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Title: 81 yr old atheist reverses position
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URL Source: http://www.harunyahya.com/articles/70scientific_world.html
Published: Dec 12, 2007
Author: n
Post Date: 2007-12-12 13:15:28 by gengis gandhi
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Comments: 52

The Scientific World Is Turning to God

HARUN YAHYA

"As people have certainly been influenced by me, I want to try and correct the enormous damage I may have done." (Anthony Flew)

The newspapers these days are echoing with these regret-filled words by Anthony Flew, in his time a well-known atheist philosopher. The 81-year-old British professor of philosophy Flew chose to become an atheist at the age of 15, and first made a name for himself in the academic field with a paper published in 1950. In the 54 years that followed, he defended atheism as a teacher at the universities of Oxford, Aberdeen, Keele and Reading, at many American and Canadian universities he visited, in debates, books, lecture halls and articles. In recent days, however, Flew has announced that he has abandoned this error and accepts that the universe was created.

The decisive factor in this radical change of view is the clear and definitive evidence revealed by science on the subject of creation. Flew realised, in the face of the information-based complexity of life, that the true origin of life is intelligent design and that the atheism he had espoused for 66 years was a discredited philosophy.

Flew announced the scientific reasons underlying this change in belief in these terms:

"Biologists' investigation of DNA has shown, by the almost unbelievable complexity of the arrangements which are needed to produce [life], that intelligence must have been involved." (1)

"It has become inordinately difficult even to begin to think about constructing a naturalistic theory of the evolution of that first reproducing organism." (2)

"I have been persuaded that it is simply out of the question that the first living matter evolved out of dead matter and then developed into an extraordinarily complicated creature." (3)

The DNA research which Flew cites as a fundamental reason for his change of opinion has indeed revealed striking facts about creation. The helix shape of the DNA molecule, its possession of the genetic code, the nucleotide strings that refute blind chance, the storage of encyclopaedic quantities of information and many other striking findings have revealed that the structure and functions of this molecule were arranged for life with a special design. Comments by scientists concerned with DNA research bear witness to this fact.

Francis Crick, for instance, one of the scientists who revealed the helix shape of DNA admitted in the face of the findings regarding DNA that the origin of life indicated a miracle:

An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going. (4)

Based on his calculations, Led Adleman of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles has stated that one gram of DNA can store as much information as a trillion compact discs. (5) Gene Myers, a scientist employed on the Human Genome Project, has said the following in the face of the miraculous arrangements he witnessed:

"What really astounds me is the architecture of life… The system is extremely complex. It's like it was designed… There's a huge intelligence there." (6)

The most striking fact about DNA is that the existence of the coded genetic information can definitely not be explained in terms of matter and energy or natural laws. Dr. Werner Gitt, a professor at the German Federal Institute of Physics and Technology, has said this on the subject:

A code system is always the result of a mental process… It should be emphasized that matter as such is unable to generate any code. All experiences indicate that a thinking being voluntarily exercising his own free will, cognition, and creativity, is required… There is no known natural law through which matter can give rise to information, neither is any physical process or material phenomenon known that can do this. (7)

Creationist scientists and philosophers played a major role in Flew's acceptance of intelligent design, backed up by all these findings. In recent times Flew participated in debates with scientists and philosophers who were proponents of creation, and exchanged ideas with them. The final turning point in that process was a discussion organised by the Institute for Metascientific Research in Texas in May, 2003. Flew participated together with author Roy Abraham Varghese, Israeli physicist and molecular biologist Gerald Schroeder, and Roman Catholic philosopher John Haldane. Flew was impressed by the weight of the scientific evidence in favour of creation and by the convincing nature of his opponents' arguments, and abandoned atheism as an idea in the period following that discussion. In a letter he wrote for the August-September, 2003, edition of the British magazine Philosophy Now, he recommended Schroeder's book "The Hidden Face of God: Science Reveals the Ultimate Truth" and Varghese's book "The Wonderful World."(8) During an interview with the professor of philosophy and theology Gary R. Habermas, who also played a major role in his change of mind (9), and also on the video "Has Science Discovered God?," he openly stated that he believed in intelligent design.

