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Blue Jay Member (Idle past 2728 days) Posts: 2843 From: You couldn't pronounce it with your mouthparts Joined: |
Hi, AOkid.
I was afraid you’d left us.
AlphaOmegakid writes: Instead, you claim that I am arguing that abiogenesis is impossible. Yet you can't provide a quote of me saying that. Instead you imagine my argument. That's dishonest and that is fallacious. What are you arguing, then? Everytime we argue for Abiogenesis, you point out that it isn’t supported by any evidence and contradicts an existing law, and that it shouldn’t be taught. If you don’t believe that Abiogenesis is rendered impossible by Biogenesis, I don’t see what argument you could possibly be making. Also, you’re very married to semantics in this argument: everything is about exact wording, providing quotes, etc. Everybody else in this debate sees that, in order for your argument to carry any weight, Abiogenesis indeed must be impossible, even though you have not directly said this. If Abiogenesis is not impossible, then Biogenesis, as you interpret it, is not a universal law of nature, and there is no reason for us not to teach Abiogenesis. So, unless you’re willing to commit to “Abiogenesis is impossible because of Biogenesis,” you don’t have an argument.
AlphaOmegakid writes: Even if I agreed with the BB theory, it is off topic to this thread about what we should teach regarding LoB and abiogenesis. Well, it isn’t off-topic, because the history of the universe predicted by BB theory is some of the best evidence that supports Abiogenesis. If you wish to claim that life did not come from non-life, you have to disprove BBT. BB theory predicts clearly that, at one point in the universe’s history, there was not the appropriate set of conditions for life to exist. So, if life actually is eternal, it had to have existed “outside” the universe, and/or existed in some form that is completely different from the carbon-and-water form it exists in today. I’m no cosmologist, but I’m reasonably confident that there is no evidence that carbon or water could exist “outside” of our universe, so there is no evidence for your form of Biogenesis applying to a definition of life that includes carbon and water. And, in the absence of direct evidence for either alternative, parsimony swings decidedly in favor of Abiogenesis, making it the more scientific of the two, and thus, the more appropriate subject for science classes. Thus, BBT is not a red herring. You must answer it, or your Law of Biogenesis is in direct violation of the best-supported model of the history of the entire universe, and therefore, should not be taught in science class.
AlphaOmegakid writes: You personally have argued that with panspermia you eventually still have to work your way back to a chemical evolution of life (abiogenesis). That evidently seems rational to you. Well, the question goes like this: where did life come from---molecules or another planet? Another planet. Okay, how did that planet get life? Another planet. Et cetera. Either you keep following life back to another planet, then another planet, then another, etc., or you eventually get to a point where life first began. Seeing how planets did not always exist, you’re eventually going to have to start discussing alternatives to the “from another planet” concept. And, those alternatives can be summarized as “from pre-biotic chemicals” or “from nothing,” because, eventually, you get to a point where pre-biotic chemicals and nothing are your only options for the raw materials of life. Parsimony again favors pre-biotic chemicals. Thus, we teach Abiogenesis instead of Amateriogenesis.
AlphaOmegakid writes: As the scripture represents, life has always existed and been controlled by God. It didn't come into existence in the universe. The universe came into existence via life and energy. This sounds to me like you’re laboring under an entirely different definition of “life” than is commonly accepted by science. Just like the word “species,” science doesn’t really have a perfect definition of “life,” but it should go without saying that, whatever definition is used by science, at least in relation to Abiogenesis/Biogenesis, it involves carbon and water, which can be shown by BBT to have not existed at some point in the history of the universe. Look, I’m not going to tell you that the Scriptures are false, because I believe partly in them myself. But, if you want to believe that life existed where carbon and water did not, you’re still going to have to show how this life transitioned into the proteins-and-lipids medium it now inhabits today, and I don’t see how that transition could be called anything but Abiogenesis from a physical, scientific perspective. Darwin loves you.
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AlphaOmegakid Member (Idle past 2907 days) Posts: 564 From: The city of God Joined: |
Hoot Moon writes: Lord, why did you give us brains and then expect us to use them as door stops? It's real simple Hoot Moon. He gave you the brains and the mind. You see, there are many things that natural science cannot explain. Things that defy our wisdon. We know gravity exists, but we don't know what it is, and we don't know why it is. Why would a mass exert a force on another mass? And where did the mass come from? And of course where did life come from? And where did the mind and consciousness come from. All of these enigmas that have no natural answers. It takes faith to believe in natural solutions for all of these. To trust in a natural solution for all of these is trust in the supernatural. As Author C Clarke points out:
any science beyond current scientific explanation and understanding is considered "Magic", mystical, or supernatural until or unless it can be described by science. Conversely any claimed "science" which has not been proven is by definition supernatural or beyond science supernatural That trust is Pantheistic. Keep it out of the schools.
