wnelson:
It is impossible to build information storage and retrieval systems, piecemeal. It cannot be done. But, not only are we expected to believe that that these systems were built piecemeal, but chaotically as well. All the explanation offered amounts to is a vague shell game of existing information, alleles, etc.
Apparently: Time + Chaos = Self-replicating Information Storage and Retrieval Systems.
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Of course the above “info-set” sophistry says absolutely nothing about “evolution through natural selection”.
Let’s try it again…
Natural Selection means different baby variations occur –because of cause and effect. Only some babies go on to eat and breed –as unwittingly decided by the local environment. If environments remain relatively unchanged for multigenerations, then this selection leads to family ‘types’ forming. As environments shift over time –because of cause and effect– different family types get selected. (This is why we see alive now and in earth’s record, different types of whatever: whales and dolphins, wolves and foxes, monkeys and chimps etc etc.)
And info set sophistry likewise says nothing about a-bio-genesis, though it aspires to. A-bio-genesis (the first DNA molecule creation) is also the story of particle-chain-reaction as part of the grand cause and effect and natural selection model.
(The Universe is a temperature/movement machine; ultimately different solids and their interactions. This movement is called “cause and effect” if humans process it, chaos/”luck” if they don’t. The principle of _movement, chain reaction and ‘natural selection’['which chain reaction pathways of movement continue converting energy and which don't']_ is very easy to understand.)
The “scientific principle” of ‘evolution through natural selection’ ends there. It is simply correct. And people that don’t “believe in it” are simply wrong. Period. No debate. (And you’re not equal too.)
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As for atheism, it doesn’t need an understanding of natural selection to exist. It simply needs the following:
Nature is red in tooth and claw as its main bio motor. It is horribly painful and bloody on a good day.
Either The Great Savant did this or is too weak to stop it.
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If god did ordain this from the beginning, so be it; if [he] sees and saw all the branching implications –_times 15 billion years (and continuing)_ of the particles, from the immense to minute, colliding and coalescing– then he is The Great Savant indeed.
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A terrible terrible savant…
Be afraid. Very afraid.
The only thing that lets this torturer in the sky off the hook is the comforting idea that he never exsisted.
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You look both ways before you cross the street right? You don’t just rely on god’s suppossed-active-control of the cause and effect of the road to protect you, do you? You look both ways, right? Well congratulations — you’re a scientist.
Have a cookie.
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Ultimately all this blabber is irrelevant. We need more culling war crime and less debate; In the end, that has always decided everything. The only thing left to understand is which narrative will be ‘best’ at holding together the succsseful killing hives of mindless automaton drones (otherwise called freewilled age of reason citizens).
Natural selection will decide.
…Natural selection will always decide and there aint nothing you can do about it.
And your god wouldn’t have it any other way.