The "Intelligence Pervading the Universe" and the Collapse of Atheism

In the face of all the scientific developments outlined above, the acceptance of intelligent design by Antony Flew, famous for defending atheism for many years, reflects a final scene in the process of collapse being undergone by atheism. Modern science has revealed the existence of an "intelligence pervading the universe," thus leaving atheism out of the equation.

In his book "The Hidden Face of God," Gerald Schroeder, one of the creationist scientists who influenced Flew, writes:

"A single consciousness, a universal wisdom, pervades the universe. The discoveries of science, those that search the quantum nature of subatomic matter, have moved us to the brink of a startling realization: all existence is the expression of this wisdom. In the laboratories we experience it as information that first physically articulated as energy and then condensed into the form of matter. Every particle, every being, from atom to human, appears to represent a level of information, of wisdom." (10)

Scientific research into both the functioning of the cell and the subatomic particles of matter has revealed this fact in an indisputable manner: Life and the universe were brought into being from nothing by the will of an entity possessed of a superior mind and wisdom. There is no doubt that the possessor of that knowledge and mind that pervade the universe at all levels is Almighty Allah. Allah reveals this truth in the Qur'an:

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#1. To: gengis gandhi (#0)

Scientific research into both the functioning of the cell and the subatomic particles of matter has revealed this fact in an indisputable manner: Life and the universe were brought into being from nothing by the will of an entity possessed of a superior mind and wisdom. There is no doubt that the possessor of that knowledge and mind that pervade the universe at all levels is Almighty Allah. Allah reveals this truth in the Qur'an:

Train gets going... builds up a huge head of steam.... starts racing along at 200 miles an hour.... and then goes soaring off the tracks and flying into space at the first curve. Wheee!

Do I think there is a "great intelligence" behind the creation of this universe? Yes. Do I believe this reality is a subset of a greater reality? Yes. Am I willing to subscribe to any particular dogma and/or say any one particular religion has "the truth" as compared to all the rest? Hell no!

Gold and silver are REAL money, paper is but a promise.

Elliott Jackalope  posted on  2007-12-12   13:20:56 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Elliott Jackalope (#1)

yeah, this clown has to go and hack for islam.

archaic.

creationism seems far more philisophically likely than random evolution.

to me, the ultimate fundamentalists are the atheists.

as dogmatic as any religion.

Gypsy woman said to me, one thing you must bear in your mind:
You are young and you are free, but damned if youre deceased in your own lifetime.

The Core, Eric Clapton

gengis gandhi  posted on  2007-12-12   13:25:09 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: gengis gandhi (#0)

The best book I have read up to now about evolution...

In the first few chapters the author gives a concise overview over the history of natural science and the involvement of the church, including it's misconceptions. He then summarizes the development of the idea of evolution, which culminates in Darwin's theory of mutation and selection. All the arguments for evolution are made, to a point that I was wondering why I bought the book. Arguments that are made in biology textbooks for decades are repeated so that this book seems not to fulfill it's promise 'to make a distinctive and valuable contribution' and that the author would 'expose fundamental flaws in the overall theory of evolution'. But in the second half of the book this masterpiece of an analytical mind shows that it is well worth it's price. It is awesome to read how, one by one, the 'convincing arguments' for evolution are analyzed and shown to be flawed. Especially the recent new findings in cell biology and genetics shows the impossibility of complex life to have evolved from 'simple' cells. The author also dips briefly into the issue of prebiotic evolution, debunking the common perception that, given enough time, self-replicating molecules could have risen spontaneously. The author shows that evolution of living matter from non-living matter could not have occured. I just wish the author had dealt in more detail about Popper and science philosophy in general. There are many books where you cannot wait to finish it early, so that you might know the outcome. This book is different. The closer I came to the last chapter, the slower I read. I didn't want to finish this book - I wanted to continue to read more about the facts behind the theory of evolution. Great piece, with deep insight - a lot of biological and chemistry facts - written in easy to understand English for the scientific layperson, who is interested in evolution.

My support for Ron Paul 2008 is as of this moment officially on hold until RP clarifies the "Kucinich" issue...


What North American Union? ~~~~~ Have you seen THIS yet? Pass it around...

