I would agree that many laymen out there will blindly follow science and scientific theories with little understanding, including the Theory of Evolution, but it doesn't make it any less wrong. Evolution it self, is not a belief system, even if many laymen treat it like one. Furthermore, many...
It's not a hard guess to make regardless. No matter how you slice it, the Quran pointing out the association of water and life isn't anything substantial at all.
No it's all still just chemistry. The reason why you can't bring the dog back is because you permanently alter the dog by killing it. The cells start breaking down shortly after death and that prevents resuscitation. If you could reverse the brake-down of cells, you could resuscitate the dogs...
You took me saying "something's wrong" out of context, probably deliberately. What I meant was, if a car fails to start, it means there's something mechanically faulty. If an organism is failed to be resuscitated, it means there's something physiologically faulty.
A lot of it is due to emotional-based beliefs. People invoke a supernatural cause for life because they want to believe that. They don't want to disbelieve it. It's the very definition of irrational.
And sometimes you might reassemble a car and it still doesn't work. What's your point?
In both cases, it means something is wrong. Something isn't quite intact. Something is damaged. There's always a reason.
Well "a few" is an understatement. I'm saying when reassembling life, the precision required is many magnitudes greater than reassembling a car, and the room for error is way smaller. Nevermind Chevys. We could be talking about the Koenigsegg One:1, arguably THEE most highly engineered car in...
Nope. It's all purely chemistry in the end. It's just extremely complex.
I also reckon if you could, theoretically, reassemble a dog perfectly the way it was, taking every little cell and molecule into account, it would be alive again. The moment you take the dog apart, it dies, and it's cells...
I imagine sometime in the near or distant future, we humans will start modifying our DNA directly. That's probably going to be the next major step in human "evolution".
That doesn't mean whatever you imagine is real. Imagination is thinking of possibilities and ideas. As Blastcat said, you don't stop there. You have to check with reality to see if whatever you imagine is real.
I hate to play devil's advocate, but don't all (or most) animals think and feel? I wouldn't really call it a human-exclusive trait as it's quite a broad trait. Though I agree that the god of the Bible definitely has a plethora of human traits. No doubt about it.
That makes sense too. It may have to do with selection pressure. I think under low selection pressure, smaller populations may be the ones to evolve faster since a given gene will spread through the population quicker. Whereas with a larger population, a given gene will take longer to spread to...
Yes and no. Sometimes it's the bigger population that can evolve faster, or rather, adapt better, because bigger populations tend to have more genetic variety. E.g. if there's a sudden change in the environment, the organisms with the bigger population are more likely to have individuals that...
I would say that humans, currently, are subjected to a very very low, almost non-existent, selection pressure. E.g. humans with bad eyes-sight don't get selected out. They just wear glasses or contacts, or get lasik. Things like wisdom teeth aren't really being selected out. We just surgically...