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Author Topic:   Top Ten Signs You're a Foolish Atheist
Drosophilla
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Message 114 of 365 (651488)
02-07-2012 5:38 PM
Reply to: Message 111 by Pollux
02-07-2012 5:10 PM


Re: Chuck's item 5
Fred Hoyle calculated the chance of spontaneously assembling 2000 proteins, of 200 amino acids each, at 1 in 10 to power of 40,000.
As Hoyle was a physicist and astronomer rather than a biochemist, his assertions on protein assembly could be called into question. He certainly didn't understand the combined working tenets of random mutation acted upon by non-random natural selection......otherwise he wouldn't have come up with your statement (which you don't source) nor his famous 'Hoyle's Fallacy (AKA 'Junkyard tornado' - Link to Wiki article ) which only goes to illustrate that Hoyle hadn't got a handle on the ToE.
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Drosophilla
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Message 117 of 365 (651495)
02-07-2012 5:56 PM
Reply to: Message 105 by dwise1
02-07-2012 3:00 AM


Re: The debate
Hi Dwise1
I love your amazingly detailed descriptions of the creationist position in the 80's and beyond. The conversion stories are moving - and also sad - all that wasted energy that could have gone to better use! And who knows the personal angst so many must have gone through on finding their creationist masters had lied to them - all so the great money machine could continue!
The con runs so deep - from the working class people conned by the shiny-suited televangelists, to those deluded holders of a 'diploma-mill' degree, who doubtless have thought they have worked hard and deserved their accreditation.
I don't know about 'foolish atheists' - but 'foolish creationists' seem ten a penny (as we say in Yorkshire, England)!

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