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      Found some awesome copypasta from /b/ which sums things up quite eloquently:

      The only debate on Intelligent Design that is worthy of its subject ::: 08.11.2005, 10:38
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      Moderator: We're here today to debate the hot new topic, evolution versus Intelligent Des---

      (Scientist pulls out baseball baat.)

      Moderator: Hey, what are you doing?

      (Scientist breaks Intelligent Design advocate's kneecap.)

      Intelligent Design advocate: YEAAARRRRGGGHHHH! YOU BROKE MY KNEECAP!

      Scientist: Perhaps it only appears that I broke your kneecap. Certainly, all the evidence points to the hypothesis I broke your kneecap. For example, your kneecap is broken; it appears to be a fresh wound; and I am holding a baseball bat, which is spattered with your blood. However, a mere preponderance of evidence doesn't mean anything. Perhaps your kneecap was designed that way. Certainly, there are some features of the current situation that are inexplicable according to the "naturalistic" explanation you have just advanced, such as the exact contours of the excruciating pain that you are experiencing right now.

      Intelligent Design advocate: AAAAH! THE PAIN!

      Scientist: Frankly, I personally find it completely implausible that the random actions of a scientist such as myself could cause pain of this particular kind. I have no precise explanation for why I find this hypothesis implausible --- it just is. Your knee must have been designed that way!

      Intelligent Design advocate: YOU BASTARD! YOU KNOW YOU DID IT!

      Scientist: I surely do not. How can we know anything for certain? Frankly, I think we should expose people to all points of view. Furthermore, you should really re-examine whether your hypothesis is scientific at all: the breaking of your kneecap happened in the past, so we can't rewind and run it over again, like a laboratory experiment. Even if we could, it wouldn't prove that I broke your kneecap the previous time. Plus, let's not even get into the fact that the entire universe might have just popped into existence right before I said this sentence, with all the evidence of my alleged kneecap-breaking already pre-formed.

      Intelligent Design advocate: That's a load of bullshit sophistry! Get me a doctor and a lawyer, not necessarily in that order, and we'll see how that plays in court!

      Scientist (turning to audience): And so we see, ladies and gentlemen, when push comes to shove, advocates of Intelligent Design do not actually believe any of the arguments that they profess to believe. When it comes to matters that hit home, they prefer evidence, the scientific method, testable hypotheses, and naturalistic explanations. In fact, they strongly privilege naturalistic explanations over supernatural hocus-pocus or metaphysical wankery. It is only within the reality-distortion field of their ideological crusade that they give credence to the flimsy, ridiculous arguments which we so commonly see on display. I must confess, it kind of felt good, for once, to be the one spouting free-form bullshit; it's so terribly easy and relaxing, compared to marshaling rigorous arguments backed up by empirical evidence. But I fear that if I were to continue, then it would be habit-forming, and bad for my soul. Therefore, I bid you adieu.
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      habit forming.

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      Quote Originally Posted by ShadowNightWing View Post
      Yeah SHOT DOWN! It is not a type-o. You have not yet refuted any of my information. The entire basis of this argument derives on "New Information" arising out of chance and not a design mechanism. You have shown literally nothing. You tried the following unsuccessfully.

      Bacteria digesting nylon – You failed!

      Plasmids – You failed!

      Abiogenesis – You failed!

      Mutations – You failed!

      Viruses and Bacteria – You failed!

      Crystals – You failed!

      You have not given me anything that gives new information whatsoever so Yes your argument has been shot to pieces. My basis has been proven and you have not disproven it. You are the one left with showing information arising just by chance or accidently which you have yet to prove.
      Wow! Shadow you just ripped that poor dear lad' to shreads That's freaking hilarious! I hate to be the embarasement of that guy. Oh man that's funny.

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      Quote Originally Posted by Ne-yo View Post
      Wow! Shadow you just ripped that poor dear lad' to shreads That's freaking hilarious! I hate to be the embarasement of that guy. Oh man that's funny.
      Embarrassed? I'm still waiting for all the supposed defeats that I'm somehow suffered. I haven't seen a shred of documentation on how ID supposedly explains anything I've presented

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      Quote Originally Posted by ShadowNightWing View Post
      Yeah SHOT DOWN! It is not a type-o. You have not yet refuted any of my information. The entire basis of this argument derives on "New Information" arising out of chance and not a design mechanism. You have shown literally nothing. You tried the following unsuccessfully.

