Comments by "pinball1970" (@pinball1970) on "PragerU" channel.

  1. +virtuoso "People need a purpose, without evolution atheists wouldn't be content." Speak for yourself, at some point I will die and will be dead forever. I am happy with the fact I am here now have people who love me care for me make time for me and I with them. That is my purpose, I want to be the best I can be have some fun and explore the universe.
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  2. +Virtuoso "Well, when given enough time evolution assumes anything can turn into anything" No! Who said that. Natural selection influences what changes take place. Natural selection is the filter and the process is slow (usually). Please read a decent book on this, a good one is "Evolution" Mark Ridley.
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  3. +Virtuoso "So, why is it paleontologists have not found transitional fossils?" I am not sure what you are asking, I dont think you want answers. Suffice to say they have found "transitional" fossils although the name is misleading. Species dont "change" they ARE. I and every single person on the planet is not going to transform in ANY way at all. We are and we are fixed now but out offspring will be different genetically that is step one, the ability to produce variant offspring, their off spring will be different again. We can go back 200,000 years or so and we are different genetically but still"human" by our definitions. Same with some other species go back one million years and things are different again. !00 million years? Any people? No? Any ancestors? yes.
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  4. +Virtuoso. Theories are not proven they are falsified. You can never prove a theory you only prove mathematical theorems, Pythagoras theorem for example, in a Euclidian universe (ie with Euclidian axioms) you can prove the theory. I stated that TOE has been verified because many attempts have been made to falsify it that is what good scientist’s do, the build a theory the attempt to falsify it. I cannot prove the moon orbits the earth but I can provide irrefutable evidence for the statement. Quantum theory makes exquisite predictions and this has been verified using many different methods. Paul Dirac’s equations predicted the existence of an impossible particle, it did not make sense at all but a few years later they found it (positron) That is what good science does, it makes good predictions. TOE does that and it one of the most tested theories in the history of science. It was discovered by a theist and no doubt most of the scientists at that time were theists.
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  5. +virtuoso "it still wouldn't change my mind" That is where we are different then, strong evidence should always make one re-think ones stance. I was a theist (christian) eventually the evidence became too strong to hold onto my stance that there was any real basis to the Bible. In terms of there being a god.
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  6. +Virtuoso "the old quantum theory was incomplete and proven to lack consistency" You have to be specific here. The ideas began with Plank and then Einstein then a plethora of other players came to the fore including Born Bohr Dirac Pauli Schrodinger and Heisenberg. We still use all of those formulae today.
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  7. +Virtuoso "Quantum theory is still vigorously debated philosophically." I will state now that I know virtually nothing about philosophy. "What is the meaning..." does not interest me.
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  8. +Virtuoso "I do sense that you take every theory completely literal and factual and if so, that is pure ignorance" If the TOE was falsified I would be very pissed off. I would have to replace all my books! I would get over it sit down and ask the question," So, how does it really work then?"
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  9. +Virtuoso There are no such things as transitional fossils why? Because every single fossil and every single living feature is transitional! Besides the fact that we do not need fossils (any at all) to verify the theory, exactly what would you expect to find? What do you need the palaeontologists to unearth to convince you? Let me try and set out what is known. Firstly there has never been an authenticated case where a fossil was found out of its evolutionary place. Not one. Every single fossil that has been found follows its predicted evolutionary pattern. Secondly there ARE transitional fossils ie those that exhibit traits from an earlier ancestor AND modern species Here are the human ones, the size and shape of the skull exhibit both ape and human features earlier forms have a small cranial volume while later have increased volume. The same with the pelvis femur and the bone at the base of the skull. These are variations between ape and men up right walking and knuckle walking large cranial volume and small. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_human_evolution_fossils
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  10. +Virtuoso Whale evolution https://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/evograms_03
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  11. +Virtuoso Hover over the names and you will the fossils https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_the_horse
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  12. +Virtuoso I really dont think Einstein was a theist, he thought the Bible was childish and was pressured about this when he went to America. Einstein is one of my heros, he should be everyones hero given what he found out about space and time. Was he spiritual? I am not sure what that means, he was a very modest man. A subtle man, complicated.
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  13. +Virtuoso Thanks you too. Being polite helps exchange ideas. Ive met some very nice people on here, many of them theists. I used to be a theist so I should try and be polite!
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  14. +Virtuoso Look up my claims on science. I will never attempt to take away the messages of Jesus away from theists. "love thy neighbour, turn the other cheek. Let he who cast the 1st stone (not Jesus but it does not matter)" We can take good messages where ever we find them. Peace.
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  15. +Virtuoso "I don't like to lose but I will humbly take a loss if I know I lost! Lol" Best way sir. You have been a gentleman and I recognize that.
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  16. +Child Boo I dont think its being smart, its where you are coming from. I was where Virtuoso was so I am giving him a hard time but trying to respect that position at the same time. Yes the NT supports the OT on many points such as slavery and Jesus never strays from this. He never says that owning a person is wrong. Problem with the portrayal of Jesus is that what Christian believe and what the historians have are two different things. I found enough to reject the notion of god. I will discuss the Bible more with virtuoso too if you want to join and raise some points? The last one you raised was very important. Its not all about the OT!
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