If Muslims want to claim that the Qur'an must be read in Arabic to be fully understood, Christianity could just as easily demand that the Bible be read in the original Aramic and Hebrew.
Here are the tenets of evolution:
- Replication
- Variation
- Selection
: lead to new species over time.
That's all. Really.
There's nothing about what evolved from what, or which exact evolutionary path occurred. That's all about how it PLAYED OUT. The fundamental tenets of evolution...
Again, you ignore the raw definition. Atheism is merely disbelief in a God.
You can be a rational atheist or an irrational atheist or a spiritual atheist.
All of the former tags do not affect the key definition; belief, or non-belief in a deity.
One more time:
Buildings cannot be compared to organic systems. Because buildings are not subject to:
- Replication
- Variation
- Selection
Ergo, they cannot evolve. Please indicate that organic systems must have come about by an intelligent direction and cannot have come about by the...
You just dodged the point. You first said 'emotional conciousness in humans is well defined'. But that would exclude mentally retarded people from humanity. You must therefore have a baser definition of humankind, which is essentially the biological definition, in which we are very similar to apes.
You forgot Ray Comfort. Here's a classic example of his ineptitude.
"With the help of God, I cast the spirit of rebellion from him, then asked a friend, who had come in to see what the noise was about, to get John a drink of water. When John came back to himself, I asked him what he had been...
Care to qualify that statement? No-one seriously proposes that every star system 'houses' intelligent life. Not every star system is capable of 'housing' intelligent life. This also assumes that the alien race will follow the same developmental pattern as us, developing a) technology and b)...