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Fosdick  Suspended Member (Idle past 5531 days) Posts: 1793 From: Upper Slobovia Joined: |
AOkid writes:
That's OK with me. I'm all right with you saying that God created gravity, for example. True, scientists don't know what it "is." They don't even know what the universe "is." So, let's all say that what it "is" is a creation of God. Gravity came from God, and He proclaimed it to behave thus and so. Great! To trust in a natural solution for all of these is trust in the supernatural. Now, just what do I do with this profound "knowledge"? ”HM If you got some quince, Pussycat, I got a runcible spoon.
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dokukaeru Member (Idle past 4646 days) Posts: 129 From: ohio Joined: |
Again you IGNORE the evidence presented to you then write
In the case of abiogenesis, there is no evidence upon which the hypothesis could be inferred. Now before you prove beyond any reasonable doubt that you really have no idea what you are talking about could you address the evidence presented to you? Please AOKid, no more hand waving.
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dokukaeru Member (Idle past 4646 days) Posts: 129 From: ohio Joined: |
AOKid message 96 writes: I'm not sure what you mean. If you understand viruses and prions they destroy living cells. (their hosts) Viruses actually replicate within the host until the host explodes. I find it interesting that people actually think that these agents of death are actually capable of being life. They destroy life. If you have a "virus world" that somehow exists. And the you have a cell that somehow evolves from that. What chance does one cell have in an environment of a multitude of viruses? The logic here is bizarre to me. That cell would be attacked by the non evolved viruses in an instant. Then bye bye cell. Now I understand that this is argumentm ad ignoratium. However, the reasoning process is still bizarre to me This is another example of your lack of understanding. Viruses are not only agents of death. Have you ever heard of a bacteriophage?
Wikipedia writes:
ReplicationBacteriophages may have a lytic cycle or a lysogenic cycle, but a few viruses are capable of carrying out both. With lytic phages such as the T4 phage, bacterial cells are broken open (lysed) and destroyed after immediate replication of the virion. As soon as the cell is destroyed, the new bacteriophages viruses can find new hosts. Lytic phages are the kind suitable for phage therapy. In contrast, the lysogenic cycle does not result in immediate lysing of the host cell. Those phages able to undergo lysogeny are known as temperate phages. Their viral genome will integrate with host DNA and replicate along with it fairly harmlessly, or may even become established as a plasmid The virus remains dormant until host conditions deteriorate, perhaps due to depletion of nutrients, then the endogenous phages (known as prophages) become active. At this point they initiate the reproductive cycle resulting in lysis of the host cell. As the lysogenic cycle allows the host cell to continue to survive and reproduce, the virus is reproduced in all of the cell’s offspring.
Sometimes prophages may provide benefits to the host bacterium while they are dormant by adding new functions to the bacterial genome in a phenomenon called lysogenic conversion A famous example is the conversion of a harmless strain of Vibrio cholerae by a phage into a highly virulent one, which causes cholera. This is why temperate phages are not suitable for phage therapy.
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AlphaOmegakid Member (Idle past 2907 days) Posts: 564 From: The city of God Joined: |
Hoot Moon writes: That's OK with me. I'm all right with you saying that God created gravity, for example. True, scientists don't know what it "is." They don't even know what the universe "is." So, let's all say that what it "is" is a creation of God. Gravity came from God, and He proclaimed it to behave thus and so. Great!Now, just what do I do with this profound "knowledge"? Well that's up to you. Many people believe in a god. They believe in the god that makes the most sense to them relative to what they have been taught and how their logic works. And usually they "do" or behave relative to what type of god they believe. I personally believe in the God of the Bible. Why, because I've studied the Bible, and to me, the claims make logical and natural sense. But that's just me. Many have different opinions. But that's my faith. I don't want it taught in the schools. I do want it taught in the churches. This God has revealed various ways that are right and various ways that are wrong. What I do with that is try and practice the rights and avoid the wrongs. He also has made various promises in the Bible, and I trust Him in those promises. That's what I do. Others do various different things.
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Rahvin Member Posts: 4046 Joined: Member Rating: 8.3 |
quote: Every thing you said in the above paragraph is a strawman. If you want to discuss my arguments, then quote my statements. Stop distorting my statements into your idiotic strawmen arguments. Fine. How about this one?
