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Otangelo

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Posted: Nov. 18 2015,15:35

Quote (NoName @ Nov. 18 2015,15:19)

All the design claims can possibly lead to are conclusions that intelligent living material beings created life on earth.
Obviously, this solves no problems, but merely shifts the problem elsewhere. As such it is worse than nonsense, it is useless nonsense.

This is one of many reasons why 'design inferences' fail. They have no explanatory power.
Design explains nothing.
You need evidence of manufacture. This is starkly missing.

So far all you have done is trot out more and more strained arguments from incredulity.
Your claim, which you still need to defend, is that abiogenesis is impossible.

It clearly occurred -- life exists.
There is nothing in or about life that violates the laws of chemistry and physics.
Thus, there are no grounds for inferring anything other than chemical and physical abiogenesis.
Attempts to drag poorly defined, vague and equivocal notions like 'information' into the argument, and allowing them to trump far better grounded arguments, are unjustifiable. They all amount to arguments from incredulity and special pleading.
Worse, from the perspective of the enterprise of human knowledge, they all seek to make a positive claim based solely on asserted problems with the existing explanations.
Flaws in our current understanding of anything at all provide no positive support for otherwise unsupported assertions masquerading as arguments.

So to repeat the question you continue to avoid, about a claim you yourself made quite emphatically
Why is abiogenesis not merely unlikely or improbable, but impossible?

Two points here :

How exactly did God create things ? what process was involved ?

http://reasonandscience.heavenforum.org/t1794-h....nvolved

Looking at the account of Genesis 1:1 for just a brief moment, the words in that first verse are quite remarkable. They are indicative of the incredible mind of God. God says in that first verse everything that could have been said about creation and He says it in such few terms. The statement is precise and concise almost beyond human composition.

A well-known scientist named Herbert Spencer died in 1903. He discovered that all reality, all reality, all that exists in the universe can be contained in five categories...time, force, action, space and matter. Herbert Spencer said everything that exists, exists in one of those categories...time, force, action, space and matter.

Now think about that. Time, force, action, space and matter. That is a logical sequence. And then with that in your mind, listen to Genesis 1:1. "In the beginning," that's time..."God," that's force, "created," that's action, "the heavens," that's space, "and the earth," that's matter. Everything that could be said about everything that exists is said in that first verse.

Now either you believe that or you don't. You either believe that that verse is accurate and God is the force or you believe that God is not the force that created everything. And then you're left with chance or randomness or coincidence.

In genesis it says God spoke and things came into existence. God is a potent cause with power ( energy ) and his spoken word indicates information. Because we do not understand and in a detailled manner how he created the physical universe, and life, does not mean God does not understand or can't. Mystery to us is not mystery to God, but we do know that God is not limited to His spiritual realm, as he shown with his becoming of flesh in Jesus Christ.

Argument from incredulity

http://reasonandscience.heavenforum.org/t1724-a....ty#2738

Incredulity is based on human experience and on what we actually know. For example, the belief in abiogenesis can be strongly doubted, one can be skeptical of it, because it has never been observed and all proposals have lead to a dead end so far. So its more than rational to look somewhere else. What has been observed is biogenesis, life coming from life. What we know is that the complexity in the natural world of living organisms is similar to, in fact much greater than, the complexity of intelligently created devices, such as the clock or the computer. You might implie that incredulity is an unreasonable position, but it is in fact a foundation for all critical thought. Sensible people do not believe things without evidence. Consider the opposite, credulity; there is no context in which that is not a pejorative word! Considering what atheists are willing to believe, can indeed be classed as credulous.

It is also quite proper for a person of one religion or philosophy to be skeptical of the beliefs of another one. The religion of naturalism, which is the basis of evolution, can properly be rejected by a biblical theist. The evolutionist system may be dominant in some parts of the world, but that says nothing about whether it is true. Many have looked at it and found it inadequate; they have found good reasons to be skeptical of it, especially since theism better explains very many features of the natural world.

When i say that something is unbelievable or inconceivable, i give good reasons. If my whole argument were simply an unsupported statement of unbelief, you would have a good point; to say something is unbelievable without giving a reason is not a good argument. But the problem is that you oversimplify; you do not address the reasons for incredulity.

Incredulity is an argument of scepticism about a certain point of view, and the evolutionist and atheist are not innocent of using such an argument. Incredulity, doubt and scepticism about God and special creation, are implicit in every naturalistic explanation about abiogenesis and many other facets of their view points.

This kind of arguments are frequent :

how can a perfect deity create such a messed up world? (translation: it is inconceivable that a perfect deity could create such a messed up world, therefore, since evolution is a theory of messed-up, random natural forces and actions, it must be true)
how can (a certain part of a living organism, e.g., the human eye) be designed when it has this mistake or that problem? (translation: it is inconceivable that an intelligent divine designer could create that supposedly malfunctioning part of the living organism; therefore it must have been formed through random, unintelligent, natural forces, i.e. evolution)

All of these arguments could be accurately classed as arguments of incredulity. If no reason is given, any argument from incredulity is weak.

And i repeat it WITH ALL LETTERS. Upon what we have learned through research of the origin of life, abiogenesis is not merely unlikely or improbable. It is IMPOSSIBLE by all means. Period.

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