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- Tue Mar 17, 2009 1:52 pm
- Forum: Questions for Christians
- Topic: ERV's in Chimps and Humans
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1943
ERV's in Chimps and Humans
Many Endogenous Retroviruses (ERV) are found in both humans and chimp's DNA, so often that if it were by chance, it would be a probability of about 10^120. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUxLR9hdorI&feature=related Evolutionists I've come across use this as substantial ammo for debate, and initi...
- Sun Mar 08, 2009 9:00 pm
- Forum: Questions for Christians
- Topic: Two questions
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3027
Re: Two questions
If God is omniscient, which he is, why must he be concerned with us at all? He already knows the outcome of our existence even before he made us, since everything is predictable when you have absolute knowledge. I don't see how God's omniscience necessitates a lack of concern for us. It could be sp...
- Sat Mar 07, 2009 4:07 pm
- Forum: Questions for Christians
- Topic: Two questions
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3027
Two questions
If God is omniscient, which he is, why must he be concerned with us at all? He already knows the outcome of our existence even before he made us, since everything is predictable when you have absolute knowledge. Relating to cosmology and the argument that our universe is absurdly finely tuned to an ...
- Fri Feb 20, 2009 10:13 pm
- Forum: God and Science
- Topic: Free Will
- Replies: 20
- Views: 5121
Re: Free Will
Is the carmaker the cause of the accident? But a car isn't even functional by itself. It requires a human operator to do anything. Sometimes the makers are responsible for accidents though (directly or indirectly), faulty breaks for example. .You have to prove that all things that the self causes a...
- Thu Feb 19, 2009 5:18 pm
- Forum: God and Science
- Topic: Free Will
- Replies: 20
- Views: 5121
Re: Free Will
That part of my nature has the intrinsic ability, endowed to it by God, to be self-motivating . I am the cause of my own actions and no other. Now, there's the thing. If it's your soul that ultimately effects/determines your actions, and god makes the soul, then how can you still say you are a caus...
- Tue Feb 17, 2009 10:55 pm
- Forum: God and Science
- Topic: Free Will
- Replies: 20
- Views: 5121
Re: Free Will
If you take a physicalist/mechanistic view on human behavior (i.e., Skinner), then you would be absolutely right. But in such a view, free will doesn't actually exist. It's just a term we've made up. We don't have free will any more than a chess program has free will. It will always, always, always...
- Tue Feb 17, 2009 6:57 pm
- Forum: God and Science
- Topic: Free Will
- Replies: 20
- Views: 5121
Re: Free Will
I skimmed over it, strong debate! I'm getting at something a little different here, though: I question the basis of creating a free will being. Anything or anyone something creates will always be limited by it's structure, structure of it's mind in particular. It will respond in certain ways to cert...
- Mon Feb 16, 2009 10:55 pm
- Forum: God and Science
- Topic: Free Will
- Replies: 20
- Views: 5121
Free Will
Do we have free will? An analogy was made in a page about coin flipping. I say, even then something would have made you flip the coin, no? The way the coin lands only seems random to us, because we don't have absolute knowledge like god does. We don't have perfect body control/eye coordination so yo...
- Thu Dec 11, 2008 3:57 pm
- Forum: Creation Talk
- Topic: Fossil Record- Interesting points
- Replies: 22
- Views: 7962
Re: Fossil Record- Interesting points
Neither of you addressed this: Viruses inserted themselves in DNA on Earth, even if viruses were created by god too. There must have not been any viruses in 'god-given' DNA originally. That just doesn't make sense. If god wanted to help his creations against certain diseases which he himself created...
- Wed Dec 10, 2008 9:55 pm
- Forum: Creation Talk
- Topic: Fossil Record- Interesting points
- Replies: 22
- Views: 7962
Re: Fossil Record- Interesting points
Why would an all-powerful and all-knowing god need some "templates"? I thought only beings who are very limited in their intelligence and memory capacity need templates. Viruses inserted themselves in DNA on Earth, even if viruses were created by god too. There must have not been any virus...
- Wed Dec 10, 2008 6:23 pm
- Forum: Creation Talk
- Topic: Fossil Record- Interesting points
- Replies: 22
- Views: 7962
Re: Fossil Record- Interesting points
Retroviral sequences in human DNA thought to represent leftover genes from infection of retroviruses... studies have demonstrated that such sequences actually appear to block the infection of human cells with certain retroviruses. So such sequences seem to posses a vital function. It still doesn't ...
- Tue Dec 09, 2008 11:10 pm
- Forum: Creation Talk
- Topic: Fossil Record- Interesting points
- Replies: 22
- Views: 7962
Re: Fossil Record- Interesting points
Obviously Earth's environment changed over time. Early on, it could not have sustained complex life, whereas later on it could. So all a simple to complex observation in the fossil records says is that Earth's environment was right for certain forms of life at certain times. It says nothing more. D...
- Tue Dec 09, 2008 6:16 pm
- Forum: Creation Talk
- Topic: Fossil Record- Interesting points
- Replies: 22
- Views: 7962
Fossil Record- Interesting points
It's clear fossils are buried uniformly, with simplest near the bottom and more complex occurring near the top layers. I believe there is plethora of evidence of evolution even with less than perfect fossil record. Look at our DNA - ours and chimpanzee's is 4 chromosomes apart. Several retroviruses ...