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And the Big Bang may have taken place in its own reality that we are unaware of. Special pleading.
So in lieu of combining pieces of established knowledge, you are inventing a being which ignores everything we know and then admitting that nobody knows how it works. This is absurd.
Appeal to consequences. The possible fallout of acceptance of evolution has zero bearing on whether or not it is true.
I must also note that the most popular religions paint people as mere pawns created for the entertainment of some deity and describe life as a short and fairly pointless waiting room before we get to the good stuff. Evolution is only depressing if you cannot figure out what to do with your life without someone telling you, which is kinda pathetic.
Irrelevant. Everything in the world relies on chance. Particles move about at random, yet reactions always work out the same way and water still evaporates at room temperature.
This argument is akin to saying that you will never get a 6 if you keep rolling a die because it relies on random chance.
Convenient! My work is done for me.
I am not convinced you understand how science works. Evolution makes predictions, and we have found evidence that confirms these predictions. The same applies to every new proposal and every existing theory.
Creationism, on the other hand, predicts and implies nothing. It cannot be tested at all.
Why are you demanding absolute proof if, by your own admission, it is impossible to find?
We cannot even absolutely prove that gravity works how we think it does. All we can do is notice that it usually works a certain way, make predictions ("if I let go of this ball, it will fall to the ground"), and test them. Gravity has never predicted anything that has proven false, so we accept it. If we ever found an exception, we would have to rethink our understanding of gravity.
No, but it certainly makes it likely, and useful for understanding the world if nothing else.
I see no reason to think anything is beyond human understanding. This is a cop-out and more special pleading.
What makes you think I believe "this" is all that exists? I don't discredit the possibility of other universes or orthogonal dimensions; it would be rather arrogant of me to assume that our universe is unique.
Where is the design? There are plenty of odd bits and pieces left in all sorts of creatures that either serve little purpose or could have been designed far better -- and yet they weren't, even by a being supposedly far smarter than us.
We see a lot of organisms that seem to fit their environments because organisms that don't fit well DIE.
Except that a creator brings far more questions into this than it answers.
For one, would a creator not appear designed? If it is capable of designing everything on its own, clearly it is more complex and powerful than everything; why is it exempt from needing its own creator? This is more special pleading.
There are people who believe this, but it still raises the same questions about God. In fact, it turns him into the god of the gaps.
All I do is consider what I think and why.
Emphasis mine.
Perhaps you should learn to better express yourself, rather than complaining that we don't understand you.
So what would you say if governments allowed slavery? Would that be okay, because they're not condoning it?
Funny. You just said it's Adam's and Eve's faults. What sort of benevolent creator punishes 10+ billion people for the actions of two?
Where did the other reality come from?
Organisms do not evolve. Populations evolve.
No, it's not. Detrimental mutations generally kill the organism; beneficial ones naturally spread. It doesn't matter if there are a hundred million bad mutations and just one good one; the good one is still far better at replicating than all the bad ones combined. This is the very basis upon which evolution works.
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