FOH  posted on  2007-12-12   13:31:22 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Elliott Jackalope (#1)

Do I think there is a "great intelligence" behind the creation of this universe? Yes. Do I believe this reality is a subset of a greater reality? Yes. Am I willing to subscribe to any particular dogma and/or say any one particular religion has "the truth" as compared to all the rest? Hell no!

Deserves repeating, since that's what I woulda said. :)

I'm not a biologist, but I would have thought that science would have figured this one out a long time ago. I mean, two cells meet in a womb, join, and then a process is begun, which had to have been programmed by some form of intelligence, and it ends as a human being.

It matters not what we choose to call the intelligence behind all of this. Heck if the intelligence is intelligent at all, it already knows that opinions will differ, and I don't think it could, in good conscience, penalize someone for believing one way while rewarding another for believing a different way, or for not believing at all. If it did, it is not a very loving intelligence, and not one I would care to know.

Change for Ron Paul

Critter  posted on  2007-12-12   13:35:11 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: (#0)

Origin of Life Made Easy

Alan Chapman  posted on  2007-12-12   13:46:24 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: gengis gandhi (#2)

creationism seems far more philisophically likely than random evolution

Evolution isn't a random process. Anyone who has studied the subject at all understands this.

People who use words such as "accidental," "chance," and "random," when talking about life in the context of evolution have studied little or nothing about the subject. They've read or heard some one-liners and they think that means they're informed on the issue. to me, the ultimate fundamentalists are the atheists.

Atheism is a default position. Everyone is born an atheist and then they are indoctrinated by others who were, themselves, indoctrinated by others.

Alan Chapman  posted on  2007-12-12   14:13:44 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: Critter (#4)

...two cells meet in a womb, join, and then a process is begun, which had to have been programmed by some form of intelligence, and it ends as a human being.

Some organisms reproduce by asexual means.

Alan Chapman  posted on  2007-12-12   14:17:05 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: Alan Chapman (#6)

if not a random process, what is the underlying pattern or motive force to initiate the process?

what then created its order of development?

yawn.

evolution is merely another rabbit hole for those with severe body/ego identification to become fixated upon.

earth is merely one stop along a very very long chain of consciousness development....to become bogged down misses the point.

Gypsy woman said to me, one thing you must bear in your mind:
You are young and you are free, but damned if youre deceased in your own lifetime.

The Core, Eric Clapton

gengis gandhi  posted on  2007-12-12   14:20:40 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: FOH (#3)

My support for Ron Paul 2008 is as of this moment officially on hold until RP clarifies the "Kucinich" issue...

How, or why, should Dr.Paul address Dennis the Menace's position on guns, or anything else?

Dr.Paul's position on the 2nd Amendment is clearly what the founders intended, and has been for decades.

Let Kucinich clarify his own anti-Constitutional ideas...

Join the Ron Paul Revolution

Lod  posted on  2007-12-12   14:24:34 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: Alan Chapman (#6)

They've read or heard some one-liners and they think that means they're informed on the issue.

Often times, not even that much research is done.

The Pope has the best comment on the topic. Believe whichever one you want. Both allow for the other to take place.

Creationists have accepted that there is evolution post-creation.
With Pure Evolution, science cannot show what sparked the Big Bang, leaving a hole for Divine Intervention.

Until the very beginnings are known, it is faith in whatever one holds to be true that carries the day, whether it is a dogmatic religion or dogmatic science.

The only thing that the hurling of insults can do is make the adherents to one particular theory or the other look like petulant children screaming "I'm right, you're wrong, because I say so!"

Creationists cannot - and I repeat - CANNOT prove there is a Divine Being.
Likewise, Science cannot explain what sparked the Big Bang.

So all we are left with is a bunch of children running around acting like jackasses trying to force their particular belief system onto everyone else.

America is not at war. The military is at war. America is at the mall and the Congress is out to lunch.

mirage  posted on  2007-12-12   14:25:45 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: Indrid Cold (#0)

(((((Ping)))))

Thought you might find this of interest.

"When I die I want to go peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather - not screaming in terror like his passengers." - Unk.

Original_Intent  posted on  2007-12-12   14:37:19 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: gengis gandhi (#8)

The reasoning process of the ignorant goes like this: I don't understand. Therefore, magic.

