Franktalk wrote:The layers and layers of assumptions in your remarks are just amazing.
Funny that. I see you as the one with layers and layers of "assumptions."
You see, God is a funny guy and wishes everyone a good time. He treats us like a child. He even gives us junk DNA for scientist to play with. Isn't God great.
So your defense is a deceptive god that arranged the evidence to look as if evolution happened. He also fabricated false radioisotope data to make it look as if it happened over billions of years. He fabricated non radioactive isotope fraction data that agrees with the former. He fabricated geologic data that shows the days were shorter in the past due to a receding moon. It sure seems as if this god really REALLY wants us to think the earth is very old. Given the existence of your god, who am I to go against his wishes? He evidently wants me to believe the earth is old and life evolved so that is what I'll do. Otherwise this god might become angry and punish me with a credulous mind.
When I make something I use parts from various places. I assemble them into my new device.
Do you waste time and energy including parts that serve no purpose?
When done I know I built the new device. I don't analyze the new device and say evolution did it because it contains parts from other things.
This simplistic picture misses the bulk of the data that demonstrates evolution. That being the change in organisms over the history of the earth. You see at a certain point in geologic history cats and dogs did not exist but an animal did that has common characteristics of both. Also when an evolutionary change comes along it ends up in all subsequent life forms. Kind of like the Russian dolls that fit into each other. Once a tube evolved we all inherited it. One end became the mouth and the other can't be mentioned here in the celestial forum. Give this video a watch.
10th foundational falsehood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MXTBGc ... 3015CFDD28Your science colored glasses do not allow you to think in any other way
I'll agree with this. But what is it to think in a scientific way? It is a way of thinking that makes no assumptions, that clears the slate clean and asks where the data leads us? There really isn't any better way to think that I am aware of.
...than what you were taught.
Yes, how awful for mankind to accumulate knowledge and pass it on from one generation to the next. If you are living in a cave then you have a right to make this criticism otherwise it is hypocritical for you to do so.
I am sorry but you are a parrot. You can be replaced with a book.
Do you accept the fact that the earth is not flat and orbits the sun? If so, then there are those who make the same observation about you. You can find them here:
http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/cms/The world is a wonderful place if you let it amaze you.
You mean like the sunset thing? I don't find that understanding Rayleigh scattering of light diminishes my enjoyment of a good sunset in the least.
Just ponder the many ways this place could have been made.
Are we to remain ponderers forever and never arrive at the answer? There is nothing wrong with this as a starting point. But using the data we can eliminate some of those ways as the evidence provides constraints on the possible answers.
Don't fixate on one thing.
I didn't. Only as all the evidence coming together painted the same exact picture and corroborated each other in a consistent picture of what happened. No reason exists for that to be the case if there was a random creative entity involved.
Enjoy an open mind and let in all kinds of possibilities. Life is way more fun when you are not pinned down to one paradigm.
Try a little LSD? Been there done that, Ooops LDS.
I enjoy science but I don't let it take me over. I enjoy discussing God but I don't let it take me over. I enjoy my freedom. Try it sometime.
Yeah, no thanks. The freedom to think the earth is flat is enjoyed by some but it doesn't do anything for me. Besides, its an affront to the brave individuals of the past who gave countless hours of sacrifice, some of whom lost their lives as a result. I think the proper thing to do is to hold on tenaciously to every bit of progress our species is capable of.
Kolob’s set time is “one thousand years according to the time appointed unto that whereon thou standest” (Abraham 3:4). I take this as a round number. - Gee