Well I think the hypothesis that Redi proposed that "all living matter has sprung from pre-existing living matter" is a very well known fact. It can be observed very easily, and it is observed all the time. These facts were considered by the scientific community some years later to have such a universal application that Thomas Huxley declared this theory as an "established law of nature." Huxley's address can be found Here Now scientific laws or laws of nature decribe how nature works. Usually these laws do create boundaries. The law of biogenesis certainly establishes a barrier. However, nothing in science is absolute, so I can agree with you there. You claim directly here that the law of biogenesis creates a boundary that eliminates abiogenesis as a possibility. So how exactly did I create a strawman? The bit about a Creator and God is a simple extrapolation, but feel free to ignore that bit if you'd like - we all know that's what your argument eventually boils down to anyway.
quote: Yes, it is poor science, because the theory has been falsified and there is no observable phenomena to support it, and because the LoB oppopses it. Provide, immediately, the falsification of abiogenesis. Note that falsification cannot involve "we've never seen it," or I can falsify god. Falsification means you must provide positive observations that eliminate abiogenesis as a possibility, or you need to prove a negative. If you cannot do so, concede that abiogenesis is not falsified.
quote: I think this sentence says it all! You are going to ignore all my words, all my quotations, and now you are going to once again construct exactly the same strawman that you did before. Go figure... What claim of yours, or what refutation of mine, did I ignore? Please be specific.
quote: That's not just a claim, that's the reality of science. But at least you got this part right. And yet you still have it wrong. As has been explained to you, a few times even by actual biologists, the Law of Biogenesis has nothing to do with the origin of life. It refers to observations regarding extant life, like maggots and bacteria. Fully-formed modern organsims do not spring from the ether, but rather come from pre-existing life. This has nothing to do with where life itself comes from, and in no way can a lack of observation prove that something is impossible. That would be proving a negative.
quote: The LoB applies to all life. It is that simple. I don't know what "modern fully formed" life is. Is there such a thing as "non-fully formed" life? You see, this is why this crap should not be taught, because you believe there is such a thing. The Cell theory states that all living things are made up of cells. It also states that the cell is the fundamental unit of structure and function in living things. No matter what belief or faith you have in these pre-biotic mythological beings, abiogenesis has to either totally change the current definition of life, or it has to start with something and end with a cell. At that moment the cell will be fully formed. And unfortunately for you, it will also be modern. So now you've shifted the goalposts from "life" to "cellular life?" How convenient. I'm sure that's what you'll say was your definition of life all along, but it's not a reasonable definition of life at all. Obviously, the first cell could not possibly have originated from a pre-existing cell, unless you believe life has always existed, and we know it has not. It also excludes viruses which have many of the properties of living things, and it excludes the possibility of non-cellular life that may or may not exist elsewhere in the Universe.
The LoB has everthing to do with origins. It is call Biogenesis. Life's beginnings. Life's origins. Saying that it doesn't is just pure ignorance on your part. AOK, you aren't comprehending anything anyone has said to you. The Law of Biogenesis refers to the spontaneous generation of living microbes and other modern forms of life from nonliving matter, like maggots spontaneously forming on a loaf of bread. It has to do with the origins of individual modern lifeforms, not the origin of life itself. The Law of Biogenesis is based on our observation that extant organisms do not spontaneously appear, and our knowledge of how extant organisms reproduce. None of those observations preclude abiogenesis; in fact, the latter seems to support it chemically.
quote: There it is, you constructed exactly the same strawman once again. Maybe that's because Rahvins sit atop scarecrows all day long, and they just feel at home making such fallacious claims. But as long as you continue, I will continue to point it out. No law or theory or anything in science makes anything impossible. Believe abiogenesis if you want, it is possible. It is a falsified theory, and has no natural phenomenon to support such a theory. It is a philosophical faith as Huxley rightly identified. Just don't teach about these mythological pre-life creatures in the schools. That is scientific crap. I am arguing against teaching abiogenesis, because it is just as much a faith as YEC. Keep it out of the schools. The bolded statements directly contradict one another. Your entire argument in this thread has been that the Law of Biogenesis falsifies abiogenesis, and the bolded statements (well, one of them) confirms that you are making this assertion. The other statment of course says that the Law of Biogenesis is not an absolute...meaning it doesn't actually falsify anything, and so your argument defeats itself. Abiogenesis is based on solid research and valid observations, and has nothing whatsoever to do with faith. It is not a complete theory, but it does have supporting evidence. Note that supporting evidence is not the same as proof, which is the way you seem to be using the term.
quote: There isn't any evidence that life has come from non living matter. Except that life didn't always exist, and now it does. That means that somewhere along the way, life came from an environment where life did not exist. Of course, you can get around this by invoking imaginary deities, but you've already established that you don't like it when I extrapolate your real argument from your basic statements, so I won't go there.
This is a faith. In what way? be specific. If there was no life at one point, and there is life today, does that not mean that abiogenesis must have occurred? Is that not suppoting evidence, if not specific proof regarding the exact chain of events that occurred? What alternative explanation do you offer? A deity? You likely already know my responses to that one, so please do think of another.