Intelligent design is nothing but facile conjecture.

Alan Chapman  posted on  2007-12-12   14:39:57 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: Alan Chapman (#12) (Edited)

actually, what science likes to call magic is only that which has not been explained.

science is a belief system that exists to perpetuate itself, accepting evidence that confirms, rejecting that which contradicts. all science is based on discovering new correlations....yet, insanely, it defends the status quo in the face of its past history of changing 'truths'...

when science cannot fit into existing theories evidence that would nullify those theories, it ignores them.

quantum theory has pretty well turned alot of 'axioms' on their heads. Indeed, merely observing events has an outcome upon them. This was 'magic' only a few decades ago.

have a nice time in the recycling rings.

Gypsy woman said to me, one thing you must bear in your mind:
You are young and you are free, but damned if youre deceased in your own lifetime.

The Core, Eric Clapton

gengis gandhi  posted on  2007-12-12   14:46:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: lodwick (#9)

Ron Paul needs to make it clear that he WILL NOT under ANY CIRCUMSTANCES form a coalition with a Communist or any strain thereof...people in his own circle are promoting the idea and it's being floated all over the place.

Ron and only Ron can stop that MADNESS.

My support for Ron Paul 2008 is as of this moment officially on hold until RP clarifies the "Kucinich" issue...


What North American Union? ~~~~~ Have you seen THIS yet? Pass it around...

FOH  posted on  2007-12-12   14:53:15 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#15. To: mirage (#10)

Bologna.

The 'science' of "Evolution" as posited, respun, re-posited and spun again is hogwash...

My support for Ron Paul 2008 is as of this moment officially on hold until RP clarifies the "Kucinich" issue...


What North American Union? ~~~~~ Have you seen THIS yet? Pass it around...

FOH  posted on  2007-12-12   14:54:45 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#16. To: FOH (#14)

Just listen to Dr.Paul: I don't know how many times, and in how many ways, he's said that he is running for the Republican nomination for President. Period. End of story.

Please disregard all the other fantasies and dreams that others may be running out there - that's all that they are. Goofiness.

Join the Ron Paul Revolution

Lod  posted on  2007-12-12   14:59:05 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#17. To: FOH (#15)

The 'science' of "Evolution" as posited, respun, re-posited and spun again is hogwash...

As I said, "What we are left with is a bunch of petulant children...."

People just keep proving me correct in that.

America is not at war. The military is at war. America is at the mall and the Congress is out to lunch.

mirage  posted on  2007-12-12   15:08:13 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#18. To: mirage (#17)

With the advent of the high powered microscope, the "Theory of Evolution" was officially dead...save for God-hating 'progressives' and others along similar veins.

My support for Ron Paul 2008 is as of this moment officially on hold until RP clarifies the "Kucinich" issue...


What North American Union? ~~~~~ Have you seen THIS yet? Pass it around...

FOH  posted on  2007-12-12   15:11:32 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#19. To: lodwick (#16)

Actually, Ron has NOT completely eliminated the possibility...

Nor should he. Here's an interesting article written by a Libertarian I know:

Ron Paul’s Third Party Weapon

My support for Ron Paul 2008 is as of this moment officially on hold until RP clarifies the "Kucinich" issue...


What North American Union? ~~~~~ Have you seen THIS yet? Pass it around...

FOH  posted on  2007-12-12   15:20:59 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#20. To: Alan Chapman, gengis gandhi, Indrid Cold, christine, FOH, innieway, TwentyTwelve, all (#6)

Evolution isn't a random process. Anyone who has studied the subject at all understands this.

People who use words such as "accidental," "chance," and "random," when talking about life in the context of evolution have studied little or nothing about the subject. They've read or heard some one-liners and they think that means they're informed on the issue. to me, the ultimate fundamentalists are the atheists.

Atheism is a default position. Everyone is born an atheist and then they are indoctrinated by others who were, themselves, indoctrinated by others.

I do so wish atheists were not addicted to logical fallacies and imputing postions to others which they do not hold, are unprovable, and assumed as factual by fiat.

