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| 10 months ago | mod | Removed Comment “Nuh-uh!”
Lol, next time you come back at me, bring evidence. Proof that your “god” is real and exists. Otherwise, you’re just proving my point: that it is all make-believe, and you are dumber than a box of dirt for believing even a word of it.
Of course you won’t, because no evidence of invisible sky wizards exists (because it’s a bullshit myth, lol). But I will be glad to see you scream and hurl slurs and bigotry about it because you’d rather believe in fiction than reality or reason.
Lol
The poop squeezing out of my cat’s ass has an IQ 10 times higher than yours. Why? Because the shit squeezing out of my cat’s ass knows better than to believe in fairytales, and, instead, believes in proof and evidence.
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| 2 years ago | mod | Removed Comment God is a subjective concept. I’m not speaking to any one religion. I’m simply referring to a creator. Science is currently in agreement of the Big Bang beginning existence as we know it. It does not explain where the large masses of matter came from, or what set them in motion.
Like I said, there’s room for both. by disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world reason: Agenda pushing |
| 2 years ago | mod | Removed Comment Einstein was agnostic, not atheist. There is equally insufficient evidence proving, and disproving, the existence of a creator. I’m not referring to an all-knowing, all-powerful, man in the sky, simply the possibility that creation occurred with interference. by disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world reason: Trolling |
| 2 years ago | mod | Removed Comment I'm not religious by any means, and I don't believe in some grand intelligence that supposedly created everything...
That being said, "your" inability to accept that there very well could be spiritual explanations for things science has yet to figure out doesn't mean spirituality is make-believe.
We are an incredibly young species. Thinking that our current scientific method and understanding is perfect just because it's the best we have is incredibly short sighted, which is holding us back.
I know I'll get boo'd for this one, especially in this community. But if y'all think dunking on spiritualists makes your position stronger, you're wrong. It makes you look like a bunch of intolerant assholes. by GardenVarietyAnxiety@lemmy.world reason: Trolling |
| 2 years ago | mod | Removed Comment Why is there something rather than nothing? Especially it being way easier to not exist. You'll find God there, scientifically or not.
Edit: guys, seriously, why is there something than nothing? by Pilferjinx@lemmy.world reason: Trolling |
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| 2 years ago | mod | Removed Comment Wow, you _are_ dense.
I wasn't debating what you said, I was addressing your wrong opinion that it makes a valid argument. by rottingleaf@lemmy.zip reason: Attack idea, not people |
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| 2 years ago | mod | Removed Comment We do have treatment for Leukemia and it has a very high success rate. The problem is the lack of people willing to register as donors.
So yes, everything good comes from god. Or rather god gave us the means to do good, that we couldn't do without him. But it is the free will of good people that turns the ability into reality. by  tryptaminev 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺@feddit.dereason: Misinformation |
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| 2 years ago | mod | Restored Comment This is one of those posts where ultimately I agree with OP, evolution is real and we certainly saw it with the COVID-19 pandemic in case anyone was still in doubt. Still, OP is an edge lord and gives this instance a bad look when they post edge lord stuff like this. by  Kalkaline @leminal.space |
| 2 years ago | mod | Removed Comment This is one of those posts where ultimately I agree with OP, evolution is real and we certainly saw it with the COVID-19 pandemic in case anyone was still in doubt. Still, OP is an edge lord and gives this instance a bad look when they post edge lord stuff like this. by Kalkaline @leminal.space |
| 2 years ago | mod | Removed Comment I love you by Haagel@lemmings.world reason: Dishonest |
| 2 years ago | mod | Removed Comment I guess OP is right. There is no debate... by Haagel@lemmings.world reason: Dishonest |
| 2 years ago | mod | Removed Comment I am capable of honest conversation.
You mentioned new, exciting and important discoveries that benefit us all. Can you please give me an example of one of the benefits of evolution theory? I have not heard of any way in which the theory has been applied. Have we developed novel drugs or technologies as a result of our understanding of evolution theory? Has Evolution Theory facilitated significant improvements in modern medical science?
It seems to me that evolution is not an applied science like physics, chemistry, or biology. by Haagel@lemmings.world reason: Trolling |
| 2 years ago | mod | Removed Comment I hope you don't mind me butting into your conversation, but you're kinda illustrating one of my philosophical issues with esotericism: the claim that only a certified expert is qualified to critique the theory, but every layman is obliged accept the theory.
Although I've only studied up to college level gen Ed biology, I still feel like my concerns with evolution theory are valid. Why must I be dismissed just because I'm not a professional biologist? by Haagel@lemmings.world reason: Dishonest |
| 2 years ago | mod | Removed Comment Thank you for taking time to address some of my issues. I really appreciate the discourse because it helps me to see what I'm missing and to refine my understanding.
Philosophical problems are more nebulous and difficult than empirical ones, but still important IMO, so long as we presume to be rational creatures.