You use the phrase "spontaneously self-assembling pre-biotic chemicals". Did you realize that every chemical reaction in the world fits that descrition. All chemical reactions are spontaneous at some point. All chemical reactions have some level of self assembly. And all chemical reactions can be considered pre-biotic if they aren't alive. Don't quible over semantics, AOK. Abiogenesis requires specific chemicals to be able to self-assemble in a natural environemnt, without the artificial conditions of a chemistry lab like specific heating and cooling, ctalysts, etc. The right pre-biotic organic compounds must exist naturally. Of course, we observe many of these abiotic organic compounds on Titan today, so we know they can and do exist without life around to make them.
So if you and others are making up chemical pathways from these, then it is clearly imagination of faith without evidence. It sounds like you don't know anything about the chemistry of abiogenesis. The chemical pathways proposed begin with the conditions of teh early Earth as suggested by the observations of geologists and places like Titan. Those observations would be evidence, AOK, not imaginings, unless you'd care to assert that geology and direct observation of Titan are somehow "imaginations of faith?"
You say the results are promising from experiments on abiogenesis. They would be promising only for a person of faith. However if all the scientific evidence was shown, the results would be dead ends. Only the results which suit the faith are shown. This statement is confusing. You seem to be saying that all of the proposed pathways should result in life, and none of them should result in dead ends. That's not consistent with what we expect from abiogenesis - there may be multiple possible pathways, but we certainly don't expect all of them to work. And of course we only concentrate on teh experiments that work. It's not like we'll get very far building on all the dead ends beyond learning why they stopped, will we?
quote: You make an interesting argument about evidence. Unfortunately your argument fails the evidentiary criteria. Fingerprints being linked to suspects are only good evidence, because the phenomena of people leaving fingerprints behind has been observed in the past. There is a chain for this dicovery. With the hypothesis that life came from non-living chemicals we do not have the chain. There is no evidence that suggests that any chemical arrangement of steps for self replicating lipid bilayers or self replicating RNA's or anything else for that matter can form life. The chain only exists in yours and other's imaginations. That's why it's faith. ...except that life did not exist, and now it does, and self-replicating RNA dna lipid bilayers are necessary steps towards abiogenesis. Those would be evidence that it's plausible, not faith. Again, you seem to be using "evidence" to mean "proof," and that;s not the way it works. nobody is saying "we have determined with absolute certainty that abiogenesis happened." We're saying it's the only natural explanation we can think of, and there is a large amount of supporting evidence that suggests it may be a valid explanation.
quote: Sometimes it is hard to translate peoples thoughts from what they write. I guess you do not think that there is a difference from Evo's (evolutionists) and Evolution. Bringing Evolution into this debate is correctly cited as a strawman, however, I see that you are equating EVO's and Evolution, so I will withdraw the strawman claim in this case. Retraction noted.
quote: Of course you are not aware of it, because you evidently flunked logic 101 and you evidently have a reading problem. I didn't say there was a lame argument fallacy. I said your argument was lame. If you knew anything about logic you would know that good arguments present citations of evidentiary support for their claims. A lame argument doesn't provide a citation for anything. That's your arguments in a nutshell. Even if you call me on a fallacy, you need to quote my words and identify the fallacy.(like I do every time with you). Instead you claim I am fallacious by creating several strawman arguments in your words. Get some legs Rahvin! Support your arguments with something other than your words. So, in other words, you're crying becasue I paraphrased you a few times rather than making direct quotes, and therefore my argument is false? If I get your point wrong in paraphrasing, feel free to correct me by clearly restating your position. My arguments are against your position, not against your semantics.
quote: I agree. But you do have to provide the quotes! Like I do with you. Instead, you claim that I am arguing that abiogenesis is impossible. Yet you can't provide a quote of me saying that. Instead you imagine my argument. That's dishonest and that is fallacious. Look above. You did claim that the Law of Biogenesis makes abiogenesis impossible. You contradicted yourself in teh very next sentence, but you did. Here, I'll quote it again:
Now scientific laws or laws of nature decribe how nature works. Usually these laws do create boundaries. The law of biogenesis certainly establishes a barrier. However, nothing in science is absolute, so I can agree with you there. You say that the Law of Biogenesis creates a barrier, referring to abiogenesis. That's a direct claim that the Law of Biogenesis makes abiogenesis impossible. You;ve done this elsewhere as well. Then you immediately backpedal and say that the Law of Biogenesis is not an absolute...meaning no actual barrier is established. That's where you stop even making sense, let alone constructing rational arguments.
quote: No it's not whining, it's showing how little you know about logic. your arguments are unsound because you continually use strawmen, red herrings and ad hominens. And all arguments are lame if you don't provide citations (legs) for your arguments. You might want to learn some of this stuff rather that embarassing yourself. You throw around accusations of fallacies like candy, yet I haven't seen you correctly identify any.
quote: It still is a total red herring. It's an off topic argument. Even if I agreed with the BB theory, it is off topic to this thread about what we should teach regarding LoB and abiogenesis. It's not off-topic. The Big Bang was brought up to briefly illustrate the fact that, until enough time had passed, it was impossible for life to exist anywhere. This is extremely relavent to abiogenesis, as it eliminates the possibility of life having always existed.
