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Proof of God (Alphabet Found on Butterfly Wings) Photographed by Smithsonian Institute

AxisMundi

E Pluribus Unum!!!
So genetic codes were programmed by evolution...

Who or what is evolution then, nothing but random speculation....

There has to be a DESIGNER involved, nothing evolves without a preprogrammed genetic code made by an intelligent designer.

God is our intelligent designer, not evolution.

Nothing comes from nothing, there has to be an intelligent designed/programmed beginning to all things

Evolution simplified...

Evolution is the process of adaptation as a species enters a new envorinmental niche in the never ending quest for new and abundant food sources, and protection from predators.

The examples you offered above are indeed evolutionary in origin. Bright colors to attract mates, large "eyes" to distract predators.

When there is simply too much evidence to support Evolution, the idea that there must be a Creator/Intelligent Designer (same thing), is further dismantled.
 

PolyHedral

Superabacus Mystic
So why does it work perfectly well inside computers? Does the Divine spirit bless our thinking machines?
 

AxisMundi

E Pluribus Unum!!!
I agree, it is controlled by a Divine spirit.

I find many who keep themselves willfully ignorant of Evolutionary science and/or the victim of a weak Faith view the world as "perfect" without examining what is actually going on.

Much like the "every thing's all love and light" fluffy bunnies one runs into in the Circles constantly, those annoying always smiling noobs who refuse to look in the dark corners of life.

If your "Intelligent Designer" actually existed, he screwed up big time.

The human spine is a fine structure for a quadruped, but in a biped, it is a fragile structure, a collapse waiting for a place to happen. The lower extremities as well take a beating.

Our appendix, an example of evolution, is no longer used and is prone to infection.

Octopi have better eyes than we do. In fact we have the worst sight, hearing, and smell capabilities of the vast majority of carnivores.

Babies are occasionally born with live threatening conditions and/or horrid physical defects. The human race suffers from everything including clubbed feet, acne, bent spines, arthritis, erectile dysfunction/frigidity, fatness, etc. Not to mention the numerous diseases that either disfigure us, weaken us, or kill us outright.

Quite simply, the world isn't exactly perfect, indeed far from, and not just with the human race in the small amount of examples I have given above of the maladies and diseases that fill up medical libraries.

No, all you have to offer are circular argument fallacies and non sequitures, you simply have nothing to offer to prove an Intelligent Designer, especially in light of the simple fact that we KNOW how things evolved to where they are today, including us.
 

Meow Mix

Chatte Féministe
I took a linear algebra class and it was assumed that there were 3 dimensions of space. Since there is a good deal of evidence that there is only three dimensions of space, that is what I am going to accept. I would like to ask you a question. What is a dimension? I think that this is an important question.

You're correct in that there's an assumption of 3 dimensions of space, particularly in linear algebra and vector calc.

A dimension is essentially a simplified word for a degree of freedom in a particular direction (spatially or temporally). We're readily aware of four dimensions in our universe, <x, y, z> spatial dimensions and <t> time dimensions. You can think of a dimension as how many coordinates it takes to describe the location of an event: you need its <x,y,z> coordinates as well as its <t> coordinate to describe... say, the fall of the berlin wall.

However, it's completely possible that there are more dimensions that we aren't aware of (though there is no way to test it yet, this shouldn't be read as it being "improbable" -- the fact remains that we don't know how probable it is at all just yet).

As an analogy, consider a stick figure on a 2-dimensional plane. He is familiar with <x,y> and <t> dimensions -- able to explore north, south, east, and west in time. He would be blissfully unaware of the dimensions "up" and "down" and very few experiments he can devise on his own plane would allow him to figure out that these exotic "third" directions exist. (That is, until he build a 2D supercollider powerful enough to test the limits of spacetime -- at which point it's possible for him to effectively experimentally verify the exotic "up/down" directions).

Consider also how a 2D being would perceive a sphere being passed through their plane: they would first see a point (the tip of the sphere), then as the sphere passes through their plane they would see a small circle growing larger all the way up until the sphere was halfway through the plane, at which point the circle they were able to see would get smaller until it became a point and vanished.

Likewise, a 4-dimensional sphere (called a hypersphere), if passed through our 3D space, would appear like a point that grows into a sphere up until the hypersphere were halfway through, then shrink to a point and vanish. There are a lot of tricks for trying to imagine what hyperdimensional objects would look like, but they can't really be visualized -- but they are for the most part completely mathematically understood. (For instance, you can calculate the volume of a hypercube by taking x * y * z * q, with q being the scalar of the extra dimension).
 

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
That's in the running for the most stupid comment I've ever read on the Internet. If so, why exactly was the original Bible written in Hebrew, Aramic and Greek? :facepalm:
And not to mention English grew out of roots from a few different languages. And if it's God's language, why did Jesus speak Aramaic? And why is the Bible of such a poor translation quality?
 
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