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Abiogenesis and evolution: James Tour

Abiogenesis and evolution: James Tour

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@kellyjay said
They are visible to us, and how they are manifested with water seems poetic.
You can say anything about nature "seems" poetic.

A quiet thunder storm during a summer night can "seem" poetic. Does that mean a designer made water molecules to have positive and negative charges to create a giant destructive force that can damage ear drums just from the sound it causes?

If you think a dog crapping on your lawn is "poetic" is that opinion evidence of design?

"Poetic" is purely your opinion and therefore unscientific. So is whatever you perceive as "design" in nature.

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So for you, god aimed the asteroid that hit in Mexico 66 million years ago that ended the era of dinosaurs?

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@sonhouse said
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So for you, god aimed the asteroid that hit in Mexico 66 million years ago that ended the era of dinosaurs?
No, no, it was the global flood, dummy.

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@vivify said
You can say anything about nature "seems" poetic.

A quiet thunder storm during a summer night can "seem" poetic. Does that mean a designer made water molecules to have positive and negative charges to create a giant destructive force that can damage ear drums just from the sound it causes?

If you think a dog crapping on your lawn is "poetic" is that opinion evidence o ...[text shortened]... purely your opinion and therefore unscientific. So is whatever you perceive as "design" in nature.
Let me know when you wish to continue a conversation.

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@sonhouse said
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So for you, god aimed the asteroid that hit in Mexico 66 million years ago that ended the era of dinosaurs?
That is your story/narrative not mine.

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@kellyjay said
Let me know when you wish to continue a conversation.
This must be what Indonesia Phil was talking about when he pointed out you dodge points you can't counter. And here you are again.

I've noticed something: never once do you use any facts that can actually be looked up to support what you say. Everyone else points out specific facts about nature to make their point while your responses are always, without exception, vague unscientific philosophical musings.

What is the last scientific fact you mentioned? Have you mentioned even one in this thread? I brought the Island Rail, a small bird whose wings don't work, the fact that most of the universe is empty, lifeless and void, etc., all facts that make ID seem silly....while you response with "rainbows are pretty!"

Anyone: what is the last scientific fact Kelly brought up on his own? Has he done that once?

Kelly is simply ill-equipped to discuss scientific matters.

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@vivify said
This must be what Indonesia Phil was talking about when he pointed out you dodge points you can't counter. And here you are again.

I've noticed something: never once do you use any facts that can actually be looked up to support what you say. Everyone else points out specific facts about nature to make their point while your responses are always, without exception, vague ...[text shortened]... p on his own? Has he done that once?

Kelly is simply ill-equipped to discuss scientific matters.
I am talking about instructions within life, are they evidence of a mind or mindlessness. You brought up rainbows 🌈 and shadows as if that were a talking point someone was pushing. You then proceeded to bring up dog 🐕 $hit say something worth addressing I will, in the meantime you just are stinking up the conversation.

Condescend much, this is on par with the stupid question comment.

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I am talking about instructions within life, are they evidence of a mind or mindlessness. You brought up rainbows 🌈 and shadows as if that were a talking point someone was pushing. You then proceeded to bring up dog 🐕 $hit say something worth addressing I will, in the meantime you just are stinking up the conversation.

Condescend much, this is on par with the stupid question comment.
The point is you have no criteria to define "designed".

How do you differentiate between something that was designed and something that's not? This was point of bringing up rainbows, which you suggested was designed by bringing up Noah. That indicates you have no idea what is designed and what isn't since rainbows are clearly not designed.

Unless you can show the difference between something that was designed and something that wasn't you have no case for a creator.

Can you do that? It seems not.

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@kellyjay said
Let me know when you wish to continue a conversation.
What conversation? You're just spouting un-Christian Mormon nonsense into the void and never responding to anyone's points at all.

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@vivify said
The point is you have no criteria to define "designed".

How do you differentiate between something that was designed and something that's not? This was point of bringing up rainbows, which you suggested was designed by bringing up Noah. That indicates you have no idea what is designed and what isn't since rainbows are clearly not designed.

Unless you can show the dif ...[text shortened]... igned and something that wasn't you have no case for a creator.

Can you do that? It seems not.
Not just designed, a pile of rocks has a design, a snowflake has a design, pouring paint on a floor by accident has a design. Functionally specialized systematic design with stop-start, error checking features as well as other features that support and cause specific work to be done is the topic.

Granted that is more complicated than a shadow. Even dog poop 💩 originated from a complex system with more physical parts than a rainbow,

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@vivify said
The point is you have no criteria to define "designed".

How do you differentiate between something that was designed and something that's not? This was point of bringing up rainbows, which you suggested was designed by bringing up Noah. That indicates you have no idea what is designed and what isn't since rainbows are clearly not designed.

Unless you can show the dif ...[text shortened]... igned and something that wasn't you have no case for a creator.

Can you do that? It seems not.
Clearly, if you don’t know how they were made, how does “clearly” come into play concerning rainbows. The point of the conversation is identifying designs that would not through mindless natural causes be identified. You understand why and how the universe works so you can tell what is and isn’t designed?

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@kellyjay said
Clearly, if you don’t know how they were made, how does “clearly” come into play concerning rainbows. The point of the conversation is identifying designs that would not through mindless natural causes be identified. You understand why and how the universe works so you can tell what is and isn’t designed?
You're not answering the question. How do you know when something *isn't* designed?

Regarding rainbows we know how they're formed. That's why we know they're made by unguided natural process: rainbows are just an illusion, a trick of scattered light.

It seems ID relies on ignorance. You don't know how it works so therefore God did it. The writers of the Bible didn't know how rainbows were formed so it must've been God.

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@vivify said
You're not answering the question. How do you know when something *isn't* designed?

Regarding rainbows we know how they're formed. That's why we know they're made by unguided natural process: rainbows are just an illusion, a trick of scattered light.

It seems ID relies on ignorance. You don't know how it works so therefore God did it. The writers of the Bible didn't know how rainbows were formed so it must've been God.
I answered you depending on what you mean by design! Snowflakes, accidental paint spills have designs. Arranging letters to form words, put together with other words to convey an idea, is a design. Having instructions that accomplish tasks with information is a much more complex design.

When intention is used to create out of incredible number of possible choices that don’t do or mean anything, selecting just the ones that do, shows intent. The higher the probability of wrong or bad choices the more improbable the right answers are. Mindlessness is inadequate to overcome what we we see in life.

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@kellyjay said
I answered you depending on what you mean by design!
"How do you know when something *isn't* designed?"---Vivify

Please answer that.

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@vivify said
This must be what Indonesia Phil was talking about when he pointed out you dodge points you can't counter.
KellyJay uses his manufacture turned religious outrage as an excuse to ignore posters who challenge his man-made doctrines and unsupportable moral vacuums.

I’m one poster, FMF is another on his huff list. Indonesia Phil is on semi-huff, you’re not far behind.

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