Ok, I suppose you're also evading material questions.
It's pretty much fundamental that for any argument to withstand scrutiny the definitions of its key terms must be evaluated for consistency and correlation to reality. The fact that you can't define such a fundamental aspect of your arguments basically invalidates them all.
Well I wasn't. None of that matters anyway.
You said:
...it is coming because of the chemical properties of the molecules.
To which I responded:
No, it's coming from the physical properties of the atoms.
To which you said:
haha, you got me except you didn't. Do you think this quibble is significant? But you're wrong anyway.
(emphasis added)
And still you maintain:
So here's where you explain how I was wrong, according to you, or we'll just add this to the tally of arguments you're abandoning.
And just for fair warning I'm preparing an actual accounting of the various stupid claims and arguments you've abandoned in this thread that'll likely appear later when I have more time to finish it up.
No but that isn't relevant anyway. Way to miss the point
But of course it is! You can't model the processes of organisms using inanimate objects and expect to represent the reality of their replicative nature.
The point is the dominos fall and do what they do because of the arrangement they have been placed.
No, the point is that living things do what they do because they are alive. Dominos are not.
They don't get put into the patterns they are in the video because of the properties of the dominos.
Of course not, dominos aren't alive.
I think you realize this but can't admit you blew it.
I realize what everyone else realized ages ago: you're just talking out of your ass.
That's what we are talking about.
But you don't have any evidence that there was a "first domino" of life, so like I correctly identified, the analogy fails, so it is irrelevant.
Then they will not model living things.
Can you point to any instance where living systems, following the patterns within the constituent parts, form all on their own while not coming from other living systems?
What's a "living system" according to you? If you don't know what "life" is, you can't know what a "living system" is.
We can do that for crystals.
So what?
Nothing within the parts that make up life make them form the way they do. Period.
What's "life," according to you?
Oh that's right. You don't know.
Your idiot questioning implied that was where you were going.
Not in the slightest. You are just eager and all too accustomed to erecting strawmen.
Then your request was disingenuous.
Again, and still, this is why everyone thinks you're an asshole.
Well, hacks gonna hack. Good job hacking.
It's mildly amusing how you don't seem to realize that your persistent use of this particular
ad hominem quite transparently telegraphs your stark inability to support the very foundation of the totality of your arguments. Your lack of self-awareness is hilarious.
buckwheat:
[Outlandish claim about X]
Cerpin: Define X
buckwheat: hack hack hack hack hack
That pretty much summarizes this entire thread.
And your evidence of that is... ?
...but you are so pathetic that you have to argue is if we don't because you know you lose.
[hack hack hack hack hack]
1. There hasn't been and can't be an infinite number of moments going into the past.
Why not? How long is a "moment" according to you? You do not seem to understand the significance of the continuity of space-time.
Same reason we can't count to infinity.
Maybe you can't, but I can.
2. If there hasn't been an infinite number of moments then there can't have been an infinite number of replications of living things.
3. Since there hasn't been an infinite number of replications then life cannot have been here forever.
Too bad you haven't gotten outta the gate yet from establishing the truth of (1) above.
Not hardly. Do you think this is the first time I've seen that silly argument? Hell, I can probably find multiple occasions that I've refuted it on this very forum when it was put forth by several of the last few loons like you that we've had come through. I've been doing this a long, long time.
Most of what you are saying doesn't even address my points. Why would I defend myself from an infant intruder?
Excuses, excuses, bucky. Who do you think is buying them?
Convincing other darwinists of your delusion isn't a requirement for you to be deluded. I'm sure some of them see my point and that you are deluded to think you hadn't handed me my rear end on the addition point.
You wanna take a poll? How do you think that would turn out? To anybody reading along right here that would care to casually register their vote, I offer an open invitation.
It shows that we're not talking about a linear progression.
But you didn't say that. You said it wasn't additive
It shows that some changes will never happen, its pretty hard to add something that never happens.
Except for the fact that it doesn't show that at all. "Not all equally likely" does not entail "the likelihood of some is zero."
So if we see any species changing at all that means the features of every living thing was caused by those changes?
Nope..
Huge leap of logic there.
Huge strawman constructed out of your own stupidity.
Go back to the baby crawling to the moon.
Why? It was a shitty analogy then and its a shitty analogy now for irrefutable reasons given aplenty.
That isn't my burden. You need to show that it wouldn't.
Bull fucking shit it isn't your burden. You claim an obstacle exists, you incur the burden of supporting that claim.
You don't appear to understand that this is a selection pressure like anything else. Your argument has taken the basic form of "since some organisms experience extinction, all organisms should be extinct." In other words, it is a false generalization.
How would I put my money where my mouth is? What do you suggest?
You and I each send $500 to a third party. If I can present evidence that I am nothing like what you describe, I get the money and you never come back to the forum. If my evidence instead reveals that I resemble your description, you get the money and I never come back.
Deal?
I could be wrong but you act like a real life twerp who gets some anonymity then turns into an abusive name calling tough guy online.
Then, as with so many other things, you are a poor judge of reality.
Not as if this has anything to do with genetic copying errors and natural selection. Another red herring.
We're not talking about that, we're talking about the science of evolution, and it has everything to do with it.
So: Is it true that pluto orbits the sun? How do you know? This a test of your ability to apprehend reality, and to this point you are failing miserably.