That's to say, you can't offer any evidence for your own case, your assertion that it was done by magic.
That's not because it's incorrect. It's because you wish not to believe it, so as to protect your magical view.
You really really want magic to be true, don't you.
And yet it explains...
What definition of 'clade' are you using?
According to Wikipedia,
"In biological phylogenetics, a clade (from Ancient Greek κλάδος (kládos) 'branch'), [...] is a grouping of organisms that are monophyletic – that is, composed of a common ancestor and all its lineal descendants – on a...
Careful with your wording here.
Scientists don't know how chemistry became biochemistry, though it's an area of active research with interesting developments and insights from time to time.
(Contrast that to the complete failure of the churches to even attempt to develop any falsifiable theory...
It is a fact is that the total number of authenticated instances of magic is zero.
I'm not aware of who here may claim they can talk with the dead, but here's an easy test. Ask your friends who can talk to the dead to ask my late sister for the name of her friend in Hong Kong who drove a Rolls...
As you know, magic is the alteration of reality independently of the rules of reality, and a miracle is magic performed by a god.
As you also know, the number of authenticated examples of magic stands at zero. (You may recall the late James Randi organized a prize, ultimately of $1,000,000, for...
Like any other field of knowledge, you need to inform yourself to at least the basic threshold of understanding, something you seem proud to have refused to do.
Magic is the alteration of reality independently of the rules of reality. It has zero known demonstrations.
A miracle is magic...
I'll refrain from commenting on your 'no intelligent person' line, and your qualifications for using it.
And we've been through all of what you said before.
You seem very like someone who listens only to reject, in order to maintain the untenable proposition that the bible is inerrant. In...
You still haven't found that missing 1.1 billion cubic miles of water over and above the water presently on the earth so that you can cover the tops of the tallest mountains.
You still can't point to that universal geological flood layer all over all continents and island and the sea floor...
But the whole problem here is that you believe in magic, while your colloquists here largely understand the world in terms of science.
So the counterquestion to your refusal to accept evolution is, How does magic work? For example, what exactly was the process that occurred to bring the EM...
Perhaps you could understand it better if by way of analogy you look at how the bible God evolved from amongst the earlier gods of Mesopotamia and their (Semitic) Canaanite counterparts.
And how [he] evolves in the bible
─ from [his] henotheistic origins ('Thou shall have no other gods before...
Perhaps it depends on what you mean by Christianity.
Leaving behind the worldwide sex scandals that rocked the Christian church across two or three decades in recent memory, I'd say there's plenty that might appear wrong or contemptible up the money end of Christianity, and not only in the US...
If God is real then God is found in reality. But instead, God never appears, never says, never does. That's because [he] only exists as an idea, albeit a much acculturated one.
Reality is the world external to the self, which we know about via our senses. If you can point to X out there, then X is real. If you can't, it's simply notional.
There are difficulties with your analogy, I fear, in that A may think he know exactly what B is attempting to communicate, but it's impossible to verify such a conclusion ─ even if it sounds good to B.
But I persist in my view that the only way gods are known to exist is as concepts in...