Then defend it... I say that there is no way that a random chance process could have formed life forming proteins and DNA with their unique chirality. If proteins and DNA were formed by chance each and every one of the components would be a 50/50 mixture of the two optical isomers. This is not what we see in natural proteins or in natural DNA. How can a random chance natural process create proteins with thousands of "L" molecules, and then also create DNA with billions of "R" molecules? Does this sound like random chance or a product of design? Even if
there were a magic process to introduce chirality, it would only create one isomer. If such a process existed, we do not know anything about it or how it would work. If it did exist, how were compounds with the other chirality ever formed? Even if there were two magical processes, one for each isomer, what determined which process was used and when it was used, if this was a random chance natural process? The idea of two processes requires a controlling mechanism, and this kind of control is not possible in a random chance natural process.
You are an intelligent man alot smarter than a mere theist so I don't think I need to explain chirality more thoroughly. You just need to defend your statement... Too bad you can't now that you have this informant ion..... Jim
2006-11-28 14:20:53
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answered by Anonymous
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It depends on what you mean by Atheism. There are two types: Strong atheism - the belief that you can disprove god - and Weak Atheism - the belief that you don't have to disprove god, just find the case for god unconvincing. I think that weak atheism is true, because you can not prove a negative and atheism is a negative. So you can not prove there is NOT a god, just like you can not prove there is NOT a tea pot floating around the sun. So the strong atheist will use something like the argument from evil to prove god does NOT exist, but the theist will always have an ad hoc answer, just like if you tried to prove there was not a tea pot floating around the sun, I could come up with an endless amount of ad hoc answers to defend the idea that there is a tea pot floating around the sun...what's that? You have a million telescopes video taping the sun from all angles and the tea pot doesn't show up? Well, how do you know that it doesn't have some sort of cloaking device? The important thing to remember is that the burden of proof is on the person who asserts the positive, so the burden of proof rests with the theist and the person who believes there is a teapot floating around the sun. And I can't go through all of them now, but all the theist arguments are fallacious and not convincing. But weak atheism and agnosticism (the claim not to know if there is a god or not) sometimes are regarded as pretty much the same thing, but I prefer the term atheist, because agnosticism has the connotation that the two ideas are on equal footing. So the short answer is...yeah, sure.
2006-11-29 00:55:18
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answered by humorist_4_u 3
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God's fingerprints are everywhere. He's like the wind. You can't see the wind, but you can see the leaves on the trees move as the wind moves. That's how you know God has been somewhere. People's lives are changed dramatically, miracles, things that have no other explanation than it was God.
Detectives use fingerprints as evidence for proof that someone was there, or if the perpetrator left something behind. God has left so much behind for us to see.
If you went to a remote planet way out in outer space and found a tic tac toe game etched in the dirt you would know that something with intelligence had been there. What are the chances that the wind currants or ground movements would produce a tic tac toe game, even thogh it's a simple design. The universe is the most complex machine ever made the way everything works together; the rotation and revolutions of the planets, gravity, the perfect distance between eveything. The earth itself... how everything works together in it is amazing. A flower can't exist without bees and bees can't exist without flowers. They each can only exist together. one couldn't have waited for the other to evolve.
My point is an intelligent designer. You have to at least wonder a little bit. You can't be absolutely sure there is no God. I would say people are more likely to be agnostics than atheists.
2006-11-28 22:34:34
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answered by ? 5
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truth of what? What I wonder about atheism (I am polytheistic myself) is if it is really possible. Why would a person be good if there were no consequences afterwards? I think that everyone needs a reason to live morally or we would fall into anarchy (with the current US government, it wouldn't be a bad idea) and probably fall into warring ruins. As as atheist- why do you act morally?
What about ghosts/ paranormal etc? Believe or disbelieve? My mom works in a hospital ICU and has seen way too many different instances (that the patient should not have seen) for me not to believe it.
As for truth- you can not prove there is no god, just as no religion can prove that their god (s) truly exist. So therefore, it would not be truth, just as much as saying there is a god would not be truth.
Hope that worked for comments- I love theological debates, as long as it is not with christian fanatics- those debates get no where.
2006-11-28 22:17:52
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answered by D 7
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No. Atheism is a belief that no god exists. As far as truth goes...who the h... knows??
2006-11-28 22:14:02
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answered by Anonymous
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No. Atheism is doubt turned into disbelief. Religions claim truths.
2006-11-28 22:13:52
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answered by Hateful Atheist 3
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You have the right to your opinion. Frankly, I'd rather be a believer on earth and find out I was wrong, than not to believe and find out I was wrong when I met God after death. God has helped me through many bad times. He's brought me back from death twice. You will never convince me HE isn't here with us. The world has too much order to be random.
2006-11-28 22:16:54
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answered by Wiser1 6
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Truth that changed to fit society. Thats not real truth.
2006-11-28 22:13:16
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answered by Anonymous
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No, I couldn't agree with that; isn't that the same as saying religion is truth? Which by the way I would also not agree with
2006-11-28 22:12:50
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answered by Anonymous
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As proven by whom?
Atheism is the total and complete denial of not only truth but faith.
2006-11-28 22:13:17
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answered by Pamela 5
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