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Life 2.0 (Science plays God)
The Economist ^
| 9/10/06
| The Economist
Posted on 09/10/2006 5:38:02 AM PDT by voletti
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To: js1138
It wasn't. No competent geologist/geophysicist will differ with you.
161
posted on
09/12/2006 12:00:17 PM PDT
by
RadioAstronomer
(Senior member of Darwin Central)
To: RadioAstronomer; js1138
I recall that one time a creationist suggested there was probably enough water in the oceans to do the job. I don't think anyone bothered to respond.
162
posted on
09/12/2006 12:05:33 PM PDT
by
PatrickHenry
(Where are the anachronistic fossils? Where are the moderate creationists?)
To: PatrickHenry
It would work ig all the water in the oceans rose up and covered the land.
Of couse that miracle still managed not to leave any evidence on the surface of the land.
As Coyote says, the most convincing lack of evidence is not in the rocks, but in the soils.
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posted on
09/12/2006 12:09:33 PM PDT
by
js1138
(Well I say there are some things we don't want to know! Important things!")
To: js1138
It would work if all the water in the oceans rose up and covered the land. Yes, and if it didn't immediately run downhill back into the ocean beds.
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posted on
09/12/2006 12:13:46 PM PDT
by
PatrickHenry
(Where are the anachronistic fossils? Where are the moderate creationists?)
To: PatrickHenry
Miracles are miracles. My problem is with people who lie about evidence and who make silly statements about how the natural world works. AIG comes to mind.
165
posted on
09/12/2006 12:15:28 PM PDT
by
js1138
(Well I say there are some things we don't want to know! Important things!")
To: voletti
166
posted on
09/12/2006 12:21:23 PM PDT
by
WardMClark
(Semi-Notorious Political Gadfly)
To: PatrickHenry
I recall that one time a creationist suggested there was probably enough water in the oceans to do the job. I don't think anyone bothered to respond.All it takes is for the tide to keep coming in without ever going out.
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posted on
09/12/2006 12:25:52 PM PDT
by
Gumlegs
168
posted on
09/12/2006 12:31:01 PM PDT
by
dread78645
(Evolution. A doomed theory since 1859.)
To: Gumlegs
All it takes is for the tide to keep coming in without ever going out. There's a science fiction novel about a double-planet system where that routinely happens. Robert Forward's Rocheworld.
169
posted on
09/12/2006 12:38:08 PM PDT
by
PatrickHenry
(Where are the anachronistic fossils? Where are the moderate creationists?)
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posted on
09/12/2006 12:55:29 PM PDT
by
balrog666
(Ignorance is never better than knowledge. - Enrico Fermi)
To: js1138
>The scientific search for evidence of a global flood rapped up around 1830 -- long before Darwin. If it happened it didn't leave evidence.
My non-scientist
thoughts are that if Pangia
was still together
in Noah's time then
it's easier to picture
a flood affecting
the entire world and
the subsequent moves apart
(in Peleg's life time?)
would have confounded
the "record" of the flood with
the breakup record.
To: theFIRMbss
If you are interested in this you should study geology.
Learning how the evidence is gathered and analyzed takes time and effort, but it's worth it.
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posted on
09/12/2006 1:17:38 PM PDT
by
js1138
(Well I say there are some things we don't want to know! Important things!")
To: voletti
Until proven otherwise. I have very few doubts that one day (relatively soon) someone will synthesize something that can be called alive in the lab.
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posted on
09/12/2006 2:28:21 PM PDT
by
farlander
(Strategery - sure beats liberalism!)
To: Jedi Master Pikachu
Did I mention that this fabulous biodroid race is much more flexible when it comes to their environment? Just you wait until the Supernazis under Doktor Totenkopf come back from the dark side of the moon and their lairs in antarctica and the hollow earth.
To: AntiGuv
175
posted on
09/12/2006 6:04:14 PM PDT
by
bitt
("And an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm.")
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Comment #177 Removed by Moderator
To: DaveLoneRanger
A good example of order arising from disorder is a hurricane. You start with a few random updrafts and convective cells off the coast of Africa, next thing you know there is rotation and sustained winds.
Comment #179 Removed by Moderator
To: DaveLoneRanger
Perhaps you will bless us with an example of a living thing that actually resembles a manufactured thing in materials and workmanship. Or vice-versa.
The last time I looked, manufactured things did not assemble themselves or reproduce themselves with variation and negative feedback.
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posted on
09/13/2006 6:30:46 AM PDT
by
js1138
(Well I say there are some things we don't want to know! Important things!")
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