If man were meant to fly God would have given him wings.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Trying to conceive of void or nothingness gives me a headache.
He brings up points that I’ve thought about for a long time, but I like my questioning better.
1. The Origin of life.
Let’s say we accept that life burst into being from a primeval soup. That is, the temperature, the atmospheric pressure, the chemical mixture, etc. was just right so that a living creature was formed from it, a single-cell, very basic creature.
Here’s my question: How did these creatures make the leap from being a one-time occurrence that lives briefly and then dies out to being able to reproduce themselves and maintain the population after the primeval soup is different?
2. The Origin of Advanced Life Forms.
Suppose there are creatures that can reproduce copies of themselves. How did these creatures make the leap such that reproduction requires a sexual mating? And the creatures can’t go back to not needing a mate for reproduction? And why are there no creatures that require 3 (or more) different individuals to produce one new creature with the variations that would occur from requiring the multiple individuals?
The first mistake here is the assumption that hairless monkeys, only a few million years from screeching through the treetops and flinging shit at each other have the capacity to comprehend the nature, intentionality, and purpose of the universe. The propensity for humankind to anthropomorphize a creator and then reason backwards is the pinnacle of hubris. If people simply treated each other better we could dispense with all these campfire stories (which they are) and settle on a simpler working model that doesn’t just make people smug because they think they know something you don’t, and foment centuries of bloody war, instead of just accepting our predicament and making the best of it.
We can create incredibly complex machines from the material world, yet as far as I know, we do not seem to be able to create even the most basic organic life form. Yet, we are to believe that original life was created spontaneously and randomly. And it was able to reproduce itself. Such a premise defies logic, and science as we know it.
On the other hand, if the bible is any guide, it would seem that humans have devolved, as outside of some modern improvements in understanding and curing human ailments, humans live relative short lives compared to the length of lifetimes given early in Genesis. Maybe it is also true for other living species. The idea poses an interrupting question to both intelligent design and evolution. Is it all another reason for the Messiah’s intervention?
the fact that a giraffe can eat from the ground and raise up again without having his head filled with blood, illustrates unique design to me...
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