Anybody with religous topics
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*sounds like a valid point.
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I saw this in the wine cellar forum and copied/pasted.
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Many examples showing God's design could be given, possibly with no end. But here are a few:
The Earth...its size is perfect. The Earth's size and corresponding gravity holds a thin layer of mostly nitrogen and oxygen gases, only extending about 50 miles above the Earth's surface. If Earth were smaller, an atmosphere would be impossible, like the planet Mercury. If Earth were larger, its atmosphere would contain free hydrogen, like Jupiter.3 Earth is the only known planet equipped with an atmosphere of the right mixture of gases to sustain plant, animal and human life.
The Earth is located the right distance from the sun. Consider the temperature swings we encounter, roughly -30 degrees to +120 degrees. If the Earth were any further away from the sun, we would all freeze. Any closer and we would burn up. Even a fractional variance in the Earth's position to the sun would make life on Earth impossible. The Earth remains this perfect distance from the sun while it rotates around the sun at a speed of nearly 67,000 mph. It is also rotating on its axis, allowing the entire surface of the Earth to be properly warmed and cooled every day.
And our moon is the perfect size and distance from the Earth for its gravitational pull. The moon creates important ocean tides and movement so ocean waters do not stagnate, and yet our massive oceans are restrained from spilling over across the continents.4
Water...colorless, odorless and without taste, and yet no living thing can survive without it. Plants, animals and human beings consist mostly of water (about two-thirds of the human body is water). You'll see why the characteristics of water are uniquely suited to life:
It has wide margin between its boiling point and freezing point. Water allows us to live in an environment of fluctuating temperature changes, while keeping our bodies a steady 98.6 degrees.
Water is a universal solvent. This property of water means that various chemicals, minerals and nutrients can be carried throughout our bodies and into the smallest blood vessels.5
Water is also chemically neutral. Without affecting the makeup of the substances it carries, water enables food, medicines and minerals to be absorbed and used by the body.
Water has a unique surface tension. Water in plants can therefore flow upward against gravity, bringing life-giving water and nutrients to the top of even the tallest trees.
Water freezes from the top down and floats, so fish can live in the winter.
Ninety-seven percent of the Earth's water is in the oceans. But on our Earth, there is a system designed which removes salt from the water and then distributes that water throughout the globe. Evaporation takes the ocean waters, leaving the salt, and forms clouds which are easily moved by the wind to disperse water over the land, for vegetation, animals and people. It is a system of purification and supply that sustains life on this planet, a system of recycled and reused water.6
The human brain...simultaneously processes an amazing amount of information. Your brain takes in all the colors and objects you see, the temperature around you, the pressure of your feet against the floor, the sounds around you, the dryness of your mouth, even the texture of your keyboard. Your brain holds and processes all your emotions, thoughts and memories. At the same time your brain keeps track of the ongoing functions of your body like your breathing pattern, eyelid movement, hunger and movement of the muscles in your hands.
The human brain processes more than a million messages a second.7 Your brain weighs the importance of all this data, filtering out the relatively unimportant. This screening function is what allows you to focus and operate effectively in your world. The brain functions differently than other organs. There is an intelligence to it, the ability to reason, to produce feelings, to dream and plan, to take action, and relate to other people.
The eye...can distinguish among seven million colors. It has automatic focusing and handles an astounding 1.5 million messages -- simultaneously.8 Evolution focuses on mutations and changes from and within existing organisms. Yet evolution alone does not fully explain the initial source of the eye or the brain -- the start of living organisms from nonliving matter." -
That post was cancerous.
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Sorry, I usually don't state something like that without immediately backing it up, but i was on my phone at the time and your post was so cancerous that it literally compelled me to get out of bed at 4 AM so I could get on my computer and type up a decent response to explain how cancerous it is. Now I know that you copy pasted this because you at least had the common courtesy to admit it, but since you're using it as your opinion, I'm going to hold you to it. Let's begin.
