tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3829599.post112604526986560631..comments2024-01-28T00:20:40.933-08:00Comments on Agoraphilia: Why Does God Recycle?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3829599.post-1126502387981652152005-09-11T22:19:00.000-07:002005-09-11T22:19:00.000-07:00So, because Adam ate this fruit (which was bad, I ...So, because Adam ate this fruit (which was bad, I understand, because it allowed him to understand stuff like 'bad'), perfect and efficient biological systems evolved over 6000 years to the point where they are now something like double-Rube Goldbergs? Ah, of course, it all makes sense.<BR/><BR/>And as for Occam's Razor, it says that unnecessary elements should not be added. Scientific fact might seem more complex - I mean, why believe every object in the universe attracts every other object, directly proportional to the mass of the objects and inversely proportional to the distance between them, while quantum theory, having been successful in explaining other phenomena in the past, posits the existence of sub-sub-subatomic particles as the cause, although some believe in gravity waves - but it only includes elements known to exist. Natural selection exists. Mutation exists. Genetic drift exists. A whole bunch of other factors, I'm sure, exist, and are known to exist, and combined together, over large scales of time can cause speciation. Simple as that.Jarlsberg's Chosenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13534668097968123394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3829599.post-1126241575169041722005-09-08T21:52:00.000-07:002005-09-08T21:52:00.000-07:00JB -- Why *not* reinvent the wheel? The only reas...JB -- Why *not* reinvent the wheel? The only reason for us humans not to is to save effort. But God can exert infinite effort at zero cost -- that's what it means to be omnipotent. There's no reason for God to economize on design concepts if he has unlimited creative capacity.Glen Whitmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01425907466575991113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3829599.post-1126122304881395262005-09-07T12:45:00.000-07:002005-09-07T12:45:00.000-07:00I'm not religious at all, but I always thought tha...I'm not religious at all, but I always thought that god would seem a lot more omnipotent and sublime had he created the universe at the big bang, knowing that the laws of physics would one day give rise to humanity. <BR/><BR/>That seems a little more persuasive and awe-inspiring than a god "laboring" for 6 days to create the world. <BR/><BR/>Velutha seems to believe the first version. :)Calibanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00211122145450234526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3829599.post-1126092855119669592005-09-07T04:34:00.000-07:002005-09-07T04:34:00.000-07:00Hi. I'm catholic. I believe that God created the U...Hi. I'm catholic. I believe that God created the Universe. But I have no problem believing in the Big Bang and in the evolution. Creationism as a theory that claims that the world was created as described in the book of Genesis seems an absurd to me. The Genesis is a poetic, methaphoric book. As much of the Old Testament. Or the book of Apocalipse, in the New Testament. The fatc that there are schools where children aren't allowed to learn about the evolution of species sounds, to me, like something out of the Midle Ages. Best Regards, Nuno.anarrestihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06779807365047142210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3829599.post-1126046505358168422005-09-06T15:41:00.000-07:002005-09-06T15:41:00.000-07:00One must also consider the wastefulness of the gen...One must also consider the wastefulness of the genetic code when we consider how much of one's genetic sequence is inactive entirely or becomes inactive after the cell or tissue specializes and differentiates into its final form (e.g., all of the genes controlling muscle cell behavior that are present but inactive in every tissue except for muscle).BeingHumanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13613426160645713741noreply@blogger.com