      Bacteria digesting nylon – You failed!

      Plasmids – You failed!

      Abiogenesis – You failed!

      Mutations – You failed!

      Viruses and Bacteria – You failed!

      Crystals – You failed!

      You have not given me anything that gives new information whatsoever so Yes your argument has been shot to pieces. My basis has been proven and you have not disproven it. You are the one left with showing information arising just by chance or accidently which you have yet to prove.
      Let me just put down examples for all the things I've supposed to have failed on:
      Beneficial Mutations:
      http://www.gate.net/~rwms/EvoMutations.html

      Evolution causing increases in Information:
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I14KTshLUkg

      Abiogenesis:
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenesis
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozbFerzjkz4

      Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria:
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibiotic_resistance

      Viruses:
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV#Genetic_variability

      Now, let's see some examples of how ID is supposed to work.
      Last edited by bluefinger; 06-08-2008 at 10:08 PM.
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      Quote Originally Posted by bluefinger View Post
      Embarrassed? I'm still waiting for all the supposed defeats that I'm somehow suffered. I haven't seen a shred of documentation on how ID supposedly explains anything I've presented
      You still haven't shown how new information can arise naturalistically. God is the creator of information hence, this is where DNA comes from. As far as I have seen, you still have explaining to do. You haven't delievered anything that would hold water in a court system.

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      Quote Originally Posted by Ne-yo View Post
      You still haven't shown how new information can arise naturalistically. God is the creator of information hence, this is where DNA comes from. As far as I have seen, you still have explaining to do. You haven't delievered anything that would hold water in a court system.
      I just explained this iwth Rocks and Feces.

      Do try to keep up.

      But then you are claiming all informaiton comes from one entitty-- So then your task is now to prove this entity since you just pushed it to the point of such extreme redundancy Occam's Razor has just shaved it away.

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      Quote Originally Posted by Seismosaur View Post
      I just explained this iwth Rocks and Feces.

      Do try to keep up.

      But then you are claiming all informaiton comes from one entitty-- So then your task is now to prove this entity since you just pushed it to the point of such extreme redundancy Occam's Razor has just shaved it away.
      No No you got it all wrong, that's not my task. I know My God exist, therefore I don't need to prove it to you. Your mission is to prove me wrong.

      Good luck!

      Edit: BTW I saw your explanation of rocks and fecal matter, at the same time I saw how Shadow knocked that one down and yet you have delievered nothing else to the table, besides "OH WELL INFORMATION DOESN"T EXIST" give me a break!

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      Ne-Yo:

      Congratulations on your epic failure at the follwoing:

      - Science and the principles of truths and logic
      - Proofs
      - Understanding what someone else says in a post.

      You are such a dumbass I find it hard to believe you even took middle-school science.

      And I had already said information did not exist.

      This is because anything can be information. In fact, everything can be labeled as information.

      It does not exist in the same way that Morals do not exist; simply because they are labels for something that change arbitrarly.

      You say information has to have intent: I state otherwise and all you do is change the definition of information.

      But at least Shadow contributed, instead of being a mindless, trolling idiot with nothing to say but "lul u admited dufeat i win lolz!", etc, etc...

      If you have soemthing constructive to say then by all mean say it: Otherwise I am kindly asking you to

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      Quote Originally Posted by Ne-yo View Post
      You haven't delievered anything that would hold water in a court system.
      I added more to my previous post on examples to show what I'm arguing about. However, I have yet to see anything on how ID is supposed to work in detail, so now the burden of proof lies upon the advocates of ID to provide that very information.

      Even if Evolution was debunked, you'd be left in a position where you still have to prove ID to be correct. It isn't a case of "If A is wrong, then B must be true!", it is a case of "If A is wrong, then I must show how B is true".
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      Quote Originally Posted by Ne-yo View Post
      No No you got it all wrong, that's not my task. I know My God exist, therefore I don't need to prove it to you. Your mission is to prove me wrong.

