Whatever...I agree. You're not open to discussing it, so really you have nothing to discuss with anyone. You're just here to make pointless assertions.
Ah! But God is not limited by any of our laws of physics. God is God and creating something out of nothing is easy for Him.What do you mean 'from scratch'? Obviously they can't just materialize out of nothing (quantum probability notwithstanding).
God can create anything He pleases just by speaking it into being.The best I can understand is from nothing, or from junk dna.
But that is not what the Bible says. It says that God, the greatest intelligence in all of eternity, created the universe and everything in it through His own design, and spoke it all into being, and wrote the complex genetic information into every single cell. There is a significant difference between an intelligent God creating out of nothing and something just coming into existence by itself out of chance. The odds of anything coming into existence by chance is 1:10 to the power of 1 billion.Only creationists make the claim of "from chance". Natural selection is the opposite of chance, that means that since natural selection plays a vital role in evolution it is not a chance event.
Who created the chemistry?Except nobody thinks it happened "by chance". It happened by chemistry.
Irrelevant to the argument about how possible evolution is and how its mechanisms work.Who created the chemistry?
The problem is that there is no substantive evidence for evolution. It is all guesswork about something that might have or probably happened.Irrelevant to the argument about how possible evolution is and how its mechanisms work.
The evidence for evolution currently and historically is compelling, whether God did or did not start it up or direct it doesn't change anything.
The problem is that there is no substantive evidence for evolution.
If we can't believe those two chapters as being the true historical account of the creation of the universe, then we can't rely on the rest of the Bible, including the promises of God involving our salvation.
A chemical reaction has to be initiated by someone. It does not happen by chance, so who initiated it?Doesn't seem relevant to the fact that chemical reactions are generally predictive (e.g. not chance).
A chemical reaction has to be initiated by someone.
Ok. If you say so...doesn't convince me though.No they don't.
Chemical reactions occur when chemicals interact with one another. Deliberate initiation of the interaction is not required. The reactions will occur regardless.
If the full genetic information is written into each brain stem cell as a complex set of instructions about the development of every cell in the human body, the nature of it, and which component of the human body it is for, and the chance of it happening spontaneously is 1:10 to the power of one billion
who do you think wrote the complex digital code that makes up this set of instructions
You haven't addressed the fact that an eminent scientist fed the data into the most powerful computer available to calculate the odds of the genetic code occurring by chance and the result was 1:10 to the power of 1 billion, which means that there is no chance at all.But again, nobody thinks that our genetic code appeared "spontaneously". Making up arbitrary probabilities about scenarios that nobody thinks occurred isn't relevant here.
I don't think anyone wrote it nor needed to write it. Our (e.g. human) genetic code is the result of ~4 billion years worth of genetic evolution.
And if you want to go back to the origin of DNA itself, this goes back to the subject of biochemistry and investigation into molecular pathways which gave rise to DNA.
Name the scientist. Name the computer. Give a date and a reference. What program was run? How was it programmed? What exact data was fed to this program? Is this like the story from the 60s where someone ran a program and found a missing day? Really, really, not convincing.You haven't addressed the fact that an eminent scientist fed the data into the most powerful computer available to calculate the odds of the genetic code occurring by chance and the result was 1:10 to the power of 1 billion, which means that there is no chance at all.
So the theory that it happened by chance over 4 billion years of genetic evolution is just science fantasy. The only realistic answer is what secular scientists are avoiding - that a superior intelligence supplied the genetic information into the cells - in other words, God.
You haven't addressed the fact that an eminent scientist fed the data into the most powerful computer available to calculate the odds of the genetic code occurring by chance
Here is a good link:Name the scientist. Name the computer. Give a date and a reference. What program was run? How was it programmed? What exact data was fed to this program? Is this like the story from the 60s where someone ran a program and found a missing day? Really, really, not convincing.
And, 1 in a billion is indeed a chance; it's 1 in a billion. Yanno, like winning the lottery.
So, if it didn't happen by chance, it must have been deliberately designed and implemented.First, I'd like to see a citation for this.
Second, nobody thinks that genetic code "occurred by chance". You're just continually arguing a strawman.
None of this is relevant.