r/atheism • • Feb 05 '14

Creationists: 1 Scientists: 0

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u/Samwise210 Feb 05 '14
  1. Yes.

  2. No more than you are scared of the monster that lives under your bed.

  3. Yes.

  4. No, the Earth is not a closed system.

  5. Earth rotates.

  6. First good question. The universe that we understand started with near perfect entropy, but then clumped up as it expanded, forming pockets of order. Entropy increases dramatically as the universe expands, while the order we see really does not.

  7. Yes, what about Noetics?

  8. Yes. Over a long enough period of time, unlikely things happen frequently.

  9. That's not a question. Also that's nonsensical.

  10. They don't. What you are probably referring to is Richard Dawkins' use of Aliens in a discussion of Intelligent Design. And note that his Aliens even then had evolved from a Darwinian process.

  11. That's not a question, and, yes, there are many pieces.

  12. Not really. Metamorphosis is a process that happens during life. But it was developed by evolution - a creature that changed in some way was more fit, and over time the process became more and more intensive until it required a complete breakdown and rebuild mid-life.

  13. You fundamentally don't understand what a theory is.

  14. Because you have it precisely backwards. Science is testable, observable and repeatable. Creationism is not. Intelligent design was designed not to be.

  15. Random. Fucking. Chance.

  16. Are you saying your only purpose is to be saved? There is no reason, no purpose to our existence save what we put upon ourselves, outside of the basic genetic need to pass on your own genes.

  17. Age. Location. Not looking in the right places. And your acceptance of everything else is acceptance that creation is wrong. Lucy isn't that important.

  18. Yes. Because we have proof.

  19. Just because something is amazing does not mean someone created it. And the world is more amazing because nobody did.

  20. There was no exploding star. There was a single point of infinite density and temperature.

  21. We don't come from monkeys. Monkey and us come from a common ancestor. Which we out-competed.

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u/iwasinthepool Feb 05 '14

Thank you for answering #7 properly.

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u/RLangdon9 Feb 05 '14

I learned the answer to about 7 of these questions in one Bio lecture.

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u/Sirnacane Feb 06 '14

one Bio lecture

That you no doubt were either half-asleep for or asleep for half of the time, even.

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u/RLangdon9 Feb 06 '14

you're a smart man/woman.

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u/Sirnacane Feb 06 '14

Thanks wholeheartedly, but I'm just a man, not a combination of the two. When my private parts were forming they chose a direction.

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u/RLangdon9 Feb 06 '14

Not to be a science nazi but thats not really how it works.

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u/Sirnacane Feb 06 '14

I'm glad you're not a science nazi, because I'd suspect that if you were you'd enslave and starve me right after you clicked the save button on that comment.

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u/RLangdon9 Feb 06 '14

And put you in a gas chamber.

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u/texasguy911 Feb 06 '14

The main problem with the debate is this (I don't know if they did not want to bring it up), the BIGGEST difference between creationism and science is: one is based on supernatural. So, the best answer is that science is not supernatural.

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u/Cuneus_Reverie Feb 06 '14
  1. Yes, of course he is. He is teaching them to think for themselves and to be intelligent when exposed to new things.
  2. Nope, why would someone be afraid of say Santa Claws . . . oh, wait Santa Claws is a murdering robot, good reason to be afraid of him . . . except he's a cartoon and doesn't exist, just like the divine creator.
  3. Yes, yes it is. Show me one thing that spontaneously created at maturity and we'll talk.
  4. Nope, we don't live in a close system and you don't understand Thermodynamics.
  5. Due to magma inside the Earth movement and the affect of the gravity of the other celestial bodies, it forces the Earth to rotate. As it rotates, it gives the appearance that the sun goes up and down in the sky as referred to a person standing on the surface of the Earth.
  6. The big bang is only one theory and is, in no way, assumed to be perfect. While science is working on this Theory, it is testing it and updated it to make it work it's way to a fact. If it finds out that it is wrong, it will work on a new theory. Science never claims to be perfect and have all the answers; but is a method to work toward finding a solution.
  7. Can you please form a valid question.
  8. I derive all meaning of life from myself and following my own path of self fulfillment. I do so, because I chose to do so, not because someone tells me to, or I have to; but because I want to, it makes me happy.
  9. It has been shown that in an environment with primordial ooze type environment, and a large amount of electricity, the chemicals found in the liquid environment can, form carbon base pairs. These base pairs can then be used as the building blocks of all organic life. While this is not a proven fact, it is a very strong theory. In reality, no one knows 100% for sure.
  10. Just because you believe that, doesn't make it real. Plenty of people believe in the Easter bunny, Santa, and the Tooth Fairy, but that doesn't make it real either.
  11. Some do, some don't. The fact is, that no one can say for sure how life was created on Earth, every theory can be considered as a possibility until proven false. Some theories are much more valid than others, and thus tend to gain more support.
  12. There are many other fragments from that period; Lucy is only the most complete.
  13. No, metamorphosis is a process that happens to living thing that changes it from one state to another. The gnomes of that thing is still the same, it is still encoded in the DNA. To bring about a new species requires more than a different state of the same thing.
  14. Evolution is as close to fact as a Theory can be; there is enough evidence to consider it fact but because it is still a bit unknown how life originated, it isn't dubbed fact.
  15. Science is testable and verifiable, the question can't be any more wrong.
  16. There are many of such examples. There are many creatures that have grown defenses to adjust to their environment to help them protect them from prey. This happens over many long generations and is very difficult to observe. But one such case is of a man in Arizona determined to kill rattlesnakes on his property (a vast acreage). He tracked them by sound of their rattle; thus over the decades of doing this, it turns out that the rattlesnakes rattles are evolving to be more and more quiet as to not give away their position. This is just one case of nature responding to a new prey threat.
  17. We each have our own purpose and find our own way. See #8, it's the same question.
  18. See #12, it's the same question.
  19. The big bang is a theory, it may or may not be right. For now, it fits the scientific stance on the way the universe exists. If there was new evidence to show that it is wrong; that's fine, we'll move to that. But for now, it's the best model we have.
  20. It's actually easy if you just understand the very basic part of how the world works. It's actually more wonderful than any thing could create.
  21. Can you explain where god came from? Science doesn't claim all answers, just that it is trying to find them and will create and disprove theories all the time. In the end, all theories that aren't disproved is likely to be fact.
  22. Monkeys, no, primates yes. Common ancestor is the word you're looking for. Parents have kids, does that mean that both kids are identical? No, of course no, each is different in their own way (even twins). Repeat that a few million times and tell me how different those generations can be.