      Good luck!

      Edit: BTW I saw your explanation of rocks and fecal matter, at the same time I saw how Shadow knocked that one down and yet you have delievered nothing else to the table, besides "OH WELL INFORMATION DOESN"T EXIST" give me a break!
      That is worthy of being added to FSTDT. Seriously...
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      Quote Originally Posted by Seismosaur View Post
      Ne-Yo:

      Congratulations on your epic failure at the follwoing:

      - Science and the principles of truths and logic
      - Proofs
      - Understanding what someone else says in a post.

      You are such a dumbass I find it hard to believe you even took middle-school science.

      And I had already said information did not exist.
      LOL. you're a funny little guy, claiming information doesn't exist. Ok, then let's do this!

      ABDINCOOSPSPDOCSOCONSOCIIEKCMOSONDNSLELSCXST

      What information do you get from that?

      The dog jumped over the fence

      Now what information do you get from this?

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      Quote Originally Posted by Ne-yo View Post
      LOL. you're a funny little guy, claiming information doesn't exist. Ok, then let's do this!

      ABDINCOOSPSPDOCSOCONSOCIIEKCMOSONDNSLELSCXST

      What information do you get from that?

      The dog jumped over the fence

      Now what information do you get from this?
      1. A string of letters form the english alphabet.

      2. Another string of letters from the english alphabet, this time the substrings combined in the particular order gave me the image of a Canine Vaulting a Barrier.

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      Quote Originally Posted by Ne-yo View Post
      LOL. you're a funny little guy, claiming information doesn't exist. Ok, then let's do this!

      ABDINCOOSPSPDOCSOCONSOCIIEKCMOSONDNSLELSCXST

      What information do you get from that?

      The dog jumped over the fence

      Now what information do you get from this?
      1001 1101 1010 0001 0110 1011 0010 1111 0111 1011 1101 1000

      What information did you get out of that?
      Last edited by bluefinger; 06-08-2008 at 10:32 PM.
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      Quote Originally Posted by ShadowNightWing View Post
      You're an Ahtheist you've already selected your choice
      No, it is not a choice. I challenge you to go to the "2 + 2 = 5" thread in the R/S forum and do an interview. Nobody else has done it yet.
      How do you know you are not dreaming right now?

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      Quote Originally Posted by Ne-yo View Post
      You still haven't shown how new information can arise naturalistically. God is the creator of information hence, this is where DNA comes from. As far as I have seen, you still have explaining to do. You haven't delievered anything that would hold water in a court system.
      Lol in other words God is the creator of information, even though he is information himself, and even if you show me something naturalistic, God still did it anyway. It doesn't happen in nature so if something happens in nature, it isn't really happening in nature.

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      Quote Originally Posted by Sandform View Post
      Lol in other words God is the creator of information, even though he is information himself, and even if you show me something naturalistic, God still did it anyway. It doesn't happen in nature so if something happens in nature, it isn't really happening in nature.
      And round and round we go! Just like a merry-go-round!
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      Quote Originally Posted by Seismosaur View Post
      1. A string of letters form the english alphabet.

      2. Another string of letters from the english alphabet, this time the substrings combined in the particular order gave me the image of a Canine Vaulting a Barrier.
      1. And that's information. Because I asked you "What information do you get from this?" and you gave me the answer. That there my friend is information.

      2. Another version of information. You were able to decipher the string letters and understand the information that I gave you. That is information



      Quote Originally Posted by bluefinger View Post
      1001 1101 1010 0001 0110 1011 0010 1111 0111 1011 1101 1000

      What information did you get out of that?
      I get one's and zero's that's low context information.

      Quote Originally Posted by Sandform View Post
      Lol in other words God is the creator of information, even though he is information himself, and even if you show me something naturalistic, God still did it anyway. It doesn't happen in nature so if something happens in nature, it isn't really happening in nature.
      And once again I've been asking you guys over and over again to show high content information that happens naturally and you guys keep coming up short.

