2012-03-14, 01:09 PM
Sardines Wrote:So your little sister doesn't believe this?There are some people that believe in microevolution but not macroevolution, oddly enough.
Personally, I find this silly since the former, with enough time, results in the latter.
Polantaris Wrote:I have a question for people who believe this though: If that is true...who then created this God? You want me to believe it just popped into existence out of no where and decided to screw around with some stuff? If it's not possible for us, why is it possible for another entity?"Who created God?" is a dumb question and always will be. See, it ignores the fact that, regardless of how you believe the universe and, eventually, life came into being, you damn well have to believe that there are certain things that simply existed.
For example, matter.
There will always be a "well, what came before that?" that will probably never be answered.
Your last question is rather asinine. Are you seriously asking why we can't simply will ourselves to exist as if it were a matter of choice?
Polantaris Wrote:For all those posts about very slim chances that our race could have evolved out of mere chance: Well think about this; how many hundreds of millions of planets are there? There's a lot. If the chances of sentient life being created was high, there would be other races all over the place. We'd be seeing space ships, at the very least when we're looking around with telescopes and what not. If the chances were high, at some point we would have run into another species by now, considering that we ourselves have space travel (in a very limited form, granted). If you want to consider those numbers true, it's quite possible that we're one of the lucky races that passes evolution's test. It's not like there's 3 planets in the entire universe and this one has sentient life. There's (seemingly) unlimited amounts of planets. Unlimited trails for evolution. We're just really really really lucky.That's all utterly horrible speculation; far too many assumptions.
Namely, the one where you seem to equate sentience to sapience.
Then you assume that intelligent life would inevitably aim for the stars.
You also have a remarkably flawed understanding about exactly how big space is.
Alloy Wrote:To anyone saying that life popping out is stadistically almost impossible.That was the most nonsensical post I've seen in a while.
Do you know what would have happened if it didn't happen here?
We wouldn't be discussing this. But any other lucky ones that actually "happened", most likely would.
Your argument against people saying life "popping out" is statistically impossible is that, if we weren't alive, we wouldn't be able to talk about it? Hurrwhat?
Seriously people, I'm all for clarifying that evolution is an inarguable fact, but some of you have the most ridiculous justifications for believing it.