Abiogenesis is a theory that must have evidentiary support. The BBT is not evidence in anyway shape or form of abiogenesis. Evidence of abiogenesis is some hint of observation that there really is a chemical pathway. Instead we have an infinite number of steps and nothing suggesting the linkage of all those steps together. Imagination is all you have. That's why when I keep requesting citations for evidence, you say "I don't need to provide evidence." That's because there is none. Abiogenesis does have evidentiary support. It's just not proven, which is what you seem to think "evidentiary support" means. Multiple (NOT infinite) pathways have been proposed, and many of them have in fact been linked together. Combined with the fact that we don't see any barrier preventing abiogenesis from happening given the environment of the early Earth, and teh fact that life did not always exist but now does, and the fact that life as we know it for all objective purposes seems to be nothing more than a complex series of chemical interactions, well...that's not imagination, AOK. That's evidentiary support. It's not proof, but it's enough to say "we think this might be it." This evidence has been provided to you multiple times in the thread. Your insistence that no evidence has been provided is dishonest.
quote: The fact is it is an ad hominem attack. A person's logic comes from their mind. You effectively are saying my mind is idiotic. You are claiming that I have a severe form of retardation. Now if that is not ad hominen, then nothing is. You would be thrown out of logic 101 making such a statement about an opponent. Just because you try and spin this does not take away the personal attack. Christ. You really do need to go back to Logic 101. An ad hominem takes a very specific form: "Because you are an idiot, your argument is false." Note that the claim that the argument is false rests entirely on the accusation of idiocy. There is no support for the idiocy, neither is any actual reason given that would refute the argument. This is an ad hominem. "Your argument is idiotic. Here's how it's wrong..." Note that in this case the argument is refuted not by the accusation of idiocy, but by the explanation of why the argument was invalid. The charge of idiocy is actually a conclusion irrelevant to the actual refutation based on the clumsiness of the opponent's argument. The charge of idiocy is not part of the refutation in any way. This is not an ad hominem, and this is what I did.
Here is evidentiary support for you:
quote: And your own definition proves that Im right. Note the bolded section. Specifically, "of the person making the argument or claim." I said your argument was idiotic. I did not say you are an idiot. My refutation did not consist of a charge that you are an idiot and thus your argument was false. I said your argument was idiotic, and showed why.
Again, the only argument you used was your own made up and debunked strawman argument. So the only idiocy was your own words, because you cannot cite me saying those things. It is a continuance of your fallaciousness. Well, let's go back, shall we? Here is the post in question:
quote: Note that I said that your arguments were idiotic. I claimed that your argumetns are unsound. Most of the rest of my post was spent showing why those arguments are unsound. And stop with the bullshit about strawmans. You've claimed we've been using strawman arguments when we refer to the claims above, but here you are making those precise claims:
quote: God. 1Ti 6:13 ...God, who gives life to all things,... Disassembling this argument shows that you are, in fact, arguing that "Life exists, ergo god." You claim that abiogenesis is refuted by the Law of Biogenesis, and thus the only possible explanation is God. Obviously, that wasn't a strawman, as your own words show that it is an accurate portrayal of your position. I'll once again say that your argumetns are idiotic because you are attempting to show that god is a reasonable explanation by excluding abiogenesis, and your argument against abiogenesis is riddled with holes. Once again, the evidentiary support for the Law of Biogenesis is a lack of observation of abiogenesis, combined with what we know about how extant life forms reproduce. Neither of those bits of evidence refutes abiogenesis - at best, the lack of observation is neutral, and cannot prove the negative that abiogenesis is impossible. It's worse, because we don't even expect abiogenesis to occur in today's environment - it's compeltely different from the environemnt where those chemical pathways are possible. So claiming that abiogenesis is refuted is an idiotic claim.
