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  1. Brian2

    How can you justify the sheer complexity that evolution would have to evolve?

    Then it is also a fallacious logical argument from incredulity to claim that nature did it all and not magic when the person claiming that does not believe in magic (or whatever the mocking synonym for God that the person might want to use).
  2. Brian2

    Not even Christians believe the *edit* of creation

    Response to what?
  3. Brian2

    Not even Christians believe the *edit* of creation

    I sort of disappeared but will get back to trying to answer your last post to me. In the meantime, have you seen the following video which also does not see anything pre existing that God made stuff from. It explains Genesis 1:1-3 almost as I have seen it, even with the alternative translation...
  4. Brian2

    How can you justify the sheer complexity that evolution would have to evolve?

    The evidence does not tell us that a creator is not needed.
  5. Brian2

    How can you justify the sheer complexity that evolution would have to evolve?

    What is to explain?
  6. Brian2

    How can you justify the sheer complexity that evolution would have to evolve?

    It's not really a logical fallacy unless someone is wanting to make it into a logical argument that proves that there is a creator. Otherwise it is one of the many things in life that can turn us to consider the possibility of a creator.
  7. Brian2

    Why do many Christians claim the Spirit of God is a Holy ‘Ghost’?

    Just reading the example sentences you gave shows me that those versions would not be good for modern readers.
  8. Brian2

    Why do many Christians claim the Spirit of God is a Holy ‘Ghost’?

    The answer is that the English language is called a living language and the meaning of words changes over time, depending on their useage. "Ghost" has a different connotation for many people these days than it used to have. This change of meaning of words is one reason that new translations are...
  9. Brian2

    Why do many Christians claim the Spirit of God is a Holy ‘Ghost’?

    No I,m not familiar with pre-1611 Bibles in English. A SDA minister gave a KJV Bible to me when I was studying Christianity as a young man. It had a concordance and I became familiar with that Bible and learned passages from that Bible. The word Ghost and Spirit in the KJV did not bother me as I...
  10. Brian2

    Why do many Christians claim the Spirit of God is a Holy ‘Ghost’?

    From What is the difference between the Holy Spirit and Holy Ghost? | GotQuestions.org Of the modern English translations of the Bible, it is only the King James Version of the Bible which uses the term “Holy Ghost.” It occurs 90 times in the KJV. The term “Holy Spirit” occurs 7 times in the...
  11. Brian2

    How do you detect "design"?

    Sorry, your misunderstanding. Sure, science does not tell us that the Flying Spaghetti Monster does not exist, but we believe that the FSM does not exist anyway,,,,,,,,,,,, just as you believe that gods do not exist because you reject evidence for them Even I reject the evidence for most of...
  12. Brian2

    How do you detect "design"?

    Yes, to have an idea of what I am on about you need to look at the context. And yes "living organisms" are made of chemicals, but that does not mean that "life" the thing that animates the chemicals, is chemicals. Yes, science cannot find or analyse spirit, but that is no reason to say that...
  13. Brian2

    How do you detect "design"?

    Science's limitations means that science can study only physical/material reality. When it is studying life forms, it is studying chemicals and it defines life in physical terms. When I talk about "life" I am talking about what animates chemicals to make them alive. Science's lack of evidence...
  14. Brian2

    How do you detect "design"?

    Since science does not say that a living spirit God does not exist, that means that science does not say that chemicals are the basis of life. If however you are talking about biological life, the word "biological" does tells us that chemicals are involved. We are talking about different...
  15. Brian2

    How do you detect "design"?

    Well I suppose we can deal with abiogenesis when someone does actually make living things from chemicals.
  16. Brian2

    How do you detect "design"?

    I suppose that eliminates any spirits, either in or outside of physical bodies. What brought you to your conclusion?
  17. Brian2

    How do you detect "design"?

    Just as I thought. While awaiting evidence for the supernatural, you follow the evidence, iow believe that there is no supernatural. You can't follow what you call evidence and believe there are no gods and also defer belief in gods (sit on the fence).
  18. Brian2

    How do you detect "design"?

    The fact that you can wave your hand and say 'ordinary observable chemistry and physics' does not take away the complexity of what is in that wave. Basically what you are saying is that you can't see a designer and so no designer is needed. And if there is no designer needed when you cannot see...
  19. Brian2

    How do you detect "design"?

    I'l go with the first one, that you are not following correctly. But that is OK, I don't expect atheists to be able to follow correctly. I forgive you. It sounds like you mean that you believe that there is no designer and do not believe that there is a designer? or at least that would be your...
  20. Brian2

    How do you detect "design"?

    Yes there are what we call the natural laws, wherever they came from. Science cannot say where they came from but humans either believe they come from a creator or not. Sometimes this belief or lack thereof is determined by a preconceived worldview. Some see the possibility of the...
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