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To: VadeRetro
If you won't make inferences from a clear preponderance of evidence, there's no point pretending that you're arguing about science at all.

Interesting choice of words. A clear preponderance of evidence clearly infers that for things to get more functional and intricate, they were devised to be just that.

1,372 posted on 03/05/2003 11:52:42 PM PST by unspun ("Inalienable right to own hash, PCP, ricin, C4, smallpox & plutonium." - TOTALIBERTARIAN)
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To: unspun
A clear preponderance of evidence clearly infers that for things to get more functional and intricate, they were devised to be just that.

Up in post 1364, answering the "information won't increase by itself" mantra, I point out that you don't need any miraculous intervention after the time the cosmic microwave background was emitted to get from that homogeneous-gas universe to the one we have now. The same would be true for any other claimed need for miracles.

Now, I'm not a big fan of the Anthropic Principle arguments, either, but if you're ever able to show that we do need Tinkerbell to come by with the magic wand, it will be at some point very far back near the beginning. When creationists kick and scream against the very clear evidence that on one particular planet billions of years after the Big Bang modern life forms evolved from a few simple ancient life forms, they're doing something that they don't have to do and which forces them to abandon fact and logic. Creationism as practiced by creationists--as opposed to, say, theistic evolutionists--is a foolish and dishonest enterprise which discredits all who embrace it.

1,377 posted on 03/06/2003 6:12:20 AM PST by VadeRetro
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