quote: What has been stated many times and in many ways is that life didn't once exist on this earth and now it does. That's the "life exists" part. The next statements basically say "therfore abiogenesis is the only natural answer." That's the "ergo nature" part. This has been argued by many in this thread. Science concerns itself with natural explanations, because (as has been stated by others) observed natural phenomenon have thus far always had natural explanations. We have a great deal of evidence suggesting that everything in the Universe has a natural explanation - we have no evidence of the supernatural. The supernatural comprises an extraordinary claim - that is, it claims something beyond ordinary observation. Thus it requires extraordinary evidence in order to support it as opposed to a natural explanation. This is why we accept the scientific, natural explanation for lightning, for example, and do not believe Thor or Zeus are actually responsible. If you propose that the supernatural is an explanation for the existence of life, you are making an extraordinary claim and must provide extraordinary evidence to support it. Abiogenesis is a natural explanation for what appears to be a natural phenomenon. There is no evidence of supernatural involvement, and yet there is supporting evidence in favor of abiogenesis. It is not based on faith, but rather on objective evidence and rational conclusions based on teh evidence - the very opposite of faith. Your insistence that abiogenesis is a faith-based approach is nothing more than projection of your own silly faith-based beliefs in god.
You continually make the claim that LoB "specifically deals with fully-formed organisms and has nothing to do with the slow, gradual approach hypothesized by abiogenesis." Now I challenge you to present evidence that there is such a thing as a non-fully formed organism. Abiogenesis must at some point arrive at the cellular level. There is no evidence of life smaller than the cellular level according to the Cell theory. So, I'm waiting. What are these mythological characters you call non-fully formed organisms? This is nothing more than equivolcating language which is just more Rahvinous fallacies. Now you expect me to provide evidence that doesn't exist yet? Abiogenesis is incomplete, AOK, and we've never claimed otherwise. How could I possibly show you an example of a pre-cellular organism if we haven't gotten that far yet? You're expecting abiogenesis to be a complete theory, and it's not - neither have any of us pretended otherwise. It's a good hypothesis based on strong evidence, but if we had gotten so far as to show pre-cellular life, abiogenesis would be virtually proven and we wouldn't be having this discussion. But as an example, viruses are non-ceullular and yet have most of the properties of life. Not quite all, as they require a living host cell to hyjack so that they can reproduce, but they are some excellent evidence that the properties we identify as life are not so much of a black/white, alive/not-alive binary, but are rather part of a spectrum with inert matter on one side and life on the other, and a lot of gray area in between. Abiogenesis research explores the gray area, and so far it looks like that view may be correct, and that given the correct environment and enough time, cellular life can eventually develop from inert matter.
quote: You see Rahvin, you use fallacies so often that you don't even know when you do it. Here you go once again using the strawman fallacy that I said "x is impossible". I haven't. Quote me if you think I have. Sure. Here you go:
quote: That's not just a claim, that's the reality of science. But at least you got this part right. You claim that abiogenesis is refuted by the Law of Biogenesis. You've said this several times in the thread. Do you understand what that means? If law X refutes hypothesis Y, it means that Y should be impossible if law X is at all accurate. You claimed, right here, that the Law of Biogenesis makes abiogenesis impossible so long as the Law of Biogenesis remains accurate. The problem, of course, is that it does not refute abiogenesis. It refutes the idiot Creationist video about life springing from a jar of peanut butter, but that was a ridiculous strawman of abiogenesis. Are you also strawmanning abiogenesis in this way? Because such scenarios are the only ones where the Law of Biogenesis has any relavence. The Law of Biogenesis does not refute abiogenesis because the evidence supporting the Law of Biogenesis consits of a lack of observation, which can never prove something impossible because you cannot prove a negative, and knowledge of modern, extant life forms, which are compeltely different from the first forms of life hypothesized by abiogenesis, existing in a compeltely different environment. So once again, AK, your claim that the LoB refutes abiogenesis is flatly wrong. No strawman, just a very simple refutation based on facts.
quote: Plausibility is in the eyes of the beholder. It is not "theoretically" plausible. But if you want to believe it and fund it and persue it, then go ahead. I have nothing against that. Just don't teach that it is plausible. That's faith. Plausibility in scientific terms is not a subjective assessment, AOK. That abiogenesis is thus far a plausible explanation for the origin of life is an objective conclusion based on the evidence - it has nothing whatsoever to do with faith. You're confusing personal credulity with whether something has been shown to be possible or impossible. So far, abiogenesis has not been refuted, yet has not been completed. Thus it is a possibility, a plausible hypothesis based on the evidence available. That's not faith. Faith is a belief that is not based on evidence...like your faith in god, and your belief that god is the initial lifeform that spawned all other life. And don't try to say I'm strawmanning you again - for fucks sake, I quoted you saying exactly that a few paragraphs above.
