Showing posts with label Origin of life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Origin of life. Show all posts

Saturday, 2 July 2011

More Quotes from Scientists regarding origin of life...

And yet they still claim there is no chance an Intelligent Designer created the earth? 

Dr. George Whitesides (Organic Chemist, Harvard University, highest Hirsch-index rating of any living chemist):
How? I have no idea. Based on all the chemistry I know it seems astonishingly improbable.
Dr. Chrisopher Mckay (Astrophysicist, NASA):
The origin of life remains a scientific mystery… we do not know how life originated on earth.
Dr. Werner Arber (Molecular Biologist, Nobel Prize-Medicine, 1978):
Although a biologist, I must confess that I do not know how life came about… How such already quite complex structures may have come together remains a mystery to me.
Dr. Harold P. Klein (1921-2001), Astrobiologist, NASA):
The simplest bacterium is so damn complicated from the point of view of a chemist that it is almost impossible to imagine how it happened.
Dr. Christian DeDuve (Cytologist, Biochemist, Nobel Prize-Medicine, 1974):
How this momentous event happened is still highly conjectural, though no longer purely speculative. (Wordnet Online DictionaryConjecture: (A) Noun – a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating…usually with little hard evidence. (Synonym – speculation(B)Verb-to believe on uncertain or tentative grounds (synonym – speculate)
Professor Richard Dawkins (Biologist, High Priest of Atheism in the 21st Century):
(A) Nobody knows how it happened. (Climbing Mt. Improbable) (B) “I told you I don’t know…nor does anyone else.” (From the film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed)
Etc, Etc, Etc… It is critical to note that the daunting challenges scientists face in discovering a naturalistic origin of life is not due to their ignorance about the chemistry of the simplest living organisms, it is in fact exactly the opposite. The more scientists learn about the seemingly endless layers of complexity in the simplest living cells the more vexing the puzzle becomes.

Friday, 1 July 2011

Misconceptions - Who created God?

"“Who created the creator?”  presents us with the philosophical dilemma of the infinitely regressing series of creators. Ultimately, both Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens (and perhaps Jerry Coyne also), base their denial of a Creator on the assumption that there is no answer to this question and we are therefore stuck with a naturalistic beginning. In other words, even though they admit that everything I have said up until now might be perfectly sensible or at least worthy of consideration, this particular philosophical question leaves us with no choice but to accept, that despite the utter improbability of a natural emergence of life it happened at least once because here we are. In the final analysis, the atheist denial of God is based not on science, but on philosophy. In fact, there is a rather elementary and obvious solution to the dilemma of who created the creator."


"Simply put, the philosophical dilemma of the infinitely regressing chain of creators is only applicable to a material being, not a transcendent being that exists in neither time nor space."


Source:  http://christian-apologetics.org/2011/rabbi-moshe-averick-the-theist-holds-the-intellectual-high-ground/

I'd like to refer to the Kalam Argument (William Lane Craig's version)

The Kalam Cosmological Argument:
  • Whatever begins to exist has a cause.
  • The universe began to exist.
  • Therefore, the universe has a cause.  
Something has to have caused the existence of the world! Something has to have always been there, something has to have not been created but have been there eternally and ignited the existence of everything we know and see around us.

I would suggest that a Creator God is the most sensible of any possibility for an eternal being. Having met this God personally and seen Him change my life, and the lives of people around me. I would suggest He is definitely the eternal being that put the Universe into existence.

Tuesday, 22 March 2011

Hahaha

I am throughly enjoying my new book - 'Nonsense of a High Order - The Confused and Illusory World of the Atheist' by Rabbi Moshe Averick. (I highly recommend getting this book to Christians, interested Agnostics & truth seeking Atheists alike) The ideas that people such as Dawkins & Hitchens has brought up have been condemned to the trash by Averick and I wonder if they'll ever respond to this book and would be interested if they did, for this book is very very good in its criticism and its own ideas.

One thing, at the end of a chapter, Averick linked to is this, it made me laugh!

http://www.us.net/life/

On this website they offer a prize of $50,000 a year for the next 20 years for anyone who can propose a 'highly plausible mechanism for the spontaneous rise of genetic instructions in nature sufficient to gave rise to life. To win, the explanation must be consistent with empirical biochemical, kinetic, and thermodynamic concepts...and be published in a well-respected, peer-reviewed science journal'.

No 'highly plausible' explanation has been presented for the naturalistic origin of life. The evidence all points to a supernatural creator and once Scientists stop making assumptions that there is no God and start testing assumptions like they are supposed to then maybe they will find something they didn't want to find and thought they never could.

If you do have a highly plausible explanation, go and enjoy the $50,000 a year for the next 20 years!