Sherlock Holmes
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Well there was no glucose before life, that's for sure.Was there no life on earth before glucose? If so the complexity is moot, if not, where's the proof?
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Well there was no glucose before life, that's for sure.Was there no life on earth before glucose? If so the complexity is moot, if not, where's the proof?
Are you expecting every question about the world to have a scientific answer?
are you expecting every explanation to be a scientific explanation?
Scientific explanations are always reductionist in nature, some thing is explained by recourse to other constituent things. But that implies infinite regress.
So consider the question "what is the origin of the laws of nature" that's a reasonable question about the world and I expect it has an answer. But we can't develop a scientific explanation for the presence of laws of nature can we? because to do so necessitates a recourse to laws.Yes.
Yes.
Philosophy is of limited value. Much of it is mental masturbation, if you'll pardon the expression.
You're right, the question "What evolved to create life?" does not have an answer.Apparently you can’t answer.
Probably true, but not an answer to any of my actual questions.Well there was no glucose before life, that's for sure.
Yes, well I wasn't around 4 billion years ago.Probably true, but not an answer to any of my actual questions.
OK then life must have been created by an intellect.You're right, the question "What evolved to create life?" does not have an answer.
Fossils are exceedingly rare, and you literally just made my point.That's not true, fossil beds are relatively rare, but within those fossil beds also called Lagerstätte, fossils can be plentiful:
Not on the claims in his videos. Which is obviously what I both said and meant. You're not a very good faith actor in these discussions, sometimes.Tour is one of the most published scientists.
"Sudden" can mean millions of years and millions of generations.It is within these beds that we find the sudden appearance, of many shelly Cambrian fossils
With very good reason.Dawkins has over twice the number of followers as Tour, FYI
I know there are several ways. And I know you are about to arbitrarily pick one that aligns with your appeals to emotion.Do you actually know how to measure the complexity of something?
That's right. And so far there are none. Nor is any serious person looking for any, just as no serious person is trying to show the earth does not revolve about the sun.Yes until we encounter observations that are inconsistent with that assumption.
Notice the charlatan's tactics that the deniers have to use.
Monetized youtube videos to fool nonscientists.
Weasel words and half truths, like "sudden" and "Dawkins has youtube videos, too!"
Outright falsehoods, like claiming fossils aren't rare. Like claiming that we can't find ancestors in the fossil record of the species that arose during the Cambrian.
People who have all the good arguments and evidence don't need to resort to such dimestore, dishonest charlatan's tactics.
You made your choices.
But anybody reading that technical article will already have possession of the context.
Only a few years ago it was consensus that there was no proof of Fermat's last theorem, remember that.And again, Dawkins is not making monetized videos to dispute scientific consensus
I know it means millions of years, around ten in fact, I knew that why didn't you?But anybody reading that technical article will already have possession of the context.
You omitted the context to foment your specious appeal to emotion.
Doctor Briggs would pause you and remind you. That "sudden" can mean millions of years and millions of generations.
Irrelevant.Only a few years ago it was consensus that there was no proof of Fermat's last theorem, remember that.
I actually had to Point out your cheap tactics by reminding you.I know it means millions of years, around ten in fact, I knew that why didn't you?