quote: And what I have shown previously is that this is the fallacy of argumentum ad ignoratium. With quantum physics at its infancy, you are only allowing your mind to realize the four dimensions of space and time to draw your conclusions. There is evidence that there are many more dimensions in this reality of science. And some of those dimensions may be involved with the origin of life. All of this would still result in a natural solution. Quantum physics is in its infancy? Really? There may be additional dimentions in our Universe, and still more outside of it. But that's irelevant - we're talking about biology here. If you believe other dimensions may have an influence on biology, feel free to present evidence ofsuch an extraordinary claim, because we've never observed life being influenced by any dimension other than the four we know of. I won't hold my breath. It looks like you're the one arguing from ignorance. "We don't know, so anything is possible! Except abiogenesis. Another dimension could be responsible for life!"
quote: It's clear from this statement that you do not understand parsimony. If anything the slow gradual process of the mythological abiogenetic process violates the law of parsimony relative to the creation myth. Ah, so you're a subscriber to the "simplest explanation" meaning "the explanation most attractive to my personal credulity, and easiest for me to understand." Let's take the time to explain parsimony to you then, shall we, AOK? IF 1 + 1 = 2 AND 1 + 1 + x = 2 THEN x = 0 In this case, the x is at best irrelevant to the equasion, and at worst nonexistent. We can write it out as 1 + 1 + x = 2 or even 1 + 1 + x + x + x + x = 2 and so on. But this violates pasrimony - the simplest expression, meaning the expression utilizing the fewest terms, is to be preferred. So we write such an aquasion as 1 + 1 = 2. In the case of the Universe, we have observational evidence for natural processes, life, the three spacial dimensions, etc. We do not have evidence of the supernatural, or god. One equasion could be written this way: IF +
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LinearAq Member (Idle past 4707 days) Posts: 598 From: Pocomoke City, MD Joined: |
AOK writes:
This passage is about not recognizing that God created the universe and turning away from Him to idols. It says nothing about exploring the "how" of creation. Abiogenesis could be how God designed the universe to work. Rom 1:20-25 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.21 For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22 Professing to be wise, they became fools, 23 and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures. 24 Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them. 25 For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. The "lie" in Romans 1:25 could be atheism rather than abiogenesis or evolution. I concurr with this opinion. I thought Paul was stating facts not opinions.
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dokukaeru Member (Idle past 4646 days) Posts: 129 From: ohio Joined: |
AOKid writes: It takes faith to believe in natural solutions for all of these. To trust in a natural solution for all of these is trust in the supernatural. As Author C Clarke points out: any science beyond current scientific explanation and understanding is considered "Magic", mystical, or supernatural until or unless it can be described by science. Conversely any claimed "science" which has not been proven is by definition supernatural or beyond science supernatural
You do realize that Clarke was an Atheist?
Clarke writes: Absolutely no religious rites of any kind, relating to any religious faith, should be associated with my funeral.[ The Times Online writes:
Clarke’s work was infused with an enthusiasm for the future. Two constants were the technological wonders that could complete Man’s evolutionary destiny ” taking him down from the trees and sending him up to the Moon ” and the spiritual imperative that drove him towards this new age. Although his oeuvre was not explicitly religious ” “Any path to knowledge is a path to God ” or Reality, whichever word one prefers to use”, he said ” he did give Man’s journey a mystical significance and a quasireligious intensity. Why cant Abiogenesis be such a path?
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AlphaOmegakid Member (Idle past 2907 days) Posts: 564 From: The city of God Joined: |
dokukaeru writes: This is another example of your lack of understanding. Viruses are not only agents of death. Have you ever heard of a bacteriophage?
Wikipedia writes:
ReplicationBacteriophages may have a lytic cycle or a lysogenic cycle, but a few viruses are capable of carrying out both. With lytic phages such as the T4 phage, bacterial cells are broken open (lysed) and destroyed after immediate replication of the virion. As soon as the cell is destroyed, the new bacteriophages viruses can find new hosts. Lytic phages are the kind suitable for phage therapy. In contrast, the lysogenic cycle does not result in immediate lysing of the host cell. Those phages able to undergo lysogeny are known as temperate phages. Their viral genome will integrate with host DNA and replicate along with it fairly harmlessly, or may even become established as a plasmid The virus remains dormant until host conditions deteriorate, perhaps due to depletion of nutrients, then the endogenous phages (known as prophages) become active. At this point they initiate the reproductive cycle resulting in lysis of the host cell. As the lysogenic cycle allows the host cell to continue to survive and reproduce, the virus is reproduced in all of the cell’s offspring.
