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The question I asked did not suggest that a house on Mars would be an indication of God. Actually, the question I asked related to why a house on Mars would convince us of the presence of a being that no one had seen, whose properties might be quite unlike any known. Most responses were along...

Actually, I do. Not that it makes me an expert, but biology was my college major. So I am adequately familiar with the concepts being promoted. Darwin's definition of evolution included the concept that species evolve into separate species and attempted to give an account of how the earliest...

Quote from dgabriel: KFF, Lets' move on. I have a short questionnaire I hope you have the courage to answer. 1) Do you believe in God? yes 2) Do subscribe to the theory of evolution? no 3) Is it possible to answer yes to both question #1 and #2? yes 4) Can a true believer in God...

Your example is satisfactory if you are interested in playing with semantics and have a limited understanding of what cell replication implies. When I stated that a living cell cannot be shown to create itself out of nothing, I mean specifically in the sense of a living cell constructing itself...

Please read all sentences before responding. If anyone is tripping, it is clearly you! You are seeing things in my posts that are not there. Where did I ever mention anything about "Islamic destruction, 911"? What insinuation? Is this also a sneeze without an "atchoo"? You made the...

As technologically advanced as we are, I am curious why the difficulty of making organic chains "create themselves", doesn't make people question: "Is it really possible that this is how it all came to be"? All the brilliant minds in the world can't begin to grasp how those "primitive"...

What is a right to life, and why does being rational entitle one to it? Do animals have a right to life?

Reread the post that you quoted, I made no mention of an afterlife. You are correct in pointing out that if there is nothing after death, there is no way one would "realize" it. What I was trying to convey is that I do not believe shoeshineboy's intentions are to deceive people into believing...

I find it interesting that you believe that science and religion are mutually exclusive. I find that science makes it easier for me to accept the concept of something out there which designed the universe. It just happens to be that many scientists would like to use science to prove the...

I follow where you're coming from in the first part of your post. Essentially you're saying "well if the universe defied the immeasurable odds of coming into existence on its own, why not life, too?" I don't follow your notion that the universe may have existed forever, however...

I asked the question not as a trap, but to see what conclusions individuals who do not believe in a creator would draw. My personal feeling about a house on mars would be that something must have made it, because organized structures do not appear on their own. I feel the same way about life.

This is quoted from the above link: Creationist claims: The second law of thermodynamics requires that all systems and individual parts of systems have a tendency to go from order to disorder. The second law will not permit order to spontaneously arise from disorder. To do so would...

Until you can provide something beyond mere unsupported hypotheses, your story of intelligent design will continue to live in the shadow of evolutionary theory and fact. Wheres the beaf? I can make up a story from scratch to compete with your intelligent design hypothesis and they would...

I look forward to your post! "Survival of the fittest", and evolution are two completely different concepts. It is certainly true that in nature, less fit members of a species will be less likely to survive. If a gazelle has a bum leg, most likely the cheetahs will kill and eat it. How this...

The reason I posed this question is to find out what conclusions people would come to if something like a house were found on mars. My assumption is that people would conclude that there must be other beings out there, because how else could a house be constructed? A house would offer clear...

Where does even relative right and wrong come from? A rat does not conduct itself based on what is relatively right or wrong. It just does what it does. Why then is there a relative right or wrong for humans? When someone decides to murder someone, why do we consider the victim to have...

rg, I completely agree with the assertion above. That was not my intent. Rather, I am curious to see whether or not atheists would conclude as I would--"Aha, we are/were not alone". In response to your riddle, I must say that the riddle is flawed. One of the presuppositions is that...

For those who do not believe that there is a god, what would your reaction be if the mars rover sent back clear photos of a well built house on the martian surface(assuming that the photo was proven to be legitimate)? --I originally posted this query at the tail end of a very long thread...

For those who do not believe that there is a god, what would your reaction be if the mars rover sent back clear photos of a well built house on the martian surface(assuming that the photo was proven to be legitimate)?