Recent content by Quicksand

It's not a false dichotomy because I allow for all other explanations when I leave open any definitions that would like to enter when I say "or there isn't". Either teleology exists in biological organisms, or it doesn't. If there is a third possibility, I'd like to know it. I'm not using it...

Since I took so long to respond to snex, I'll just keep the topic on track and tie in my response since it relates to the current topic anyways. Yes, things that are supernatural are unscientific since we have absolutely no way of reliably measuring the supernatural since by definition...

Because the capacity to exercise omniscience need not be in effect all the time.

Sorry, I have a hard time keeping track of all the people I'm trying to respond to and I've also been too busy to give any thought to a response, so I'll just give you this quick blurb in the mean time. :psycho: The word supernatural pretty much defines itself. Something that is outside of...

I'm not debating ID vs. evolution at all. I fully accept evolution and it isn't at odds at all with ID. ID is at odds against scientific naturalism. The problem with ID is that the ones trying to push it into schools are the ones who are going against well founded scientific fact. There are the...

Is someone who has the capacity to bench press 750 lbs weak because he decides only do bench press 225? No he isn't. Just because he chooses to bench press 225 doesn't mean he can't do 750. He's still strong. I'm guessing you didn't read my post, because I explained how hell is not a place...

Okay fine, give me a plausible evolutionary pathway for a primitive reptilian inner ear to human. It's not impossible to consider a scenario where you have never seen a spear. If you had never seen one you would know that a natural cause could not produce it because natural causes are...

God does not send anyone to hell (if by hell you mean an eternity of fiery torment). The Bible states that all living creatures are souls (Gen 1:20, 21), and that the soul dies at the death of the body, and that the wicked along with the righteous souls goto hell (hebrew - sheol, greek - hades)...

Nope, sorry. It's "Thou shalt not ratsach." Ratsach is the Hebrew word for manslaughter or murder, or as Hebrew lexicon John Parkhurst says "in the Bible, ratsahh denotes manslaughter or murder, i.e. either the accidental or wilful taking away of a man’s life". This is different than the word...

I'm not claiming that skeletal structures can't change at all. I'm saying that for natural selection to be able to select the skeletal structural change is far out of the reach of mere chance because several mutations are required to make the change useful at all. So let's say you have no...

God tells us not to murder, killing and murder are two different things. Murder denotes the unjust taking of life.

The onus is on you. it absolutely does not show that teleology does not exist in living things. teleology exists in plenty of things that arent IC, like arrowheads. if teleology exists in arrowheads, it can exist in life even if life isnt IC. so you still havent been able to provide a way to...

Uhh, fossils show no such thing, which is my entire point. The fossil record highly ambiguous and extremely varying interpretations abound (as per usual) when it comes to the evolution of the inner ear. It falsifies it because it shows that teleology does not exist in living things, therefore...

Well duh? We know that the inner ear evolved, the whole point is that it's impossible through merely natural selection and mutations alone. Your reading comprehension fails again. I said that if it did happen, then it would falsify intelligent design. I never claimed if it didn't grow it would...

Because they aren't worth noting and are nothing more than speculation that begs the question. I already did. Rocks don't come out of thin air. :bee: I didn't give you an answer because your doing nothing more than baiting me away from the main topic...