First the Darwinist/Evolutionist/Atheist position, which is accepted on "faith in Almighty Darwin" and his omniscience, for the origin of life is one which is assumed by fiat and IS based upon an assumption that life originated by the chance combination of inanimate materials into a primordial animate form. What I call the "Shit Happens" Theory for the origin of life.

The theory of course revolves around that fact, and the scientific experiment which purported to prove it has been proven incorrect. Putting the "Shit Happens" Theorists into an uproar was the discovery by Historical Geologists that one of the elements of the Materialist Creation Theory (i.e., "Shit Happens") is false. That is that in the time frame positied the earth did not have an abundant Methane-Amonia Atmosphere, but that it was apparently dominated by Sulfur compounds, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Monoxide, Hydrogen, Nitrogen, and other trace gases.

Further, as pointed out in the article indirectly, from this highly improbable beginning greater complexity evolves in direct contradiction to the Second Law of Thermodynamics. This is not a trivial point. The Second Law of Thermodynamics, for those not familiar with it, states that the physical universe tends toward a zero energy state of complete chaos, no life, and no physical organization - this is referred to as "entropy". It is an accepted, and experimentally validated, theory of how the Physical Universe operates. So, the problem confronted, and always avoided, by the Darwinists/Evolutionists/Atheists is that the biological world demonstrates the exact opposite i.e., increasing complexity, higher levels of organization and function, and higher levels of operational capability. So, the Darwinist "Shit Happens" Theory and the Second Law of Thermodynamics are in conflict.

Axiom: When two datums are mutually exclusive then the first thing one can know is that one or both are false.

So, in order to explain the observed phenomena an element of causality must be introduced and it is one which perforce adds energy to the System and coordinates and brings about higher levels of function and complexity. That is the core operating datum for the Creation Theorists i.e., that causal element which brings about a greater order and more complex function. Not as misrepresented by the Darwinists that it is all "God". Creation theory taken objectively simply implies the existence of that causal element. What one names it and associated Religious Dogma in not relevant to the basic position and to assert such is false and is frequently intentionally false.

As for Atheism being a default position that is again a logical fallacy and is an unsupported assumption which is self-serving for the atheist position. The most that could be supported is that Religion, in its formal sense i.e., Worship and Philosophy, are learned but unbelief as a doctrine is equally a learned position, philosophy, and DOGMA. It is possible that one could construct an argument that a newborn infant holds neither position, but that is not a proposition I care to take on at the moment.

"When I die I want to go peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather - not screaming in terror like his passengers." - Unk.

Original_Intent  posted on  2007-12-12   15:25:10 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#21. To: lodwick, FOH (#16)

Just listen to Dr.Paul: I don't know how many times, and in how many ways, he's said that he is running for the Republican nomination for President. Period. End of story.

Please disregard all the other fantasies and dreams that others may be running out there - that's all that they are. Goofiness.

It's not just "goofiness". I wish it was. It is another PsyOp attack to divorce Ron Paul from the Republican base by planting the ideas that Ron Paul could and should run for the Losertarian Nomination. This is being implanted to erode his increasing support among the tradition Republican constituency.

"When I die I want to go peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather - not screaming in terror like his passengers." - Unk.

Original_Intent  posted on  2007-12-12   15:33:06 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#22. To: Original_Intent (#20)

Interesting.

both atheists and creationists believe that some unseen force initiated life.

and both think that man came from mud or slime, in essence.

I have found more evidence to support that man came from the stars, as a hybrid or genetic experiment, than anything else.

much like we are now developing life forms to serve our interests

seems reasonable.

Gypsy woman said to me, one thing you must bear in your mind:
You are young and you are free, but damned if youre deceased in your own lifetime.

The Core, Eric Clapton

gengis gandhi  posted on  2007-12-12   15:33:07 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#23. To: Original_Intent (#20)

Did you author this?

My support for Ron Paul 2008 is as of this moment officially on hold until RP clarifies the "Kucinich" issue...


What North American Union? ~~~~~ Have you seen THIS yet? Pass it around...

FOH  posted on  2007-12-12   15:33:57 ET  (2 images) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#24. To: Original_Intent (#21)

It's not just "goofiness". I wish it was. It is another PsyOp attack to divorce Ron Paul from the Republican base by planting the ideas that Ron Paul could and should run for the Losertarian Nomination. This is being implanted to erode his increasing support among the tradition Republican constituency.

