Plants are life but don't have consciousness, nor desires. Your thoughts about your error?Life will out because life is consciousness and all life has the desire to survive.
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Plants are life but don't have consciousness, nor desires. Your thoughts about your error?Life will out because life is consciousness and all life has the desire to survive.
Plants are life but don't have consciousness, nor desires.
There is a reason. You do not seem to be able to see it.How would they live? Why would a tree grow in a rocky crack on a mountain side for no reason?
You ignored the evidence I cited to show yew trees are conscious and tree roots. Almost every single bit of evidence and logic I cite are all ignored.
This is really very very simple. Life is consciousness and experience. It is the will to thrive and to do this every individual and "species" must learn and adapt. Those which fail will not have their genes represented.
All individuals are fit. Some individuals are unlucky or unable to adapt. Some individuals will perish before they learn.
Some humans are very slow learners but this hardly affects other species.
Only humans possess complex language so each individual for 40,000 years stood on the shoulders of giants. And now we can do it again.
They DO live. Ever eat vegetables? Those are plants, and they have no consciousness or desires.How would they live?
Because a seed landed in the crack and gets adequate moisture to grow. Simple.Why would a tree grow in a rocky crack on a mountain side for no reason?
Plants aren't conscious. They have no brains. What evidence could you have that botanists don't? None.You ignored the evidence I cited to show yew trees are conscious and tree roots. Almost every single bit of evidence and logic I cite are all ignored.
No, living brains have consciousness. Organisms without brains, or some sort of neural network, don't have consciousness.This is really very very simple. Life is consciousness and experience.
You don't know science.It is the will to thrive and to do this every individual and "species" must learn and adapt. Those which fail will not have their genes represented.
Well, you might be correct to say if offspring is born that is has a shot at survival. But it being fit depends on the environment during its reproductive life. If there is little food in a region with a lot of organisms that are starving, then the environment is too harsh for most of them to survive. There may be traits some have that allows them to access the limited food, and those traits will be selected by nature. So all are not fit ultimately. See your error?All individuals are fit. Some individuals are unlucky or unable to adapt. Some individuals will perish before they learn.
Don't feel bad about it.Some humans are very slow learners but this hardly affects other species.
Many other animals communicate. Try not to be too arrogant, you don't understand science, after all.Only humans possess complex language so each individual for 40,000 years stood on the shoulders of giants. And now we can do it again.
Isn't it precious that this fellow seems to think that if he dreams something up and writes a sentence about it that he is "citing evidence"...???You ignored the evidence I cited to show yew trees are conscious and tree roots. Almost every single bit of evidence and logic I cite are all ignored.
Flies do not make inverted landings because they have concentrated genes. Concentrated genes isn't even a thing.
I start the morning with a heaping bowl of McClintock's Concentrated Genes to give me jump on the day.Concentrated genes are the BEST kind!
No evidence for any of that, I see.I guess I am not suppose to believe what God has put in front of me he must be a deceiver - earth history shows us dinosaurs walked the earth for 100s of million years. All my geology classes must be a lie.We know all elements have to be created in stars or in the explosion of stars - all evidence says its not how it happened. God gave man intelligence to understand his environment and knew we would try to understand how it all came into being which we are still searching for. Why would he try to deceive man by planting this evidence. Why couldn't it happen as we understand it?
The devil didn't do it he's not a god and does not create. God is the creator of all.
Also how can a clear picture of Genesis be seen - after a few hundred years everyone died in the flood - the story had to of come from Noah and then hundreds of years later Moses wrote it and its an exact description?
Very much my view. We can use our intelligence to understand creation and that tells us how we must understand early scripture.I guess I am not suppose to believe what God has put in front of me he must be a deceiver - earth history shows us dinosaurs walked the earth for 100s of million years. All my geology classes must be a lie.We know all elements have to be created in stars or in the explosion of stars - all evidence says its not how it happened. God gave man intelligence to understand his environment and knew we would try to understand how it all came into being which we are still searching for. Why would he try to deceive man by planting this evidence. Why couldn't it happen as we understand it?
The devil didn't do it he's not a god and does not create. God is the creator of all.
Also how can a clear picture of Genesis be seen - after a few hundred years everyone died in the flood - the story had to of come from Noah and then hundreds of years later Moses wrote it and its an exact description?
after a few hundred years everyone died in the flood - the story had to of come from Noah
Except that there were no Noah and no flood about a thousand years before Moses, since there are no evidence of such destruction.The devil didn't do it he's not a god and does not create. God is the creator of all.
Also how can a clear picture of Genesis be seen - after a few hundred years everyone died in the flood - the story had to of come from Noah and then hundreds of years later Moses wrote it and its an exact description?
Men building the topic.Why do you think that story came from a man called Noah?
I have a different idea for the source of the flood story. The first thing to note is that it depicts a hapless, cruel, and not so bright deity. Why would such a story be there? This deity, who we are told elsewhere is perfect, is now described as having failed to create the kind of creature it wanted, regretted it, attempting to correct it not by supernaturally reprogramming the human population, but by drowning almost all terrestrial life, and then repopulating the earth using the same defective breeding stock. Why show such an intellectually and morally flawed god?
My guess is because they discovered marine fossils in the tops of the highest mountains. Consider how that would impact a primitive culture unaware of seafloor rising or geological time. What myth would arise to explain this? Obviously, the earth was once completely under water. Why would a good God do that? How would He do that? Rain, of course - lots of it. Never mind where the water came from or went to. Not an obstacle for God. Obviously, this would drown all terrestrial life, but there is still life, so God must have preserved some of these animals. Not an obstacle. He told Noah to build an ark and collect the animals. Never mind that some of these animals are thousands of miles away, or that reproducing the ark (Ken Ham's Ark Encounter tourist attraction) as described took millions of dollars, thousands of men, hundreds of truckloads of timber brought to the build site, cranes, and metal fasteners (bolts, hinges).
Why would a good and just God do this? The people needed to speculate on a plausible reason. Man must have deserved it. Why? Sin, of course.
If the mountain have seashells, and only acts of a morally perfect and omnipotent God could explain that, what other story is possible for people with no understanding of natural history, people who believed the earth was flat and stationary, and that the rain was water leaking through holes in a vault above?
Not only must a particular life form spontaneously arise, but the other organisms upon which it depends must have arisen in lock step.
Science is based on observation. Who has ever seen one genus becoming another?
If one does not believe Genesis it seems it would be better to just say, "I don't know how we all got here."
It is amazing to me how proud religious zealots are of their spectacular ignorance.Science is based on observation. Who has ever seen one genus becoming another?
I think @rrobs gave up some time ago. But it is one of the more stupid criticisms of evolution, certainly. Like a lot of this creationist boilerplate it only works rhetorically in front of an audience that knows nothing about science. Like fellow creationists, in fact.It is amazing to me how proud religious zealots are of their spectacular ignorance.