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| Quote (Reciprocating Bill @ Dec. 01 2008,15:20) | Daniel continues to press his rhetorical strategy:
| Quote (Daniel Smith @ Nov. 30 2008) | | In the meantime, no one here has addressed my original challenge. So Bill, rather than ignore me again for the hundredth time, how about you explain how natural processes produced some complex living system? It could be anything Bill. Any living system. ANYTHING! (Am I being too specific?) |
Yet:
| Quote (Daniel Smith @ Nov. 30 2008) | | Essentially you're saying that if we don't know the history of something, that 'something' is miraculous. Another non sequitur. |
Daniel, although the second quote was irrelevant to the comment to which it was addressed, you're exactly right: it doesn't follow that if we don't know the history of something, that "something" must have miraculous origins.
Yet it is also accurate to say that your repeated rhetorical gambit, paraphrased as "God Theory is supported if you can't show me a sufficiently detailed account of the origination of a complex living system" makes exactly that argument. Essentially you're saying that if we don't know the history of something, that 'something' is miraculous.
But that IS non-sequitur, as you rightly state. It does not follow from the fact that OOL remains unsolved, or that our understanding of the origins of many complex biological processes remains incomplete, that a "miraculous" cause (Goddidit) should be, or need be, or even can be evoked in a scientific context.
Time to drop that argument. |
Don't expect that to happen too soon Daniel is caught in a room full of echos he can only hear his own thoughts.
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