Another Big Big Thread of Religious Discussion

[I_Like_Swordchucks]

Originally Posted by Serenity

How do you know I don't know everything? You don't know everything.

How do I know? By reading what you write. It doesn't take long to figure out when somebody doesn't know what they're talking about.

My shortcomings to observe the existence of an omnipotent being who wants me to know of his existence? It's not my shortcoming that's preventing me from knowing about this God bloke's existence - it's his.

Are we arguing creationism or Christianity here? Because if we're just arguing creationism, who says the Creator wants you to know of his existence? If we're arguing Christianity, the Bible makes it pretty clear that God wants you to come to him by faith.

So yeah, its your shortcoming. I'm sure you have more.

There are people out there who experience and feel that the Illuminati is secretly watching them. Do you understand that feeling something isn't actually evidence?

Hmm, having some difficulty reading, are we?

Originally Posted by Me

This isn't meant to serve as evidence to you, but I honestly couldn't care less about that.

We have. Amino adenosine triacid ester.

Which couldn't have been made initially without proteins and enzymes and all that other crap that only comes from life.

Still not coming from scratch.

And still not life.

Not to mention it only works in chloroform, which is a synthetic material.

So in short, it requires life to be made, requires an unnatural environment to work, and doesn't do anything to take away from:

Originally Posted by Me

I mean, we can split atoms, clone things, completely modify an organism's genome... yet we can't create life from scratch. What does that tell you?

Its not life, and not scratch.

I'd tell you to quit while you were ahead, but you lost that a LONG time ago.