Open thread/Odds against evolution questions
Greetings! In response to Dan S, and with good reasons, we have an open thread. Bring up whatever topic you want to continue discussion on by either mentioning it in the comments section, or linking to this post on your blog and doing a trackback. So readers, check out the trackbacks link to see if there is anything posted, please!
By the way, concerning the Dixie Chicks, go see what they've been saying lately, it isn't just a matter of ragging on the President...."The entire country may disagree with me, but I don't understand the necessity for patriotism. Why do you have to be a patriot? About what? This land is our land? Why? You can like where you live and like your life, but as for loving the whole country... I don't see why people care about patriotism."
The Odds
I began the revisitation of the odds against evolution by presenting four areas in which the odds are stacked against evolution and looking briefly at the first two:
1-Odds against the formation of the Universe
2-Odds against the Universe and the Earth having life-allowing conditions
3-Odds against the formation of life from non-life
4-Odds against numerous complex forms arising from one simple form of life
Evolution denies the idea of a Creator God having made the heavens and the Earth and all life within it. Therefore, they need a plausible explanation for the existence of, well, existence, and then the remarkable fine-tuning required for life to be able to exist at all. I touched on that briefly and no doubt more will be said, but since I am about to hit on point three, I want to set the stage. Perhaps evolutionists can help me, perhaps we can agree on some basic points before the discussion begins?
(Commenters, remember, derision is not an argument once you have graduated kindergarten. Thanks!)
Questions for commenters
1)Do you agree that the total number of electrons in the Universe has been calculated to be 10^78 electrons?
2)Do you agree that the age of the Universe, according to long-agers, is about 13.7 Billion years?
3)Would that equate into approximately 3 x 10^16 seconds?
4)Is the minimum number of components needed for a self-replication organism equal to 500,000? Do you know of any self-replicating organisms found in nature that are less complex than this? Better question, is there any evidence that any organism has ever been as simple as 500,000 parts, or bits, or components?
5)What is the amount of information held within cellular DNA?
(1.8×10^22 bits (2.25 zettaoctets) – amount of information which can be stored in 1 gram of DNA. 6.4×10^9 bits – Capacity of the human genome, 3.2 billion base pairs (each pair counts 2 for 2 bits of data).)
Can we agree on a minimum amount of information contained within the DNA of a cell?
I await responses....
By the way, concerning the Dixie Chicks, go see what they've been saying lately, it isn't just a matter of ragging on the President...."The entire country may disagree with me, but I don't understand the necessity for patriotism. Why do you have to be a patriot? About what? This land is our land? Why? You can like where you live and like your life, but as for loving the whole country... I don't see why people care about patriotism."
The Odds
I began the revisitation of the odds against evolution by presenting four areas in which the odds are stacked against evolution and looking briefly at the first two:
1-Odds against the formation of the Universe
2-Odds against the Universe and the Earth having life-allowing conditions
3-Odds against the formation of life from non-life
4-Odds against numerous complex forms arising from one simple form of life
Evolution denies the idea of a Creator God having made the heavens and the Earth and all life within it. Therefore, they need a plausible explanation for the existence of, well, existence, and then the remarkable fine-tuning required for life to be able to exist at all. I touched on that briefly and no doubt more will be said, but since I am about to hit on point three, I want to set the stage. Perhaps evolutionists can help me, perhaps we can agree on some basic points before the discussion begins?
(Commenters, remember, derision is not an argument once you have graduated kindergarten. Thanks!)
Questions for commenters
1)Do you agree that the total number of electrons in the Universe has been calculated to be 10^78 electrons?
2)Do you agree that the age of the Universe, according to long-agers, is about 13.7 Billion years?
3)Would that equate into approximately 3 x 10^16 seconds?
4)Is the minimum number of components needed for a self-replication organism equal to 500,000? Do you know of any self-replicating organisms found in nature that are less complex than this? Better question, is there any evidence that any organism has ever been as simple as 500,000 parts, or bits, or components?
5)What is the amount of information held within cellular DNA?
(1.8×10^22 bits (2.25 zettaoctets) – amount of information which can be stored in 1 gram of DNA. 6.4×10^9 bits – Capacity of the human genome, 3.2 billion base pairs (each pair counts 2 for 2 bits of data).)
Can we agree on a minimum amount of information contained within the DNA of a cell?
I await responses....