the impossibility of random protein folding...
Where did you come up with that weird statement? In thirteen billion years a lot of things happen by sheer chance. It's very difficult to understand what it means to have a time-span of 13,000,000,000 years, when few of us even live 100 years. The difference is that scientists try very hard to understand it, whereas religionists just throw up their hands and say, "Shit, that's too hard for me. I'll let God figure it out. My brain hurts; I'll go read my favorite passage in the Bible for the two hundredth time."
They tell us that something cannot come from nothing, yet expect us to believe that this is precisely how the universe came to be!
Like all supernaturalists, you misquote science because you don't understand it and don't want to. You have vastly oversimplified an event that we have barely begun to understand. I'll assume that you're familiar with the Laws of Thermodynamics, because if not then you're a complete fool for pretending to understand this stuff.
The Second Law of Thermodynamics says that entropy
tends to increase over time; in other words, order ultimately collapses into complete disorder. But spatially and temporally
reversals of entropy are quite possible. We experience them every day inside our own bodies, where rather random combinations of organic molecules are ripped apart and reassembled so as to give us the energy to live and work. This is a
spatially local reversal of entropy. The Big Bang was a
temporally local reversal. It happened briefly, causing order to exist where there was none, and this order has been decaying ever since--with myriad local reversals such as our own bodies. The result of this local reversal of entropy was the universe coming into existence (temporarily). The matter and antimatter in the universe is in perfect balance so
something did not come from nothing. The nothing (a universe with a net mass of zero) is still there, it just has
temporarily more organization.
This is called "physics." You might want to read up on it before you dive in over your head again. Most of us took it in our university courses.
They invent tales of evolution as a blind process by which random accidents in genetic code result in, well, us.
Where in the holy hell do you come up with this utterly preposterous
bullshit??? You talk like a precocious third-grader who knows a lot of fancy words but is very weak on the concepts behind them. Oh wait, all Christians talk that way, don't they. Everything in the universe is just a little too complicated so they don't bother to try to understand it.
We did not
invent evolution. We
discovered it. There are two entirely different, enormous bodies of evidence for evolution that corroborate each other. One is the
fossil record. We've carbon-dated fossils back through hundreds of millions of years so we know with considerable precision which animal, plant, fungus, alga, bacterium or archaeum lived when, so we can chart the temporal relationships among them, and deduce which was the ancestor or descendant of the other.
The other body of evidence is
DNA, which was discovered in the 20th century. We've found well-preserved DNA going back around 100,000 years. This is enough to determine the rates of mutation in the living organisms on this planet caused by cosmic rays and other perturbations. We've also compared the DNA of tens of thousands of species of animals, plants, etc., in order to see how closely they are related. For example, humans and chimpanzees (two different species of ape) share about 95% of their DNA. Humans and banana trees (one is an animal, the other a plant, from two different kingdoms of lifeforms) share about 40% of their DNA. We've also charted the DNA of organisms with very short lifespans such as bacteria, who go through a hundred or more generations in a year so we can actually witness their mutation and evolution, and learn to understand the mechanisms that drive mutation and evolution.
All of this hard work in the sciences of paleontology and genetics give us an astounding view into the evolution of life on earth. It's hardly complete, but it is certainly
not invented. When we insult your idiotic priests and the stupid fairy tales in their holy books, you scream at us and some of you (especially Muslims) simply come at us with guns. But when you insult the dedicated, hard-working, highly educated
scientists who help us understand how the universe
actually works, you expect us to endure it graciously.
Hell no! Fuck all the brainless fairy tale believers who insult science and scientists. I'm sick to death of them.
No, the reasonable man does not believe anything by faith alone. Not when God has imbued this generation with the means to see His fingerprints upon Creation.
But your fairytale "God" is nothing more than a construct of faith. There is absolutely no respectable evidence for the existence of God. In fact you folks insist that he
expects you to believe in him solely on faith. You're making up cute little stories that pretend to provide logic for your fairytales, but any first-year university student can demolish them.
Most people in this world are neither Christian nor atheist. Where do they fit in?
Christians are the largest single sect. That is, if you count the Catholics, Protestants, Mormons, Orthodox, etc. as a single sect. Not all of them actually do that. During the U.S. presidential campaign, many Christians from traditional denominations insisted that Romney is not actually a Christian because Mormons don't believe in the Trinity.
There is something atheists are missing in this argument. Today science has cheated and are turning off brain receptors in your brain that normally where always used in spirituality.
Where do you guys come up with this crap??? Did you read that on a fortune cookie?
Thats why less people goto church today, and why so many of the public today see no believe in god, or right or wrong, as they have no connection with what ever those brain receptors where opening up to.
You're out of your mind. At the time of the American Revolution, only about 20% of Americans were members of churches. Today the figure is 50%. The Religious Redneck Retard Revival in the late 1970s and early 1980s saw a huge increase in church membership and attendance.
You and Balerion must get your misinformation from the same source. Fox News?
