Math Atheism

Posted by Adam

May 20

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http://usualrhetoric.blogspot.com tavarish

This is exactly how some young earth creationists view the theory of evolution.

Good stuff.
allenjs

Awesome! Little Calvin is wise.
Marc

Yep, we do. After all, to believe evolution occurred then one must believe in miracles. Miracles, by definition, are events which run contrary to scientific law. For evolution to have occurred then the following, inter alia, miraculous events had to have transpired:

(i) a non-material code arose from a purely material environment
(ii) highly unstable polymers not only arose but were sustained in a highly unfriendly, harsh environment, and,
the greatest miracle of all
(iii) that an exclusive left-handed amino acid world (what life requires) would form despite the universal biochemical law (demonstrated theoretically and empirically!) that states undirected chemistry can only result in a racemic mixture (i.e. 50% Left and 50% Right)

Tavarish, whenit comes to science, it’s the evolutionist who believes in the unscientific and religious, not the creationist.
http://usualrhetoric.blogspot.com tavarish

Marc, you are one seriously misinformed dude. Let's correct that bumbling mess of an argument you just posted and try to make sense of it.

Your premises (i, ii, and iii) are talking about abiogenesis, the theory in which life came from non-living material. This is NOT evolution. The theory of evolution is how life changed on this planet, stemming from one common ancestor. It has absolutely no say in how the first life form emerged, it is simply an explanation of how the variety of lifeforms we see today came to be.

Abiogenesis has a few plausible elements, but hasn't been demonstrated yet in a repeatable environment. It is divorced from the theory of evolution, as there are other viable theories that can also explain how life arose, for example directed panspermia. However, none of these are worth anything without evidence to support it. Science doesn't deal with miracles or religious claims, please understand this and stop repeating rhetoric you heard Ken Ham or Kent Hovind say in a lecture.

Please visit a museum or open up a science book, or talk to an evolutionary biologist. You'll get much more information than simply talking to me about it. In such a critical society,we can't simply leave these explanations to “Goddidit, it says so in the Bible”. That would be intellectual stagnation and against the mountains of evidence we have for the theory of evolution – the driving force of most modern natural science.