Quote: (06-05-2015 10:17 PM)scorpion Wrote:
Quote: (06-05-2015 09:54 PM)storm Wrote:
However, suppose for a moment that there is no origin story. Time goes back infinitely. There is no beginning. At any point in time you can look back further, exactly like at any point in time you can look forward. Then by sheer volume of time alone and by the nonzero probability of molecules just happening to show up in the right place at the right time we, with certainty, will see exactly this situation show up at some point.
Bertrand Russell already has a Nobel Prize.
But you don't have an infinite amount of time. You have 4.5 billion years, the age of the Earth according to science. That's the amount of time you have to somehow turn a rock into a human being. You must explain how DNA spontaneously evolves out of a rock to even begin to entertain the idea of evolution. Most proponents of this idiotic theory overlook this (probably because they haven't actually thought about it and take it on faith) and just focus on the idea that apes evolved into humans, completely ignoring the earlier steps of the process which require DNA to appear out of nowhere, and then somehow, prevailing against odds which cannot even begin to be calculated, that DNA mutates perfectly hundreds of billions of times in order to evolve millions of different complex species.
And remember, it all started with a rock that one day randomly turned into a living organism.
Incredibly, this is all somehow regarded as "science" and not "scientific religion".
So open this a bit. Why must I know the origin of life to entertain the idea of evolution? What the hell does evolution mean in your context, if not the usual speciation Darwin et al talk about?