Richard Dawkins, The Improbability of God (atheism, quote, heaven, verse)
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He makes the point that you never find a fossil of a mammal in a rock stratum you wouldn't expect. And that 3,000 million years of geologic time is plenty of time to have evolved something complicated like an eye organ.
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For me, the important point is that, even if the physicist needs to postulate an irreducible minimum that had to be present in the beginning, in order for the universe to get started, that irreducible minimum is certainly extremely simple. By definition, explanations that build on simple premises are more plausible and more satisfying than explanations that have to postulate complex and statistically improbable beginnings. And you can't get much more complex than an Almighty God!
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3,ooo million years of geologic time isn't a drop in the ocean of eternity. Imagine Mozart in Heaven
having that much time to compose a mass for a Heavenly Choir of Angels. Or singing with them.
Now, that would rock.
He makes the point that you never find a fossil of a mammal in a rock stratum you wouldn't expect. And that 3,000 million years of geologic time is plenty of time to have evolved something complicated like an eye organ.
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For me, the important point is that, even if the physicist needs to postulate an irreducible minimum that had to be present in the beginning, in order for the universe to get started, that irreducible minimum is certainly extremely simple. By definition, explanations that build on simple premises are more plausible and more satisfying than explanations that have to postulate complex and statistically improbable beginnings. And you can't get much more complex than an Almighty God!
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It's also interesting the huge amount of missing fossils that we should be finding of transitionary fossils.
Or the cambrian explosion. That's an interesting one. Out of nowhere comes all kinds of species...where are the fossils leading up to it?
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It's also interesting the huge amount of missing fossils that we should be finding of transitionary fossils.
Or the cambrian explosion. That's an interesting one. Out of nowhere comes all kinds of species...where are the fossils leading up to it?
We have found transitionary fossils....dinosaurs with feathers (they became birds), "whales" that once lived on land and had legs, as well as fish that were fossilized showing leg nubs. But...since you are unable to accept anything but fundamentalism, I suppose I should give up.
It's also interesting the huge amount of missing fossils that we should be finding of transitionary fossils.
Or the cambrian explosion. That's an interesting one. Out of nowhere comes all kinds of species...where are the fossils leading up to it?
You need to update your knowledge base, kdbrich. There are loads of examples of transitionary fossils. Move on up into the 21st century with the rest of us, would ya?
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We have found transitionary fossils....dinosaurs with feathers (they became birds), "whales" that once lived on land and had legs, as well as fish that were fossilized showing leg nubs. But...since you are unable to accept anything but fundamentalism, I suppose I should give up.
Got proof of those dinos with feathers?
or the "whales" that had legs? How about ones that had half legs?
As the saying goes, whenever a new transitional fossil is discovered, the creationist rejoice because there is now two gaps instead of one.
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