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10 Flaws with the Big Bang

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No offense but I think you win the prize for stating the highest number of tangents in the fewest possible words. Well done!
 
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I am just saying that it could not happen all by itself. Something, or rather I should say someone, was there to cause it to happen.
Assertion: no substantiation or evidence to support this position.

Evolution has an extremely low probability of spontaneity
Irrelevant.
Evolution is not spontaneous, any more than gravity.

however, the Big Bang has a spontaneous probability of exactly zero.
Assertion: no substantiation or evidence to support this position.

Evolution is put near, but not exactly zero, for spontaneity, because so much would go against the second law of thermodynamics, the law of entropy.
Incorrect. Fundamental misunderstanding of both thermodynamics and evolution.
Also irrelevant as evolution is not "spontaneous".

Some other problems I have with spontaneous evolution are the existence sexual reproduction.
Illogical: argument from personal incredulity.

Why is it that there has to be sex for there to be reproduction?
Incorrect assumption: sex is not required for reproduction.

Why don't organisms just form birth pods or magically replicate themselves?
Magically replicate? So many problems... As for "birth pods", aren't eggs or gametes just that? So many problems...

The other is the extreme complexity of the human brain.
Argument from personal incredulity.


Well done - not a single sentence that isn't gravely flawed.
 
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If you really want to understand me, try reading Creation And Time and The Creator And The Cosmos. Another example of extreme improbability: to make Earth's gravity such that it allows ammonia (MW=17) to escape into space but retains water (MW=18), on top of that making this planet to be just the right distance from the right size star and that that same star isn't too young or too old...
 
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The physical conditions of earth weren't adapted to human life, human life adapted to the physical conditions of earth.
 
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It's a good thing that this is the only planet in the universe, or people might laugh at this argument.
 
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Ok first of all I would like to know how this got from the Big Bang to evolution.



Illuminatus said:
The physical conditions of earth weren't adapted to human life, human life adapted to the physical conditions of earth.

But shouldn't we then expect to see life arise from and adapt to the physical conditions on other planets as well?
 
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_Paladin_ said:
But shouldn't we then expect to see life arise from and adapt to the physical conditions on other planets as well?

Possibly, however, we have a very limited frame of reference. There's only 9 planets in the solar system, and a few large moons. It takes a lot of time just to get a probe out to these planets, much less one that has the capability to examine the entire surface of the planet for signs of life. The technology just isn't there yet.
 
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Well, we have another planet in this very solar system which is nearly the same size as the Earth so it's not that impossible. Also, "just the right distance" is much larger than most people give credit for. If not for other considerations, Venus and Mars would most likely be able to support life based on temperature issues. It is the atmosphere of Venus which makes it so extremly hot and it is the thinness on the atmosphere of Mars that makes it so cold. Granted, life which formed on planets this close or this far from their star would be different than what we find here, but they wouldn't be excluded from existing.
 
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_Paladin_ said:
Ok first of all I would like to know how this got from the Big Bang to evolution.

I havne't looked through all ten pages to see exactly how it happened, but it doesn't suprise me, and I'd like to toss out a hypothesis.

I taught the astronomy lab at college for a while. I came to the conclusion that for many people (but not all), their distrust of evolution is reflected upon all of science. Whether you think this is reasonable or not, I found consistently that when people were extremely skeptical of scientific ideas, if I persued them long enough, many times evolution just appeared, as if out of nowhere. Just as it does in these threads.

I'm not suggesting there is anything wrong with being skeptical, I'm very skeptical of many things. I'm just pointing out, from personal experience, that many people's skepticism of one thing is not based on information they have about that thing - it is based on their skepticism of another. Dig deep enough and you come to the source.
 
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I'm still suprised that this thread is going...

give the dog a bone eh?

Like A puddle saying unto itself that the depression it finds itself in is so well suited to its existance.
 
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Your soho shot used to be my desk top! I love that pic.

(sorry to breakin like that, I am giddy to find a possible new forum home)
 
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