Sometimes prophages may provide benefits to the host bacterium while they are dormant by adding new functions to the bacterial genome in a phenomenon called lysogenic conversion A famous example is the conversion of a harmless strain of Vibrio cholerae by a phage into a highly virulent one, which causes cholera. This is why temperate phages are not suitable for phage therapy. Wow. Thanks dokukaeru. We can all learn from each other. What I learned from you is exactly why we shouldn't be teaching this crap to our kids. It is amazing to me how some people of faith can read whatever they want to read in a given text. Look at the underlined sections of the passage you cited. (by the way, thank you for at least citing something) Bateriophages are all agents of death. It is all underlined for you to understand. If you can. You may be referring to the phenomena of horizontal gene transfer that happens in a lysogenic conversion. What you don't understand is this is not the same as normal horizontal gene transfer between living organisms. The virus remains dormant until such time as it is ready to lyse. (kill the cell) That's why all the examples of this that we have are extremely virulent diseases like diptheria, cholera, botulism, scarlet fever, Shiga toxin, and tetanus. lysogenic conversion All viruses are agents of death. Your own citation is against your argument. But somewhere you've been taught this mystical garbage that viruses are at the "edge" of life. So is arsenic. It's a chemical. Voila!. Abiogenesis. It's magic!
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New Cat's Eye Inactive Member |
It is amazing to me how some people of faith can read whatever they want to read in a given text. Is this a self-reference?
Look at the underlined sections of the passage you cited. (by the way, thank you for at least citing something) Bateriophages are all agents of death. It is all underlined for you to understand. If you can. You failed again, kid. Whats that, like, 3 times now I've caught you failing in this thread?
Wikipedia writes:
In contrast, the lysogenic cycle does not result in immediate lysing of the host cell. Those phages able to undergo lysogeny are known as temperate phages. Their viral genome will integrate with host DNA and replicate along with it fairly harmlessly, or may even become established as a plasmid The virus remains dormant until host conditions deteriorate, perhaps due to depletion of nutrients, then the endogenous phages (known as prophages) become active. At this point they initiate the reproductive cycle resulting in lysis of the host cell. As the lysogenic cycle allows the host cell to continue to survive and reproduce, the virus is reproduced in all of the cell’s offspring.
Sometimes prophages may provide benefits to the host bacterium while they are dormant by adding new functions to the bacterial genome in a phenomenon called lysogenic conversion A famous example is the conversion of a harmless strain of Vibrio cholerae by a phage into a highly virulent one, which causes cholera. This is why temperate phages are not suitable for phage therapy. The red part proves that not all virus are agents of death. If the cells reproduce then the virus isn't an agent of death. Besides, if they were, then we wouldn't have things like Endogenous retroviruses.
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cavediver Member (Idle past 3674 days) Posts: 4129 From: UK Joined: |
Hey, any chance of a reply to the following? This is your second reminder.
cavediver writes:
You ignored my last post here (msg 105) so I will try again:
cavediver writes:
I'm sorry, I specifically requested you point out where the Law of Biogenesis would prevent the mechanisms portrayed in the video from occurring. However, I do fully understand if you are not capable of addressing this subject at that level.
AOK writes: Because it uses imaginary mystical life forms. There was nothing in the slightest bit mystical in the video - it was remarkable in its almost trivial simplicity - but I can understand how someone with your outlook would view it as mystical. I will try once more - where would the Law of Biogenesis prevent the mechanisms portrayed in the video from occurring?
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Coragyps Member (Idle past 765 days) Posts: 5553 From: Snyder, Texas, USA Joined: |
All viruses are agents of death. Like all carnivores and insectivores? Doesn't that make, say, a tiger shark something that's not alive? Who gives a shit if many viruses kill cells? It's another way to make a living that isn't autotrophy. "The wretched world lies now under the tyranny of foolishness; things are believed by Christians of such absurdity as no one ever could aforetime induce the heathen to believe." - Agobard of Lyons, ca. 830 AD
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AlphaOmegakid Member (Idle past 2907 days) Posts: 564 From: The city of God Joined: |
dokukaeru writes: You do realize that Clarke was an Atheist? So?.....I know many brilliant atheists. I know many ignorant atheists. Most science papers are written by atheists. That should give my argument more weight. Did you realize that Thomas Huxley, the "Bulldog" of Evolution was an atheist, and he is my source for declaring that that abiogenesis is a philosophical faith and that biogenesis is a law of nature.
dokukaeru writes: Why cant Abiogenesis be such a path? It is indeed such a path. A path of faith. A religious path. Keep it out of the schools. thank you.
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New Cat's Eye Inactive Member |
dokukaeru writes: Why cant Abiogenesis be such a path? It is indeed such a path. A path of faith. A religious path. Keep it out of the schools. thank you.
So you continue to assert despite being refuted with the showing of the evidence in favor of abiogenesis that makes it non-faith, by definition. Reasserting refuted arguments makes you a troll, kid.
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