      Quote Originally Posted by bluefinger View Post
      And round and round we go! Just like a merry-go-round!
      Do you also believe that information doesn't exist?
      Last edited by Ne-yo; 06-09-2008 at 03:07 AM.

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      Quote Originally Posted by Ne-yo View Post

      And once again I've been asking you guys over and over again to show high content information that happens naturally and you guys keep coming up short.
      Well its just that the answer is DNA...and then you say well God made DNA.

      Then we say, but...DNA, and then say...but god.

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      Quote Originally Posted by Sandform View Post
      Well its just that the answer is DNA...and then you say well God made DNA.

      Then we say, but...DNA, and then say...but god.
      Okay I'll make it easy for you, let's take God out of the equation. So tell me where does DNA come from? and where did all that Good information in DNA come from. Let's just say God didn't design it, fair?

      The floor is yours and anyone else who want's a piece.

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      Where did DNA come from?

      Where do clouds come from?

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      Quote Originally Posted by Seismosaur View Post
      Where did DNA come from?

      Where do clouds come from?
      According to Ne-Yo God did it. Meanwhile, his postulation that since I can't tell him how it wasn't God that it must be God is such a common falacy I don't even feel like getting into it.
      Last edited by Sandform; 06-09-2008 at 04:26 AM.

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      Quote Originally Posted by Seismosaur View Post
      Where did DNA come from?

      Where do clouds come from?
      I would expect that from you. Answer my question with a question.

      Idiot

      Quote Originally Posted by Sandform View Post
      According to Ne-Yo God did it. Meanwhile, his postulation that since I can't tell him how it wasn't God that it must be God is such a common falacy I don't even feel like getting into it.
      I gave you an out. I said let's take God out of the equation. Give me an hypothesis or anything, any kind of idea, I'm sure you thought about this and came up with something right? An Alien, Meteorite, anything. Right now I'm not even thinking about trying the old prove to me that God doesn't exist method. I'm straight up sincere. What do you have? What idea's I'm just curious, nothing else. I promise I won't bite.

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      Quote Originally Posted by Ne-yo View Post


      I gave you an out. I said let's take God out of the equation. Give me an hypothesis or anything, any kind of idea, I'm sure you thought about this and came up with something right? An Alien, Meteorite, anything. Right now I'm not even thinking about trying the old prove to me that God doesn't exist method. I'm straight up sincere. What do you have? What idea's I'm just curious, nothing else. I promise I won't bite.
      Sorry I must have misunderstood what you said, I figured what you meant by saying take god out of the equation that you were saying, "if not God then what?" Which is in essence setting it up to say if you can't tell me what it is other than God, it must be my god.

      Anyways, regarding DNA I'm not really sure, there are many theories out there, I don't really hold one to be true, I just don't think God did it...

      One theory is that viruses played a part in it. Meanwhile you know there is evidence that under the circumstances that Earth was under many years ago the components necessary for life will form. Though the components "of" life never do.
      Though apparently some of the gases used aren't thought to have been as rich at the time life is thought to have existed anymore.

      I don't know why you should even ask me though...I'm not a biologist, chemist, or zoologist. I just don't happen to think that consciousness needs another conscious thing to create it.

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      Quote Originally Posted by Mark75 View Post
      hi
      Bye

      Quote Originally Posted by Sandform View Post
      Sorry I must have misunderstood what you said, I figured what you meant by saying take god out of the equation that you were saying, "if not God then what?" Which is in essence setting it up to say if you can't tell me what it is other than God, it must be my god.

      Anyways, regarding DNA I'm not really sure, there are many theories out there, I don't really hold one to be true, I just don't think God did it...

      One theory is that viruses played a part in it. Meanwhile you know there is evidence that under the circumstances that Earth was under many years ago the components necessary for life will form. Though the components "of" life never do.
      Though apparently some of the gases used aren't thought to have been as rich at the time life is thought to have existed anymore.

      I don't know why you should even ask me though...I'm not a biologist, chemist, or zoologist. I just don't happen to think that consciousness needs another conscious thing to create it.
      Thanks Sandform I appreciate that. I just wanted to see your thoughts on the matter. That's actually Good stuff.

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