I would vote for Ron Paul on a Libertarian ticket, however, I would prefer that if he didn't achieve the GOP nomination that he run on the Constitution Party ticket...

My support for Ron Paul 2008 is as of this moment officially on hold until RP clarifies the "Kucinich" issue...


What North American Union? ~~~~~ Have you seen THIS yet? Pass it around...

FOH  posted on  2007-12-12   15:37:15 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#25. To: gengis gandhi (#22)

I have to run but briefly - you have to take it back even further on the chain of causality: "Who shaved the Barber?"

Where the materialists go really nuts is when you begin hitting them with the cosmologic question: Where did those elements that combined by chance come from?

As for ET intervention - it makes sense only if you accept that life as we know it is a recent event. If one posits its creation at some time much further back than Planet Earth - the same set of problems in explaining its origin still apply.

"When I die I want to go peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather - not screaming in terror like his passengers." - Unk.

Original_Intent  posted on  2007-12-12   15:39:09 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#26. To: FOH (#23)

Did you author this?

Yes. Were it not my own I would credit the author.

"When I die I want to go peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather - not screaming in terror like his passengers." - Unk.

Original_Intent  posted on  2007-12-12   15:40:35 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#27. To: Original_Intent (#26)

You write so extremely well...

My support for Ron Paul 2008 is as of this moment officially on hold until RP clarifies the "Kucinich" issue...


What North American Union? ~~~~~ Have you seen THIS yet? Pass it around...

FOH  posted on  2007-12-12   16:16:56 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#28. To: FOH (#18)

With the advent of the high powered microscope, the "Theory of Evolution" was officially dead...save for God-hating 'progressives' and others along similar veins.

Again, with the insults. Trying to prove me correct here?

Again, the problem is - nobody and I mean NOBODY can actually PROVE that there is either a God or what caused the Big Bang in the first place.

Again, any way you want to look at it, you are taking the "beginning" on Faith and on Faith alone.

America is not at war. The military is at war. America is at the mall and the Congress is out to lunch.

mirage  posted on  2007-12-12   16:37:21 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#29. To: mirage (#28)

I can, with modern technology, 100% rule out every single "Evolution Theory" or adaptation of such for certain...

My support for Ron Paul 2008 is as of this moment officially on hold until RP clarifies the "Kucinich" issue...


What North American Union? ~~~~~ Have you seen THIS yet? Pass it around...

FOH  posted on  2007-12-12   16:53:57 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#30. To: FOH (#29)

I can, with modern technology, 100% rule out every single "Evolution Theory" or adaptation of such for certain...

Wrong. There have been observed 'speciation' events in recent modern history. You cannot rule out 100% of evolution. The gene that protects Africans but not Asians from Sickle Cell Anemia cannot be explained any other way.

Even the most ardent creationist is forced to agree that Natural Selection is a rule of nature. Successful organisms reproduce and pass on those traits that help them survive. Unsuccessful organisms fail to reproduce and thus do not pass on those traits which lead to their demise.

That, my friend, is Evolution in its most basic sense.

America is not at war. The military is at war. America is at the mall and the Congress is out to lunch.

mirage  posted on  2007-12-12   17:27:14 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#31. To: mirage (#30)

You're in way over your head here...have you considered the facts or do you just like making up stuff as you go?

My support for Ron Paul 2008 is as of this moment officially on hold until RP clarifies the "Kucinich" issue...


What North American Union? ~~~~~ Have you seen THIS yet? Pass it around...

FOH  posted on  2007-12-12   17:32:26 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#32. To: Original_Intent (#20)

I do so wish atheists were not addicted to logical fallacies and imputing postions to others which they do not hold, are unprovable, and assumed as factual by fiat.

What logical fallacies? The phrase "random evolution" was used. Evolutionary biologists don't think evolution is random.

First the Darwinist/Evolutionist/Atheist position, which is accepted on "faith in Almighty Darwin"...

