Is there a God?

[azeth]

Originally Posted by Teppler [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You know I’ve seen a number of people insult that man now, how about just proving him wrong?

This is a situation where someone's perspective is so absurd that you just write them off and remove them from your life versus engage

"If people decide they’re going to deny the facts of history and the facts of science and technology, there’s not much you can do with them. For most of them, I just feel sorry that we failed in their education." - Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt

[feniin]

Originally Posted by azeth [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This is a situation where someone's perspective is so absurd that you just write them off and remove them from your life versus engage

100%. It's like arguing with someone about the fact that birds exist.

[Horza]

Originally Posted by feniin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

100%. It's like arguing with someone about the fact that birds exist.

[Jimjam]

I never even see the best argument against evolution; that copies deteriorate in quality.

Evolution would be like taking an image of a 420 million year old shark, producing a bunch of photocopies of that shark, throwing away the 'unfit' sharks and then producing a bunch of new photo copies from those sharks that didn't get discarded. Assuming an average generational gap of 5 years, this process should after 84 million iterations produce an image of almost every species of vertebrate currently living on earth.

I'll be honest, it doesn't sound feasible, and I say that as someone who actually believes in the process of evolution.

[Teppler]

There are ancient artifacts that seems as if they are describing a process of genetically building a man-

https://www.annunaki.org/wp-content/...-the-bible.jpg

[solleks]

Originally Posted by Jimjam [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I never even see the best argument against evolution; that copies deteriorate in quality.

Evolution would be like taking an image of a 420 million year old shark, producing a bunch of photocopies of that shark, throwing away the 'unfit' sharks and then producing a bunch of new photo copies from those sharks that didn't get discarded. Assuming an average generational gap of 5 years, this process should after 84 million iterations produce an image of almost every species of vertebrate currently living on earth.

I'll be honest, it doesn't sound feasible, and I say that as someone who actually believes in the process of evolution.

its science fiction, you need facts to back up an idea like that.

[Horza]

Originally Posted by Jimjam [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I never even see the best argument against evolution; that copies deteriorate in quality.

Evolution would be like taking an image of a 420 million year old shark, producing a bunch of photocopies of that shark, throwing away the 'unfit' sharks and then producing a bunch of new photo copies from those sharks that didn't get discarded. Assuming an average generational gap of 5 years, this process should after 84 million iterations produce an image of almost every species of vertebrate currently living on earth.

I'll be honest, it doesn't sound feasible, and I say that as someone who actually believes in the process of evolution.

I believe this is the reason (or at least one of them) that sexual reproduction developed, in order to weed such defects out of the gene pool.

[Jimjam]

You're not wrong.

Evolution laughs in the phase of the pragmatic rule that copies can only deteriorate in quality.

*but sticking to the example, one could argue that after 82,000,000 iterations of photocopying a shark and throwing away the unfit copies, the resulting picture of a human would be a pretty poor copy of a shark.

[rebeccablack]

maybe photocopies are just kind of a bad metaphor for sexual reproduction

[Jimjam]

yes - thats the point.

Evolution says photocopy a shark 80 million times to get a picture of a human.