[fishtank]

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[loveliberty2]

Thank you!!

This link will be provided to my grandchildren, who are now exposed to academia's challenges of all things spiritual and eternal.

Sometimes, a single statement, such as, "If our minds were not designed, why would we trust them?" is the antidote for the "foolishness" of much of what passes for "education" today.

[Little Pig]

Reason and rationality are survival characteristics. If we couldn’t rely on them, we’d be unable to do things like store food for the winter, navigate successfully, or take advantage of physics or natural phenomena. This doesn’t even apply solely to humans. All animals, consciously or not, rely on at least rationality for survival, and several of the more “intelligent” animals appear to be capable of applying at least basic reasoning as well.

[Moonman62]

Criticizing evolution is criticizing God’s work.

[MaxFlint]

If our minds evolved, false beliefs would tend to predominate because, as Christian philosopher Angus Menuge points out, “for any given topic, it can be shown that there are vastly more systems of false beliefs than systems of true beliefs that produce the same behavior.”

This is not inconsistent with my observations of man.

[dmz]

If our minds were not designed, why would we trust them?

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The above is a cute aphorism, but is not in any way part of the construction of an argument that proves creationism, nor does it disprove evolution.

It is a statement of faith (not that there’s anything wrong with that).

[tacticalogic]

Design vs. evolution is a fallacy of false dichotomy.

The ability to evolve may well be part of the design.

[taxcontrol]

The human genome is estimated to consist over over three billion DNA base pairs. Lets look at how large of a number that represents. If we assume that the base pairs are acutally pairs (not true, the number is acutally larger) that number can be expressed as

2 raised to the power of 3,000,000,000000

Now consider the following:
2^8 = 256
2^10 = 1024
2^64 = 18446744073709551616

The number of atom in the known universe is estimated at 4.0e^81 or 2 ^ 271

Now think about that. Compare the size of every known atom 2 ^ 271 vs 2 ^ 3,000,000,000,000 Now think of this as a brute force attack against that number. How does random trial and error get to your DNA which is only ONE of the 2 ^ 3,000,000,000,000

The understanding of large numbers is what leads many scientists and mathematician to believe in God.

[MUDDOG]

why would we trust them?

You can't, as David Hume argued 250 years ago.

[bert]

Drivel to promote a bigger offering

[The Cuban]

So how do you know God didn’t design things using evolution that evolution is not God’s pen a tool He uses??

[avenir]

“If all our acts are conditioned, then so are our theories. Yet your Behaviorist claims his is objectively true.”—Auden

[DungeonMaster]

Evolution = idolatry.

[Popman]

Bmk

[discostu]

Because why wouldn’t we? And have you noticed how lucrative the psychological and self help industries are? Maybe we really don’t.

[I want the USA back]

The Theory of evolution is not a sufficient explanation for the origin of life, or of the human species.

[mjp]

On the other hand, if atheism were correct, humans would be the byproducts of blind forces which had no intention to produce rational creatures.

1) something from nothing
2) symmetry, order, and beauty from disorder
3) consciousness, free will, reason, wisdom from matter
4) life from inanimate chemicals
5) anthropic coincidences from accidents
6) man from pond scum
7) human knowledge and values from a universe without absolutes

these beliefs are too much of a leap of faith for me

[Big Red Badger]

Makes my head hurt,