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Why do you keep digging that hole? There are no degrees of impossibility. Things cannot be "more impossible" or "equally impossible". You should have used "likely" or "unlikely". It's fairly basic English.
I'm done now, thank you.
-_- though cave systems continue to form and collapse through observable natural and unintelligent processes.
-_- it's a hoax, especially the healing part. Like I told you before, if this liquid actually cured illnesses, someone would be selfless enough to go to a hospital and cure as many people as they could before they were removed from the premises. Or perhaps to a nursing home or hospice filled with dementia patients. Why aren't YOU doing that? If you don't doubt the healing properties at all, what is stopping you?
-_- no one in their right mind would ignore a genuine panacea, regardless as to where it came from. Even if your view of humanity is so low that you think no one is capable of sharing their "healing myrrh oil", are you willing to perpetuate that selfishness yourself? You have two cotton balls, that should be enough for at least two people at a minimum.
-_- you'd never claim that god designs cars, because you very well know humans do it. Cutting down a tree wouldn't mean that I designed the stump, and likewise what developed as a result of any processes you attributed to a designer are not in and of themselves designed by said designer.
-_- differences in mineral composition and the fact that one is an igneous rock while the other is metamorphic (differences in formation). That items have differences doesn't mean that either of them must be designed, especially not if they aren't even made of the same materials.
-_- because there is variation in the materials and conditions that exist on the planet. It's not like we are getting different stuff from identical conditions, dude.
-_- it's just the difference between cooling that occurs slowly versus quickly. They are also rocks. Most of them are useless aside from looking pretty, and given that the god you believe in hates covetousness with a passion, it makes no sense for it to design them at all. It's like how questionable it is that birds are so heavily influenced by sexual selection. It doesn't help a peacock any to have that big, beautiful tail, but you believe that YHWH would be willing to design peahens to be so shallow that they won't mate with a male that isn't colorful.
-_- these are elements, their atoms have different numbers of protons, etc. Which, by the way, nuclear fusion in stars creates different elements, which all stem from hydrogen. If all elements consisted of the same number of protons, electrons, etc., you'd have a point, but since they are all structurally different and continue to form via natural processes, you don't.
Show me one. Then show me how you can prove it wasn't designed.
A manufactured motor is evidence of intelligent manufacture. What about a naturally occurring motor like the flagellum?
Nope.
Only thanks to ADHD pills, and even with them my thoughts get pretty disorganized and unfocused.
-_- I'd never describe someone thinking as "designing their thoughts". Especially since most of your brain functions are not the result of conscious effort.
Most likely not; if I do, I am unaware of it.
-_- sure, in a literal machine, you might put in a specific design (that could come from a mind entirely independent of that which designed the factory), but unless you don't believe in free will, any changes in the environment which are in some regard connected to animal life are not the direct input of the creator you believe in. Beavers make dams that change the course of rivers, for example, and this would result in a different erosion path than what would have originally occurred.
-_- motors aren't complex. Plus, I can polish a rock, and so can natural processes. That is, just because humans build motors doesn't automatically mean that nothing vaguely similar to a motor can develop in nature. And yes, a bacterial flagellum is only vaguely similar to a motor in that a part of it spins. That's all, nothing about the mechanisms of how it works are the same as a human designed motor, and the components of a flagellum are also very different.
Indeed. But not more impossible
Was it? Or was it to demonstrate that your use of language is incorrect?
Your entire argument is "in context...." If you wish to use that argument, then let me point out the context - you are using a spoken convention in a written medium. That does not make your argument correct, it shows poor understanding of contextual use of language.
Hello pot, meet kettleFor its not impossible to make a point to others who do not have the same axe to grind. After all.. agendas must be protected. At all costs. That is not impossible to see. If it were "impossible?" You would be on solid ground. You just want to use some debaters technique and run away.
