I find it funny that atheist tend to not look at the way things were at one time. 1. Good, but reachable by nontheistic ethical systems (i.e., help the poor, forgive others). So it was good for the poor villagers of Chad to take in the poor starving refugees from Darfur? ALL those poor folk are now starving. It would have been better for the people of Chad to kick out the unfortunate folk fr
That said, it should be instantly obvious why God violates parsimony, but I'll spell it out anyway: an omnipotent, omniscient, intelligent force which exists simultaneously within and outside the universe, whose existence cannot be accounted for by a single piece of evidence anywhere in any science, is obviously a new term, and an unnecessary one, because cosmology, physics, chemistry, and biology together can explai
We see bacteria evolving new traits by mutation constantly, both in the lab and in nature. All that hoo-ha a few weeks ago about about Andrew Speaker was the result of Mycobacterium tuberculosis mutating over successive generations into a form which is resistant to antibiotics. Drug resistant staph evolved the exact same way. Creation of new traits by mutation isn't just an observed fact, it's the root cause of a growing medical crisis. <
Frankly, I think the theists who denounce science as the enemy of religion are right. It is. Science has muscled religion out of its primary turf, which was to explain the natural world. Darwin did the most damage, because without a naturalistic explanation of the origin of life, even those who were extremely skeptical of traditional religion really had no choice but to accept at least an disinterested Deistic entity. </d
Well, read my last post about a page ago: These are good examples of selecting traits from an existing gene pool. The are not, however, good examples of creating new traits. Neither are they good examples of single cell animals becoming humans over a period of millions of years. We see bacteria evolving new traits by mutation constantly, both in the lab and in nature. All that hoo-ha a few weeks ago about about Andrew Speaker was the result of Mycoba
