Re: Atheist Wakes Up In Morgue - After Meeting God
Alan <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | alt.atheism,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh |
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| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 2026-08-23 16:35, Skeeter wrote: > In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] says... >> >> On 2026-08-23 08:23, Skeeter wrote: >>> In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] says... >>>> >>>> On 2026-08-22 14:20, Skeeter wrote: >>>>> In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] says... >>>>>> >>>>>> On 2026-08-22 06:41, Andrew wrote: >>>>>>> "Samuel Spade" wrote in message >>>>>>> news:[email protected]... >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> As time goes on genomes are functionally refined, not degraded. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> That is true,in your fantasy. But in the real world mutations are >>>>>>> continuously going on >>>>>>> in the genome also . >>>>>> >>>>>> And? >>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Mutations are word-processing errors in the cell's instruction manual. >>>>>>> They systematically destroy genetic information >>>>>> >>>>>> Nope. That's completely false. >>>>> >>>>> Prove it. >>>> >>>> Isn't your rule that you have to prove me wrong? >>> >>> Just admit you can't. >> >> Mutations can produced both positive and negative results. >> >> Just like a typo on a cheque can result in someone either getting less >> OR more than was intended. >> >>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Selection may slow mutational degeneration, but not stop it. >>>>>>> So even with selection, evolution is going the wrong way. It is going >>>>>>> toward *extinction,* rather than towards a higher taxonomic level. >>>>>>> Thus telling us that the word devolution better defines what is going >>>>>>> on, rather than evolution. >>>>>>> I hope this helps. >>>>>> Mutations can be detrimental OR beneficial. >>>>>> >>>>>> The ones that are detrimental result in that organism competing less >>>>>> successfully, while the ones that are beneficial result in an organism >>>>>> that is MORE successful. >>>>> >>>>> Successful at what? Cancer is a mutation. >>>> That's an unsuccessful mutation. >>> >>> So where did the Cancer come from? >> A mutation. An error in a cell which removed the restraints on its rate >> of replication. And "cancer" doesn't get a capital letter. > > Where did that cell come from? > You're trying to construct a long drawn-out straw man. The fact that the ultimate answer to where everything comes from is "I don't know" doesn't make a god any more likely an explanation, nor does it remove the logical extension that if a god is the cause, you still need to ask where IT came from.