Although often credited with it's discovery, Darwin didn't discover evolution. He came up with the idea of evolution by natural selection based upon his observations. Succinctly put, it means that the more successful an organism is at adaptation the more likely it is to survive and replicate. The notion that life evolved into increasingly complex forms over time is based on observable evidence. People seek refuge in faith when they just don't know any better.

...in the time frame positied the earth did not have an abundant Methane-Amonia Atmosphere, but that it was apparently dominated by Sulfur compounds, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Monoxide, Hydrogen, Nitrogen, and other trace gases.

Microscopic organisms have been discovered living and thriving in extremely hostile environments on Earth, which would be lethal to many other species.

As for Atheism being a default position that is again a logical fallacy...

I'm beginning to think that you don't understand what a logical fallacy is.

...an unsupported assumption...unbelief as a doctrine is equally a learned position

A newborn is completely ignorant about his environment except what he discerns through his senses. Lacking belief isn't a learned position. Some choose to use reason to discover answers. Others choose to engage in wild speculation without evidence because the appealing prospects are comforting.

Alan Chapman  posted on  2007-12-12   18:30:45 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#33. To: FOH (#31)

You're in way over your head here...have you considered the facts or do you just like making up stuff as you go?

Everything I've said is absolutely true.

It all boils down to taking things on Faith. Unless you can produce a deity and introduce me to that entity, you've got nothing but Faith to work with.

America is not at war. The military is at war. America is at the mall and the Congress is out to lunch.

mirage  posted on  2007-12-12   19:10:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#34. To: mirage (#10)

It's true that science can't explain the origin of the universe. The Big Bang offers an explanation only of formation and not of origin.

Not long ago, people thought sickness was caused by supernatural forces because they lacked the technology to see micro-organisms.

The main difference between science and religion is that science is an ongoing process. For many, faith is a conclusion and no further investigation is necessary.

Alan Chapman  posted on  2007-12-12   19:22:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#35. To: Alan Chapman (#34)

For many, faith is a conclusion and no further investigation is necessary.

This is true on all sides of this debate.

America is not at war. The military is at war. America is at the mall and the Congress is out to lunch.

mirage  posted on  2007-12-13   0:15:15 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#36. To: gengis gandhi, innieway, AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt, Zipporah (#0)

Based on his calculations, Led Adleman of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles has stated that one gram of DNA can store as much information as a trillion compact discs. (5) Gene Myers, a scientist employed on the Human Genome Project, has said the following in the face of the miraculous arrangements he witnessed:

"What really astounds me is the architecture of life… The system is extremely complex. It's like it was designed… There's a huge intelligence there." (6)

The most striking fact about DNA is that the existence of the coded genetic information can definitely not be explained in terms of matter and energy or natural laws. Dr. Werner Gitt, a professor at the German Federal Institute of Physics and Technology, has said this on the subject:

A code system is always the result of a mental process… It should be emphasized that matter as such is unable to generate any code. All experiences indicate that a thinking being voluntarily exercising his own free will, cognition, and creativity, is required… There is no known natural law through which matter can give rise to information, neither is any physical process or material phenomenon known that can do this. (7)

very cool

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robin  posted on  2007-12-13   0:39:26 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#37. To: mirage (#35)

Cosmology is among the most actively debated and researched fields of science. I wasn't aware that some scientists though that they had all the answers and decided that no further research was necessary. Maybe you're privy to information which I'm not.

Alan Chapman  posted on  2007-12-13   1:21:04 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#38. To: gengis gandhi (#0)

The 81-year-old British professor...

He feels the Heat, he's not seeing The Light....

"The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite." James Madison

X-15  posted on  2007-12-13   1:27:46 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#39. To: Alan Chapman (#37)

Maybe you're privy to information which I'm not.

No information, just common sense.

Scientists take it 'on faith' that they can figure it out.....eventually. Nobody knows if and/or when they will be able to do so.

As I keep saying....all sides take things 'on faith'....

America is not at war. The military is at war. America is at the mall and the Congress is out to lunch.

mirage  posted on  2007-12-13   2:29:26 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#40. To: FOH (#27)

Thank you for the kind words.

"When I die I want to go peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather - not screaming in terror like his passengers." - Unk.

Original_Intent  posted on  2007-12-13   2:42:57 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  



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