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Cold Foreign Object 
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Message 125 of 256 (458739)
03-01-2008 8:22 PM
Reply to: Message 116 by Vacate
03-01-2008 6:16 PM


Re: Does Established Evidence Exist?
Since Buzsaw didn't reference Darwin it would be nice if you did provide the reference - then it would not longer be an assertion.
I delayed to expose the fact that the Darwinists here do not even know what their Patriarch has said.
Without any further ado:
"The belief in God has often been advanced as not only the greatest, but the most complete of all the distinctions between man and the lower animals. It is however impossible, as we have seen, to maintain that this belief is innate or instinctive in man. On the other hand a belief in all-pervading spiritual agencies seems to be universal; and apparently follows from a considerable advance in the reasoning powers of man, and from a still greater advance in his faculties of imagination, curiosity and wonder. I am aware that the assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of many cruel and malignant spirits, possessing only a little more power than man; for the belief in them is far more general than of a beneficent Deity."
--Charles Darwin Descent of Man (1871:394-95 Vol.2, 1st edition; emphasis added).
But be advised that I am not speaking for Buzsaw. There are other sources for this claim too, including Theist sources, of course. But since an Atheist source (= Darwin) has admitted it is pointless to post a Theist source.
Ray

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Message 126 of 256 (458745)
03-01-2008 8:42 PM
Reply to: Message 122 by Granny Magda
03-01-2008 7:07 PM


Re: The OP was refuted
As I said before, Dennett is not using the word design in the way that you do. He is using it as a kind of shorthand, or poetic way of saying "form that evolved through random mutation under natural selection".
I own a copy of the book. Dennett does not qualify the word design with any negating adjectives. He admits design to exist in the context that it was produced by natural selection.
I already said this in Message 68 which you are supposing to not exist:
Ray in message 68 writes:
Dennett, of course, is writing in the context that said designs were produced by the non-intelligence of natural selection. But the point and fact of the matter is that he, unlike most evolutionists, admits design to exist in nature.
Based on the fact of the observation of design anyone can deduce that the same indicates the work of an invisible Designer. The OP is refuted.
You are misquoting him. I suspect that you are doing so deliberately, with no regard for the dishonesty of your actions.
I did no such thing, you are lying to my face. I am through here.
Ray

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Message 128 of 256 (458747)
03-01-2008 8:52 PM
Reply to: Message 124 by Straggler
03-01-2008 7:29 PM


Re: The OP was refuted
Lets say that I, as an atheist, consider the apparent design of nature as we know it to be the work of an advanced alien civilisation that inhabits a different dimensional parallel universe.
How does the appearance of design in our universe support the idea God any more than it does my alien hypothesis?
In the absence of religious texts, even under the misapprehension that the appearance of design = actual conscious design, there is no reson to think that design supports any sort of supernatural answer so this is an inadequate answer to Percy's question.
Geo: Percy asked if one could conclude for the existence of a God based only on visible reality.
The answer is yes; based on the observation of design, which logically corresponds to invisible Designer.
We understand why Atheists must deny this logic.
But Percy also argued that the existence of negatives, like disease and disasters, evidence the non-existence of a God. When the first claim above is admitted to have been refuted we can move on to Percy's other claim.
Ray

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Message 129 of 256 (458748)
03-01-2008 8:54 PM
Reply to: Message 127 by DrJones*
03-01-2008 8:47 PM


Re: Does Established Evidence Exist?
So Darwin didn't do any sort of study on various cultures and their religions/superstitions or lack thereof. He did not establish that all cultures developed religions/superstitions as a fact. It looks like you refuted your previous claim.
Nonsensical evo babbling.
Ray

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Message 217 of 256 (459215)
03-04-2008 7:33 PM
Reply to: Message 132 by Blue Jay
03-01-2008 9:56 PM


The OP was and is refuted
So, you would approach this problem by looking for design in the universe, Ray? If you see design, to you it’s evidence for a Creator?
Duh.
Can you follow the following "complex" logic?
Observation of organized complexity and design corresponds to the work of invisible Designer or Creator.
Actually, I think we already know that.
Well I am glad you agree. But I do realize that you assign a different causation to explain the observation of design. BUT THE POINT REMAINS - WE AGREE THAT THERE EXISTS AN OBSERVATION OF DESIGN SEEN IN NATURE.
Logically, the observation indicates Designer. Lets see how you explain design:
1. Aliens
In preface you said:
these have credible reasons behind them
You are a flaming kook also known as a evolutionist.
I will now take a break and commence rolling on the floor in laughter.
This is why we know evolution is Atheist fraud: they would rather postulate aliens (intelligence) to explain design rather than the intelligence of a Designer and the hundreds of millions of persons who testify to His existence.
Your next explanation of design:
2. Evolution
You mean a process that all scholars say exhibits no signs of intelligence produced design, isn't Designer a more logical and superior explanation? Of course my question is rhetorical.
You believe Dennett’s quote about “design” supports you and refutes the other hypotheses.
Dennett's quote did not place quote marks around the word design, you are misrepresenting. Dennett admits design to exist in the context that it was produced by Darwin's Dangerous Idea or natural selection. The whole POINT of me quoting Dennett was to establish that some scholars admit to the existence of design in nature with no negating adjectives or qualifiers. The whole POINT of making this point was to say that Creationism has a superior explanation for design (= Designer) rather than a process that exhibits no intelligence. I have been deliberately misrepresented on these simple points of fact and logic because you evolutionists cannot refute what was actually said and argued.
Funny how no Admin has appeared to verify these misrepresentations like they do against Randman over absolutely nothing in comparison.
Bluejay quoting Percy writes:
How would we know just by examining the world around us that there is a God?
But the even larger point remains: design exists in nature and based on this observation anyone has the logical right to conclude that the same was produced by invisible Designer. You can illogically assert that it was produced by aliens or non-intelligence if you want to.
The OP is refuted.
Ray

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Cold Foreign Object 
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Message 224 of 256 (459394)
03-06-2008 7:24 PM
Reply to: Message 221 by Rob
03-05-2008 12:37 AM


Re: Rob Suspended for 24 Hours
Blinded by ambition I was...
You are just a pathetic evolutionist ass kisser too ignorant to see that Percy is patronizing you. You have been outsmarted and put on a leash and have sacrificed any intelligent arguments that you might make to now be inferior, subject to evolutionist review and approval.
You ought to care about what other Designists think of you rather than fruit loops who deny that design implies Designer.
Ray
Edited by Cold Foreign Object, : No reason given.
Edited by Cold Foreign Object, : spelling mistakes caused by anger accounts for both edits.

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