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   felix_unger to mur.@.not.   
   Re: Undeniable ruination of news group a   
   11 Jan 15 11:58:07   
   
   XPost: alt.athiesm, alt.flame.jesus.christ, alt.talk.creationism   
   XPost: sci.skeptic   
   From: me@nothere.biz   
      
   On 11-January-2015 5:11 AM, mur.@.not. wrote:   
   > On Mon, 05 Jan 2015 10:57:31 +1100, felix_unger  wrote:   
   > ..   
   >> On 05-January-2015 4:53 AM, mur.@.not. wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On Sat, 03 Jan 2015 11:04:30 -0600, Free Lunch    
   wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> On Sat, 03 Jan 2015 15:22:13 +1100, felix_unger  wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> On 03-January-2015 3:33 AM, Free Lunch wrote:   
   >>>>>> On Fri, 02 Jan 2015 20:21:00 +1100, felix_unger  wrote:   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> On 02-January-2015 3:15 PM, mur.@.not. wrote:   
   >>>>>>>> On Mon, 29 Dec 2014 10:19:35 -0600, Free Lunch    
   wrote:   
   >>>>>>>> ..   
   >>>>>>>>> On Mon, 29 Dec 2014 07:44:22 -0500, mur.@.not. wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>> On Fri, 26 Dec 2014 13:31:32 -0600, Free Lunch  wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>>> .   
   >>>>>>>>>>> On Wed, 24 Dec 2014 15:09:06 -0500, " R. Dean" <"R.    
   ean"@gmail.com>   
   >>>>>>>>>>> wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>>>> On 12/24/2014 8:58 AM, Free Lunch wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>>>>>> On Mon, 22 Dec 2014 22:54:43 -0500, " R. Dean" <"R.   
   Dean"@gmail.com>   
   >>>>>>>>>>>>> wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>>>> ...   
   >>>>>>>>>>>>>> This is just one example of evidence which could seen as   
   evidence of   
   >>>>>>>>>>>>>> common ancestry, but this fact could just as well be seen as   
   evidence of   
   >>>>>>>>>>>>>> deliberate intelligent design.   
   >>>>>>>>>>>>> Not really, but you do a good job of cherrypicking.   
   >>>>>>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>>>> Can you give even _one_ reason as to why this _SHOULD_NOT_ be   
   seen as an   
   >>>>>>>>>>>> excellent example of a elegant, ingenuous engineering design far   
   in   
   >>>>>>>>>>> ingenuous means dishonest.   
   >>>>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>>>> advanced of it's need; a design which has the capacity of being   
   able to   
   >>>>>>>>>>>> control the development of all animal species using the exact   
   same set   
   >>>>>>>>>>>> of homeobox genes. And this "toolkit" being able to form the   
   bodies and   
   >>>>>>>>>>>> organs of all species from the earliest complex animals to   
   currently   
   >>>>>>>>>>>> existing species?   
   >>>>>>>>>>> You are inventing a story that is unneeded. It isn't a valid   
   argument   
   >>>>>>>>>>> for your hypothesis because it fits evolution. If you want to   
   argue that   
   >>>>>>>>>>> there is a designer, you need to provide evidence for a designer   
   >>>>>>>>>>        WHAT sort of evidence do you think there should be, WHERE do   
   you think it   
   >>>>>>>>>> should be,   
   >>>>>>>>> It's your hypothesis, you should be able to tell us how exactly what   
   >>>>>>>>> evidence would show that there was an intelligent designer of life   
   >>>>>>>>> rather than merely natural processes. That would include showing us   
   >>>>>>>>> specific evidence that this is different from abiogenesis and   
   evolution.   
   >>>>>>>>> If you merely assert some vague form of theistic evolution that says   
   >>>>>>>>> that a deity was guiding the natural processes that we have observed,   
   >>>>>>>>> your deity is indistinguishable from nothing.   
   >>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>> I realize that this would require those who reject science to learn   
   >>>>>>>>> science, but that is their problem, not the problem of scientists.   
   >>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>> WHY do you think it should be made available to humans, and WHEN do   
   >>>>>>>>>> you think it should be or should have been made available, if there   
   truly is a   
   >>>>>>>>>> designer?   
   >>>>>>>>> Why do you assume that any designer would be so ashamed of the   
   >>>>>>>>> incompetence of its design that it would try to hide every bit of   
   >>>>>>>>> evidence that it was responsible for designing?   
   >>>>>>>>         I don't. I take it for granted that no one is able to get to   
   the proof   
   >>>>>>>> you're referring to, and he doesn't feel that it's best for what he   
   wants to see   
   >>>>>>>> happen for him to make it available to us. In fact that seems very   
   obvious, yet   
   >>>>>>>> to you it's incomprehensible. WHY you're not able to comprehend much   
   less   
   >>>>>>>> appreciate something so easy to understand, is a much bigger question   
   than why   
   >>>>>>>> he would not provide proof of his existence for everyone. Your own   
   inability to   
   >>>>>>>> comprehend something so easy IS evidence of God's existence by being   
   evidence of   
   >>>>>>>> Satan's influence on pathetic humans' minds btw, as I feel sure I've   
   pointed out   
   >>>>>>>> for you more than once already.   
   >>>>>>> you'd have more success pointing out things to a brick wall than to Dr.   
   >>>>>>> No, LOL!   
   >>>>>> As long as you keep making excuses for why there is absolutely no   
   >>>>>> evidence for any religion or any deity,   
   >>>>> another of your lies. I don't make excuses because there is evidence,   
   >>>> So you keep claiming, but it is clear that you have no evidence to   
   >>>> present to us.   
   >>>       The fact that you lie about it makes YOU evidence. The fact that a   
   number of   
   >>> atheists lie about it is pretty strong evidence.   
   >>>   
   >> I don't bother with 'free'. he is such a liar. how many times have we   
   >> described here what evidence there is for God? more than a dozen times I   
   >> would think. and he just says it's not evidence, and then a bit later on   
   >> will claim that we have never presented any evidence.   
   >      He does seem to be extremely weak of mind but strong on dishonesty.   
   >   
   >> I refuse to give   
   >> him the satisfaction of doing it all over again.   
   >      I'm still hoping that at some point he will finally figure out what   
   sort of   
   > evidence he thinks there should be, where he thinks it should be, why he   
   thinks   
   > it should be made available, and when he thinks it should have been or   
   should be   
   > made available. Or any one of those things. Then again if he never does   
   figure   
   > out what he thinks he thinks and continues to prove that instead as he has   
   been   
   > doing, at least we know that much about him. And about ALL of them it   
   certainly   
   > appears.   
   >   
   >> (gotta go. I'll look at your other recent posts later)   
   >      I'd like to see what you think about what I mentioned regarding   
   astrology,   
   > and wonder why you think no atheists said anything similar.   
      
   have now   
      
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