XPost: alt.agnosticism, alt.athiesm, alt.talk.creationism   
   XPost: sci.skeptic   
   From: me@nothere.biz   
      
   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. Dean"@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,   
   and your saying there's not doesn't make it go away   
      
   > you keep showing us that you know that I am correct.   
      
   in your dreams   
      
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