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In reply to the discussion: Neil deGrasse Tyson destroys argument for intelligent design [View all]cpwm17
(3,829 posts)230. That's a good point. n/t
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Hey, watch it. I had some schmevidence with my steak the other night, loved it.
randys1
Nov 2015
#118
The thermodynamic argument behind Intelligent Design has a simple mathematical error.
DetlefK
Nov 2015
#3
I think of it as a nuclear reactor that is 93 million miles away from the nearest elementary school
eridani
Nov 2015
#159
The smallest features in microprocessors are 15-20 nm. The smallest feature in an organism is <1nm.
DetlefK
Nov 2015
#226
That's either Lazarus Long or Jubal Harshaw speaking from Robert A. Heinlein's typewriter !
Bernardo de La Paz
Nov 2015
#18
And certainly some folks- like 12 steppers- are comfortable doing all sorts of semantic gymnastics
Warren DeMontague
Nov 2015
#167
Unfortunately, that requires a couple of very uncomfortable admissions that theists aren't ready to
Warpy
Nov 2015
#106
And even that seems implausible when you think about it. We're used to everything having...
ChisolmTrailDem
Nov 2015
#181
Would you like the Noah's Ark antibiotics or the ones that were intelligently designed?
Bernardo de La Paz
Nov 2015
#19
Being "created" by something was a way for early manking to make sense of the world.
ladyVet
Nov 2015
#20
Why would you post something that clearly wrongly attributes a quote to someone?
tabasco
Nov 2015
#119
Possibly the most idiotic piece of bumper sticker non-wisdom ever floated by the bs brigade.
Warren DeMontague
Nov 2015
#168
yet there is no evidence that a higher power doesnt exist. Enjoy your high horse.
7962
Nov 2015
#187
It is not somehow, science can give you the play by play down to what the atoms are doing.
Rex
Nov 2015
#75
Not at all hard to hash out. You have billions of years and trillions of objects colliding together
Rex
Nov 2015
#82
But now you're left with the harder problem of explaining where God came from ...
GeorgeGist
Nov 2015
#141
Also the mere fact of thousands of religions in the world, compounded with all the unknown
Rex
Nov 2015
#89
I started with encounters with Conway's program, referenced in Peter Gleick's book on Chaos.
immoderate
Nov 2015
#109
that is what often hangs me up is the beginning of the beginning of the universe
restorefreedom
Nov 2015
#49
The problem is that you have a problem of infinite regress, something had to have caused that...
Humanist_Activist
Nov 2015
#110
The thing is that the Big Bang is practically the only gap left for the "God of the gaps" to occupy.
Humanist_Activist
Nov 2015
#117
The Big Bang, from what we can tell, is the literal beginning, there was no "before"...
Humanist_Activist
Nov 2015
#160
He argues for a multiverse, not an infinite universe, those are different things...
Humanist_Activist
Nov 2015
#209
They could have triggered it maybe, but I doubt any information traveled from previous universes...
Humanist_Activist
Nov 2015
#216
You seem to forget that life on Earth is fine tuned for conditions on Earth, not the other way...
Humanist_Activist
Nov 2015
#114
Even if that assertion is true as you excerpted it(uncredited I might add), I don't...
Humanist_Activist
Nov 2015
#207
There are millions of planets in this galaxy; many are at the right distance from their sun
muriel_volestrangler
Nov 2015
#172
And an article on more recent thinking about the origins of cells, and the use of energy:
muriel_volestrangler
Nov 2015
#175
Loved Neil on with Bill Moyer speaking about Religion, Science and the Universe.
Stellar
Nov 2015
#51
I don't believe we're important enough to have a creator. Humans are fairly close to being nothing.
BlueJazz
Nov 2015
#153
Atheists can be pretty quick to congratulate themselves on debate points ...
King_Klonopin
Nov 2015
#161
Actually those only disprove a benevolent god, however, the fact is that...
Humanist_Activist
Nov 2015
#211