As far as the proof that God doesn't exist thing goes....
Example 1.
All quarks, photons, neutrinos etc.etc. are actually being pushed around by a huge number of incredibly tiny elves that are undetectable in any way except for their ability to push fundamental particles around.
Prove this to be wrong.
stupid example 2.
We actually live in the matrix.
You cannot prove this to be wrong, hence it must be right? No. That would be a stupid thing to think.
The point being that you should only believe things that can be proved as there are an infinite number of things that could exist but cannot be proved to not exist.
On the topic of evolution, here's a simple, real life example of evolution occuring in our lives. At the moment this Bird flu thing that I'm sure you're all aware of isn't too much of a threat. At the moment it's mainly killing birds and only a few people. The reason is because it is very bad at infecting humans. If evolution doesn't exist then the virus will remain like this and it isn't a problem.
Unfortunately during the astronomical number of reproductions that this virus goes through, sometimes it won't work exactly correctly and there will be a defect in one of the virusus. Most of these defects will make a virus that can no longer function. It dies and so does that mutation. The problem being that one of these random mutations may lead to it being better at infecting humans and we start to die.
With larger lifeforms like animals, plants, insects there are far fewer of them and they reproduce much slower, hence the number of mutations per unit of time is much smaller and the chances of observing evolution in them vastly smaller. People therefore have to look at fossils to see the slow evolution of these creatures.
(EDIT) Also, the Creationist arguement goes like this. Life is far too complex to have been created by chance, hence there must have been an intelligent designer (GOD).
Now lets take this to the next step. A creator with the ability to create this life must be more complex that the life we know on Earth, hence it becomes less likely that the creator could have come into existance by anything other than an even more complex creator using the same reasoning as the first step, who requires a more complex creator, who requires... etc.
Example 1.
All quarks, photons, neutrinos etc.etc. are actually being pushed around by a huge number of incredibly tiny elves that are undetectable in any way except for their ability to push fundamental particles around.
Prove this to be wrong.
stupid example 2.
We actually live in the matrix.
You cannot prove this to be wrong, hence it must be right? No. That would be a stupid thing to think.
The point being that you should only believe things that can be proved as there are an infinite number of things that could exist but cannot be proved to not exist.
On the topic of evolution, here's a simple, real life example of evolution occuring in our lives. At the moment this Bird flu thing that I'm sure you're all aware of isn't too much of a threat. At the moment it's mainly killing birds and only a few people. The reason is because it is very bad at infecting humans. If evolution doesn't exist then the virus will remain like this and it isn't a problem.
Unfortunately during the astronomical number of reproductions that this virus goes through, sometimes it won't work exactly correctly and there will be a defect in one of the virusus. Most of these defects will make a virus that can no longer function. It dies and so does that mutation. The problem being that one of these random mutations may lead to it being better at infecting humans and we start to die.
With larger lifeforms like animals, plants, insects there are far fewer of them and they reproduce much slower, hence the number of mutations per unit of time is much smaller and the chances of observing evolution in them vastly smaller. People therefore have to look at fossils to see the slow evolution of these creatures.
(EDIT) Also, the Creationist arguement goes like this. Life is far too complex to have been created by chance, hence there must have been an intelligent designer (GOD).
Now lets take this to the next step. A creator with the ability to create this life must be more complex that the life we know on Earth, hence it becomes less likely that the creator could have come into existance by anything other than an even more complex creator using the same reasoning as the first step, who requires a more complex creator, who requires... etc.
Last edited by .:XDR:.PureFodder (2006-07-12 03:48:36)