the beneficiaries of this gift.


5 posted on 05/17/2022 7:43:22 AM PDT by Celerity
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To: Kaslin
The Babel fish is small, yellow, leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe. It feeds on brainwave energy received not from its own carrier, but from those around it. It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with. It then excretes into the mind of its carrier a telepathic matrix formed by combining the conscious thought frequencies with nerve signals picked up from the speech centres of the brain which has supplied them. The practical upshot of all this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language. The speech patterns you actually hear decode the brainwave matrix which has been fed into your mind by your Babel fish.

Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that something so mind-bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.

The argument goes something like this: 'I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, 'for proof denies faith, and without faith, I am nothing.' 'But, says Man, the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.' 'Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and vanishes in a puff of logic. 'Oh, that was easy,' says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.

Most leading theologians claim that this argument is a load of dingo's kidneys, but that didn't stop Oolon Colluphid from making a small fortune when he used it as the theme of his best-selling book, Well That About Wraps It Up For God.

Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.

6 posted on 05/17/2022 7:45:32 AM PDT by jdege
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Remember studying spontaneous generation in school?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_generation

Rejection of spontaneous generation is no longer controversial among biologists. By the middle of the 19th century, experiments by Louis Pasteur and others were considered to have disproven the traditional theory of spontaneous generation and supported biogenesis.


7 posted on 05/17/2022 7:45:51 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Kaslin
Intelligent Design, the witness in agreement with God's Word (Romans 1:20).
8 posted on 05/17/2022 7:47:17 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: glorgau
If man were meant to fly God would have given him wings.

He did, just didn't give men and women wings of their own.

‘You yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself. Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession. Exodus 19:4-5 NIV

Next . .

9 posted on 05/17/2022 7:47:56 AM PDT by Ahithophel (Communication is an art form susceptible to sudden technical failure)
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To: Kaslin

Life is wonderous and to say it’s millions of years of random chance is beyond my comprehension. I was walking in the park today looking at the variety of plants and I thought to myself, how could random chance give rise to photosynthesis in these relatively simple life forms?

Nope, sorry, can’t buy that. I don’t care how you envision the creator, but something is a prime mover for this. God did it.


10 posted on 05/17/2022 7:49:44 AM PDT by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: Celerity
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The moon has confounded scientists for many years. It does not obey the known rules of astrophysics and there is no theory of its origin that explains the known facts--in fact it should not really be there...

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11 posted on 05/17/2022 7:55:46 AM PDT by lasereye
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To: alexander_busek
3,500 years ago the book of Genesis said God created man from the dust of the earth. This was before it became chic for the Greeks to say that everything is made from the same elements (of course they had just 4 elements, but I'll cut them some slack for living a long time ago). Genesis was also before we had the periodic table of elements, with us now believing mankind to being carbon based. Some "wizard", huh?

It's also fascinating to me that modern archaeology supports the sequence of animals appearing in the Genesis text (plants, fish and birds, land animals, man).

And where do we believe the first human civilization was? Mesopotamia was in the Fertile Crescent in modern day Iraq -- where Genesis says the Garden of Eden was between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

The Bible isn't fiction or behind times. It's taking us thousands of years to catch up to the Bible.

12 posted on 05/17/2022 7:56:23 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: jdege
Hmm. According to Wikipedia:

Babel fish, a fictional species of fish invented by Douglas Adams in 1978; see The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

13 posted on 05/17/2022 7:59:47 AM PDT by lasereye
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To: alexander_busek

Behold your mother. John 19:27


14 posted on 05/17/2022 8:01:09 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: Kaslin

He left out a 4th reason - the anthropic principle. The incredibly fine tuned nature of all the natural and cosmological forces specifically to enable life.


15 posted on 05/17/2022 8:01:58 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: Kaslin

The scientific establishment is slowly beginning to allow scientists who believe in intelligent design............


Now here is a real scientist:

When I was young, I said to God, ‘God, tell me the mystery of the universe.’ But God answered, ‘That knowledge is for me alone.’ So I said, ‘God, tell me the mystery of the peanut.’ Then God said, ‘Well George, that’s more nearly your size.’ And he told me.

George Washington Carver

https://www.azquotes.com/author/2580-George_Washington_Carver/tag/god


16 posted on 05/17/2022 8:03:01 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Kaslin

A Tbsp of healthy soil contains millions of living microorganisms and fungi. Those along with the billions of plants and critter life all working together keeping the planet going as well as it does despite man cannot be the source of some big boom.

If only we could put most of our efforts into discovering this God given creation instead of trying to be creators ourselves.

Next up, genetically altered and tech augmented humans.


17 posted on 05/17/2022 8:04:36 AM PDT by Pollard (Don't ask if there's a conspiracy. If you're not in one, you need to start one. CA Fitts)
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God gave man the capacity to make flying machines to fly in.

Yes by copying his design of wing shape.

18 posted on 05/17/2022 8:05:56 AM PDT by Pollard (Don't ask if there's a conspiracy. If you're not in one, you need to start one. CA Fitts)
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To: Kaslin

Trying to conceive of void or nothingness gives me a headache.


19 posted on 05/17/2022 8:06:27 AM PDT by Leep (Don't say God.)
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20 posted on 05/17/2022 8:07:08 AM PDT by Kaslin
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