1. Your entire view on this is flawed. Earth was the way it was long before life showed up. Life formed in accordance with Earth, and only requires the environment earth has because that was the planet it built itself around.
2. The Earth's size argument is complete s---. There are plenty of other planets that could happily support life. Nothing about the planet's size or atmospheric contents matter because Earth wasn't created to support a predefined life form.
3. Mercury has a radius of 1,516 miles while Earth has a radius of 3,959 miles. It's nearly 1/3 the size of Earth. That's not a small amount. There are two other rocky planets in our solar system that have atmospheres, namely Mars and Venus. Both of these are also smaller than Earth. Mars could even have the potential to sustain Earth life. If life had sprung up on Mars, then it would be acclimated to Martian requirements, and would have difficulty surviving on Earth, the same way that Earth life would have trouble on Mars.
4. The area around our star that our life could exist is a little over 1 astronomical unit, or AU. Which is roughly 93,000,000 miles. I suggest looking up Goldilock's zones before you make claims like this in the future.
5. Most of the Earth's Atmosphere is Nitrogen. we're talking 70%+ of it.
6. A day is an arbitrary unit.
7. There are billions of stars which all have their own planets orbiting them. Let's do some simple math. Let's pretend that only 1 new star is formed in this galaxy per year. That's grossly conservative, but it will do just fine for this purpose. Let's pretend that only 1/5 of those stars have planets. And let's say that only 1/5 of those stars with planets will actually have a planet in the habitable zone. And that only 1/100 of those planets will actually produce life. So we have 1/5/5/100=.0004. That's a very small number. Now consider that the estimate for stars in our galaxy is 100 billion. .0004*100,000,000,000= 40,000,000 planets in our galaxy that will produce life. Suddenly we're not all that special.
8. Our oceans do flood over onto our continents. Quite often. Also the moon is slowly moving away from the Earth. Also the moon isn't the only thing to affect tides. Also, the oceans have eroded into their current nooks and the continents shifting has helped establish that. Also the continents aren't important because life isn't important. It's a happy accident. A chance in a million. Or should I say A 40 million chance in 100 billion. Honestly the entire moon thing seemed pretty ill-conceived.
9. Homeostasis keeps our bodies at their temperatures. Not water, you dolt. And the difference between it's boiling and freezing point is negligible and ultimately redundant. There are life forms that exist in sub freezing environments as well as boiling heats. Think before you post.
10. Water is a universal solvent, unless you're talking about oils, which, you know, make up a lot of our bodies as well.
11. I seriously hope you aren't claiming we have water in our bodies so we could absorb medicine. That's so dumb it hurts.
12. "Water lets plants grow upwards so that tall plants can have water." That sentence was made so poorly that it's laughable. It's also redundant and doesn't actually make any sense.
13. "Water freezes from the top down and floats, so fish can live in the winter." I'm not even going to change this one. Just read it and feel bad.
14. The system that you're speaking of was already on earth. The life that came LATER, utilized it and is now dependent on it. It was not created for the life. If that were the case, why not use the same system as some of Jupiter's moons. They just use geysers to blast water into the atmosphere to rain down elsewhere. It's faster, more efficient, and doesn't have all those pesky weather conditions.
15. Yes, Evolution has taken our bodies far, hasn't it? We share half our DNA with the Banana and have less genomes than a Potato, but because we can type about how self aware we are, we're suddenly vastly amazing.
16. You're right, Evolution doesn't cover the origin. It does however, cover the brain and the eye, if you would just stop pretending you understand it, and do some actual f---ing research. -
CatsClimbLadders NoviceXD m9 you clearly researched for that comeback sheesh, but still most of those claims were pretty bad, almost as bad as a kid in grade 5 thinking plants 'breathed in' oxygen and breathed out carbon dioxide. When I saw his poster explaining it, I wanted to go sit in a corner and cry for 5 minutes whilst rocking repeatedly saying "why" over and ober
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