As for determinism, there are many neuroscientists who vouch for determinism as the natural conclusion of evolution theory. [Here's one of the latest professors to say it outright. ](https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2023-10-17/stanford-scientist-robert-sapolskys-decades-of-study-led-him-to-conclude-we-dont-have-free-will-determined-book) I could find more references if you like.
I consider this a dangerous notion because it undermines human judicial systems which naturally assume that a person made a choice to act contrary to law. Persons who plead insanity in criminal cases are given lighter sentences for the very reason that they are considered unable to control their actions. It would be absolutely disastrous if that became the norm.
As for the hypocrisy, the fact that determinism can not be rationally affirmed is the greatest problem of determinism.
Consider that you think that determinism is true. This would imply that you think that determinism is true not because you have rationally freely chosen determinism after careful argumentation; but simply because you were determined to do so. But if so, what is the reason why anyone should hold to determinism? What is the point in trying to convince anyone else of determinism their beliefs about the truth of determinism have already been determined?
The fact that we have to make choices which determine what random outcome we observe is a problem for any attempt to prove that the universe, or even the self, is deterministic. It throws into question the whole notion of everything having an existing state, upon which determinism is predicated.
I don't have time to reply to all of your counter arguments right now, but I would like to ask what you think about democracy. The "equal rights" that you speak of are not empirical, but metaphysical. We're certainly not equal to each other in terms of body size and shape and economic status and hereditary traits and intelligence and ability or any other metric. So on what grounds can we claim equal rights? It seems to me that evolution theory is wholly incongruent with this system of government... by Haagel@lemmings.world reason: Dishonest |
| 2 years ago | mod | Removed Comment Hey, OP! Are we allowed to debate some of these problems with the theory, or am I obliged to believe it anyway? These are my top twenty doubts and I'd appreciate if you could resolve some of them for me.
Empirical problems:
1. Horizontal Gene Transfer upsets the conceptual "tree of life", i.e. if genetics are not exclusively hereditary then it is impossible to determine a last universal common ancestor (LUCA).
2. Lack of a viable mechanism for producing the complex and specific information required to render the genetic code functional.
3. Failure of the fossil record to find support for Darwinian evolution (punctuated equilibrium, Cambrian explosion, etc).
4. Rampant examples of convergent evolution indicate extreme improbability.
5. Abiogenesis.
6. Biogeographical distribution irregularities.
7. Inaccurate predictions regarding so-called "junk DNA", vestigial organs and endogenous retroviruses (ERV).
8. Epigenetics cannot be reduced to a mechanism, certainly not natural selection.
9. "Phenotypic Plasticity" - the correlation between genotypes and phenotypes are no longer 1:1.
10. Beneficial mutations are impossibly rare. In almost all cases, mutations are degenerative, as demonstrated by Richard Lenski's bacteria experiment and Molly Burke's fruit fly experiment - both published in Nature.
Philosophical problems:
1. Alvin Plantinga's "Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism" illustrates that the combination of naturalism and evolution is self-defeating because, under these assumptions, the probability that humans have evolved reliable cognitive faculties is low or inscrutable. This has prompted many ambitious thinkers to suggest that consciousness is an illusion.
2. Humans show many behavioral and cognitive traits and abilities that offer no apparent survival advantage (art, music, religion, introspection, homosexuality, etc.)
3. Evolution as a necessary secular creation myth is ejected from the realm of objective science and is now highly politicized.
4. Determinism - as implied by evolution theory - is dangerously irrational and hypocritical.
5. Democracy is founded on a metaphysical claim which contradicts the tenets of evolution, i.e. "we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal...".
6. Quantum uncertainty undermines the mechanistic nature of evolution theory.
7. Evolution cannot be rationally explained without recourse to vitalist rhetoric, i.e. the "selfish gene".
8. All too frequently, critique of evolution theory is dismissed by appealing to vox populi, a disengenuous logical fallacy, or...
9. Esotericism - the claim that only a certified expert is qualified to critique the theory, but every layman is obliged accept the theory.
10. An evolution research experiment cannot be performed except by design. by Haagel@lemmings.world reason: Dishonest |
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| 2 years ago | mod | Removed Comment Each individual person who stops consuming animals contributes to a rising of cost for those that remain. As costs continue to rise, more people will decide to lower their meat amount. If 25% of people eliminate meat from their diet, we start talking about taking subsidies away from meat producers. If that happens, meat eaters see their supermarket bill possibly triple depending on what products they are buying.
When you say that only health benefits happen from a vegan diet, you are purposefully denying that vegans are doing something you personally are unwilling to do, which is wage economic warfare against people who are profitting off the genocide of the Holocene era's biodiversity.
We are likely going to lose that war, but every person who changes matters in.that fight and I think you would greatly benefit from better educating yourself on the subject. by brambledog@lemmy.today |
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