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Of course it makes sense that if a random process can come up with "berda" it can come up with "beard" or "bread" too. Why not? Just because the word "berda" doesn't make sense to you but the words "beard" and "bread" does it doesn't mean that the words "beard" and "bread" must have been produced by an intelligence does it?
No difference, the line "evolutionworkbyrandommutations" was randomly produced.
The same as the constant need for proof of anything. The more we know the more likely we are to be able to survive.What is the constant need for proof of a deity?
So then they would have to use logic, reason and common sense to show me wrong.
No it doesn't. Just take the letters b and r and a and e and d and put them in a little bag. Empty the bag on a table and from left to right they might spell out "bread" or "beard" or "draeb". No intelligence only randomness required to spell out words that make sense to you.By an intelligent program makes all the difference.
Nothing can't produce anything.The first logic is to prove to them that a thing can be produced from nothingness
Something has always existed in some form or other.How things came to existence?
No it doesn't. Just take the letters b and r and a and e and d and put them in a little bag. Empty the bag on a table and from left to right they might spell out "bread" or "beard" or "draeb". No intelligence only randomness required to spell out words that make sense to you.
Like throwing a bag of pennies on the floor - no combination of how the pennies align is any more miraculous than another. All combinations are possible until they arrange themselves - the final arrangement then gives an illusion of design and function to anyone looking to explain it.No it doesn't. Just take the letters b and r and a and e and d and put them in a little bag. Empty the bag on a table and from left to right they might spell out "bread" or "beard" or "draeb". No intelligence only randomness required to spell out words that make sense to you.
That changes nothing.Ask a cat to scramble them in a bag and not you.
Nothing can't produce anything.
Something has always existed in some form or other.
That changes nothing.
That would be due to random mutations etc.But for these letters to change positions
They don't have a "specific meaning or job" it's just that due to their natural properties the combination "bread" interacts with other molecules in such a way that a bread is produced and the combination "beard" have different natural properties and interacts with other molecules in such a way that a "beard" is produced. Understand that I'm grossly oversimplifying the process for you to understand the principle.and for each combinations to
have a specific meaning or job can't be due to randomness.
Sure. If a cat comes by and rips open a bag of "something", eventually you will be able to find a combination of "something" that looks purposeful and intelligently placed because you will find something that you recognize. If you leave that one good combination, and then have the cat do the same action a few hundred times, you'll begin to have a whole collection of things that seem intelligent, or purposeful, or functional. Looking out over all of these purposeful and functional combinations of things, you'll being to wonder... Did my cat create the Universe?Will the cat still do?
I see no reason to name what exists "God" and claim it's "incomparable to anything we know".That's what God is, the eternal thing which is incomparable to anything that we know.
Getting desperate are you?Ask a cat to scramble them in a bag and not you.
Are you claiming that if a cat knocks over a scrabble game and some of the letters on the floor should happen to spell out a word that means something to you the cat is God?Will the cat still do?
That changes nothing.
Fast forward to about 2:15 and watch how randomness changes into something that looks designed and preferred... This is a natural phenomena - devoid of intelligence or design.
That would be due to random mutations etc.
They don't have a "specific meaning or job" it's just that due to their natural properties the combination "bread" interacts with other molecules in such a way that a bread is produced and the combination "beard" have different natural properties and interacts with other molecules in such a way that a "beard" is produced. Understand that I'm grossly oversimplifying the process for you to understand the principle.
Sure. If a cat comes by and rips open a bag of "something", eventually you will be able to find a combination of "something" that looks purposeful and intelligently placed because you will find something that you recognize. If you leave that one good combination, and then have the cat do the same action a few hundred times, you'll begin to have a whole collection of things that seem intelligent, or purposeful, or functional. Looking out over all of these purposeful and functional combinations of things, you'll being to wonder... Did my cat create the Universe?
And the answer would still be , no.