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  1. Butterfree

    Does a God of ANY KIND exist?

    Apologies for taking a while to get back to this! I'm afraid I still don't think you understood what I meant about incremental processes. If the cat just types whatever, of course we're not going to get a coherent paragraph by accident - but if the cat types a random letter, and if it's not...
  2. Butterfree

    Does a God of ANY KIND exist?

    You completely missed what I was getting at with the monkeys on typewriters analogy. I was trying to illustrate a point about incrementalness. If the monkey types tens of thousands of words by banging on the keyboard and we then check if the result is a Shakespeare play, of course it won't be...
  3. Butterfree

    Does a God of ANY KIND exist?

    Thanks for contributing a thoughtful response, albeit to an extremely dead old thread! The first cause argument is of course in no way new. The thing about it as an argument for God is that most things are caused by simple physical processes and interactions, not by any kind of conscious agent...
  4. Butterfree

    Does a God of ANY KIND exist?

    Incorrect. By your definition, nobody here is an atheist, and very few people in the world; the very idea of actively believing that God does not exist is contradictory to the reasons that most people are atheists, in fact. Richard Dawkins isn't even an atheist by your definition. Nobody...
  5. Butterfree

    Does a God of ANY KIND exist?

    See, now your interpretation of God is really being a dick. "You think you don't need me? Huh? Well, let's see you cope with THIS! You'll come crawling back to me soon enough, begging me for forgiveness! Mwahahaha!" But that's irrelevant. The point is that you made all of this up; this is not...
  6. Butterfree

    Does a God of ANY KIND exist?

    How about you read my post before restating what I already countered in it, Jason-Kun? And your personal beliefs have no place in a debate. You can only debate if you've got something intelligent to back up what you say. There is abundant evidence for evolution everywhere; deciding "It makes...
  7. Butterfree

    Does a God of ANY KIND exist?

    Just to add on the subject of how evolution "at the class/phylum/kingdom level" can happen: see, at the time it happens, it isn't at a special "level" that constitutes any sort of major leap. When plants first diverged from other organisms, for instance, they were identical except that the...
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