The Computer Wizard wrote:Oxygen has many of the same properties of God, you cant smell it, touch it, taste it or hear it, but does that mean it is not there? Of course it is there.
Oxygen is detectable in chemical reactions. It's not hard to perform an experiment where you use electrolysis to separate water into hydrogen and oxygen, leaving you with pure oxygen. Get it in a test tube and stick a flaming match into the test tube, and the flame will amplify because oxygen is inflammable. So clearly there is an element which is part of water, is inflammable, is different from simple air, and is a gas at room temperature. We call it oxygen.
Provide a similar experiment that can be used to verify the existence of God with the properties given to him by the Christian religion (omnipotence, omnibenevolence, omniscience, answering prayers, and so on).
Oxygen and God are not even roughly comparable.
The only way that you can know that there is no God is to know everything about everything, which would *make* you omnipotent, and if you know everything, then that would make you God.
Do we need to know everything to know that there are no unicorns too? How about other gods? Must I be omniscient to say that there is no such god as Zeus?
Lianardo Da'Vinci once was quoted as saying, "In the absense of evidence of any other sort [the Bible and general nature] my thumb alone would convince me of a creator.
Appeal to misspelled authority. Da Vinci may have been an intelligent guy, but he didn't know a damn thing about evolution, which provides a much better explanation of biological complexity than creationism.
Macro Evolution
Micro Evolution
Look these terms up in your dictionary, one is how plants and animals change to fit a situation or circumstance, and one is how a rock evolves into a rose.
Leaving aside the ludicrous idea that a rock evolves into a rose, macroevolution and microevolution are really the same thing. Macroevolution is nothing more or less than many generations of cumulative microevolution.