‘A Light year is a measurement of distance and not a measurement of time!’
Of course, it is, but it gives you a glimpse of the order of magnitude of the errors they are capable of.
Hitchens had a ‘butterfly’ mind. I couldn’t listen to him waffling for long. He really
is
an educated idiot. Craig made mince-meat of him. He also made mince-meat of other professors, such as Sam Harris, who to his credit, said of Craig that if there was any Christian debater who put the fear of God up atheist debaters it was Craig. Dawkins energetically avoided him for a long time. I must look for a video of the recent encounter/debate I read was in the pipeline.
‘Non-believers mostly believe there was something before the universe to give potential to the universe,’
… and what was before that!!!! My, you’re even arguing against your own argument, and don’t realise it.
They believe in ‘
something
‘! Wow! That’ll advance human knowledge no end. That’s because atheism is a religion to its adherents. Science has always needed Christianity, since Christians have always expected to find the world to have been intelligibly designed. (No reason for atheists to, nor do they.)
It’s why there have been no great paradigm shifts since Einstein, Planck, Bohr and Godel – the giants of the last century, who all believed in Intelligent Design, because they were theists; Einstein was actually a panentheist. ‘My religion consists of a humble admiration,’ he once stated, ‘of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.’
… and:
‘The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books—-a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects.’
Listen to Craig and he’ll explain to you the error of so-called, ‘infinite regress’ you refer to – ‘turtles all the way down’. It was recently proved, not just by metaphysicians, but by scientists, that the universe
had
to have a beginning (the Big Bang, first postulated by a Belgian priest, called Lemaitre).
‘If you actually done any research you would soon realise the evolution of the eye debunks this theory as we know the stages of non-random natural selection but random mutations over generations to gradually improve the eye, the best or ‘strongest’ species survived the ‘weakest’ died out. That is exactly Darwin’s theory, again being proved by yet more evidence.’
Sheer fantasy. I dare you post that to uncommondescent.com…. They’ll swallow you whole. Don’t forget to bring up ‘the eye’ will you?
Darwinism is a dead duck. Comprehensively disproved. Well, it was never science. Speculating on a few old bones, not even knowing if they belonged to the same skeleton.
No empirical substance, whatsoever. Nothing reproducible in the laboratory. All they have is a few finches whose beaks grew to meet the demands of changes in their habitat, but no new body forms, limbs, etc, no new species. And when the habitat changed back, so did their beaks!
Bacteria? As I recall, they didn’t grow any new limbs or change to a different species. Developing resistance to drugs is very minor piffling change. ‘Evolution’ really just means development’, so the word is used by atheists to cover everything from bacterial resistance to such changes as prawns turning into elephants, or ants into whales!
Homo Erectus is bull-****. All that stuff is fantasizing on the basis of a few ill-matched bone fragments. The Piltdown Man fraud puts it in its true perspective. Nobody more gullible than people who want to believe their fantasies. As Chesterton put it:
‘When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.’
Why the origin of life requires intelligence: