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Originally posted by Byrd
Except, there's a FOURTH possibility you haven't considered and that needs mentioning: Man did it to himself.
Hold your horses a bit -- "civilization" means "living in cities." It does NOT mean lack of culture, social groups, tribes, or clothing, technology, sophisticated relationships, and rules.
But nature alone didn't do it to us. WE did it to ourselves, creating rules and "jobs" so that we could live in large groups in an area with poorer or changed resources.
Originally posted by NewAgeMan
reply to post by SLAYER69
I've concluded that life on earth including the evolution of mankind has occurred by intelligent design, in particular as it relates to the moon-earth-sun relationship, and that while ancient aliens may have played a role as change agents, nevertheless, the only conclusion that I can draw since these things involve origins going all the way back to the very origin of our solar system, by design, that the God hypothesis is the best one.
For more, check this out.
Moon-Seed by Intelligent Design
Originally posted by NewAgeMan
reply to post by SLAYER69
If the Earth-Moon-Sun relationship is by-design and geared towards life on earth, including the evolution of the human being, then you're mistaken to simply say that it's all natural based on mere random selection alone.
I believe there is a creator, and I think this concept is hard to grasp for many because they restrict their concept of "God" to what they know about religion.
Originally posted by SLAYER69
Originally posted by NewAgeMan
reply to post by SLAYER69
If the Earth-Moon-Sun relationship is by-design and geared towards life on earth, including the evolution of the human being, then you're mistaken to simply say that it's all natural based on mere random selection alone.
How can one be mistaken when one asks questions and requests others to post their opinions and input?
It seems you've left out the other two options I've mentioned God or ET.
So....
The first reason is that the claim that the majority of our DNA is "junk" has long been used by ID critics as an objection to design: Why would a designer fill our chromosomes with so much redundancy? That would be surprising given the hypothesis of design but would make perfect sense under a Darwinian framework, where such sequences can be understood to be "the remains of nature's experiments which failed" (Ohno, 1972). So, while these findings do not necessarily support ID or discredit Darwinism, they answer an often-heard criticism of the design hypothesis.
The second reason is that this news demonstrates the greater heuristic value of ID relative to evolutionary naturalism. While the notion that life is the product of an entirely blind and unguided natural process fits well with the observation that a lot of our DNA is without function, the hypothesis of design expects that we will find engineering purposes wherever we look in the cell. While the paradigm of evolutionary naturalism discourages and hinders the search for function, the ID paradigm actively encourages it.
Thirdly, shared "junk DNA" has often been alleged to offer compelling evidence for common descent. But if these non-coding sequences are, in fact, functional, then why can these shared sequences not be explained just as readily by common design?
Finally, the prized 98% sequence-identify figure between humans and chimpanzees relates to the 2% of DNA that codes for the production of proteins. The non-protein-coding regions of DNA are far more species-specific. If these stretches of non-coding DNA really are functional, then what becomes of this sequence-identity figure and its significance with respect to shared ancestry?
Originally posted by NewAgeMan
I simply wish to bring to the debate the notion that the earth-moon-sun relationship and coincidence factors prove intelligent design and nullify any sort of Strong Anthropic Principal which claim the data to be meaningless simply on the basis that if it wasn't the way it is, we wouldn't be here to make such observations which is a stupid and unscientific argument.
Originally posted by Byrd
Originally posted by lookingfortruth79
If the concept on one "God" is correct then why didn't we start out that way?
From what we've learned from the oldest UNchanged social groups (the nomads of the Kalahari, the Bushmen, etc) the idea of a "god" also came later. Early people seem to be "animists" -- they believe all things have spirits and some spirits are more powerful than others, but the idea of spirit reflects nature that they see.
In other words, in the desert, there isn't one giant unique animal that is the ruler of every single animal out there. There are powerful animals that rule or dominate their own kind, but no one Grand Zookeeper.
Originally posted by SLAYER69
Originally posted by NewAgeMan
I simply wish to bring to the debate the notion that the earth-moon-sun relationship and coincidence factors prove intelligent design and nullify any sort of Strong Anthropic Principal which claim the data to be meaningless simply on the basis that if it wasn't the way it is, we wouldn't be here to make such observations which is a stupid and unscientific argument.
The problem with that is that some will argue that the moon wasn't always the distance from the Earth it is presently.
NASA and other scientific institutes have proven that the moon is slowly drifting away from the Earth. So, in the past it was much closer than it is now. In the future it will be farther away. Both periods, in the past and in the future, it will no longer be that unique "Fit" as it is now.
One could argue that we are a result of that unique fit with all the contributing factors outlined in their arguments and not proof of anything other than a period of transition from being closer to being farther away. Is it proof of a Divine entity or simply a major contributing factor to our existence?
Are we simply a result of it's unique fit/position and are able to contemplate that fact?
Originally posted by NewAgeMan
That is part of the argument for intelligent design in the sense that the moon needed to be closer in ancient earth history to drive the process of evolution - think major tidal forces drawing salt water into inland pools leading to the dissolution and reintegration of DNA recombinations. The most intriguing aspect however is that the moon perfectly eclipses the sun only at the stage where man stands at the apex of evolution as an observer, to bear witness to the coincidence, which doesn't end with the eclipse.
The most intriguing aspect however is that the moon perfectly eclipses the sun only at the stage where man stands at the apex of evolution as an observer, to bear witness to the coincidence, w
Originally posted by SLAYER69
Originally posted by NewAgeMan
That is part of the argument for intelligent design in the sense that the moon needed to be closer in ancient earth history to drive the process of evolution - think major tidal forces drawing salt water into inland pools leading to the dissolution and reintegration of DNA recombinations. The most intriguing aspect however is that the moon perfectly eclipses the sun only at the stage where man stands at the apex of evolution as an observer, to bear witness to the coincidence, which doesn't end with the eclipse.
If "God" is infinite and all powerful could he have not set all this in motion on his timescale so as man's rise would be because of these planetary bodies moving as he set in motion?
I think for those who would argue the "God" aspect should expand their views of his abilities imho, they refer to God as being all powerful and infinite. Yet can't seem to attribute those abilities to his time frame and unitizing the Universe he has created.