oldmanintheskydidntdoit
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Joined: July 2006
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vjtorlery explains more about ID then UD has managed in quite a while:
| Quote | | In a nutshell, the early Earth was extremely inhospitable to complex life, and it had to go through a number of environmental transformations before it could develop stable feedback systems and cycles that could support complex life-forms. A process like that necessarily takes billions of years, I believe: even a Deity couldn’t possibly do it faster, if He wanted an Earth capable of supporting complex life without the need for massive continual intervention. Intelligent Design does not require that kind of intervention. It requires the production of proteins at the dawn of life, and of the first living cell, as well as production of fundamental body plans, as well as each of the various families that have existed during the history of life on Earth (I’m assuming here that the family represents the approximate “edge of evolution”). If you’re a front-loader, you’re free to believe that all this was accomplished by fine-tuning the Big Bang to produce these results billions of years later. If that scenario strikes you as implausible, consider this: there are probably no more than 100,000 families of organisms that have existed during the four-billion-year history of life. That’s one new family of organisms produced by the Designer every 40,000 years. That’s hardly massive intervention, although at various times (e.g. after the Permian extinction) the frequency of intervention would of course have been somewhat greater. |
See Joseph? Not so hard.
I love the way he confidently asserts things like this
| Quote | | although at various times (e.g. after the Permian extinction) the frequency of intervention would of course have been somewhat greater |
without any irony whatsoever.
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I also mentioned that He'd have to give me a thorough explanation as to *why* I must "eat human babies".
FTK
if there are even critical flaws in Gauger’s work, the evo mat narrative cannot stand
Gordon Mullings
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