Post by AndrewPost by h***@gmail.comPost by GordonPost by RalphPost by Andrew"All *life forms* definitely must have an enormous amount
of information to keep all their structures functioning."
~ Vincent Maycock
1. No information can exist without a code.
2. No code can exist without a free and deliberate convention.
statistics, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and apobetics.
4. No information can exist in purely statistical processes.
5. No information can exist without a transmitter.
6. No information chain can exist without a mental origin.
7. No information can exist without an initial mental source;
that is, information is, by its nature, a mental and not a material quantity.
8. No information can exist without a will.
These theorems are similar to the laws of gravity and the laws of
thermodynamics, in that no counterexample has 'ever' been found.
Now please answer my question. Can you explain the *origin* of
biological information apart from a creation by a super intelligent
Creator?
Absolutely no way.
Then for the honest in heart the debate is over, and atheism is dead.
Can you explain the creation of the creator? No? Game over and
Christianity and all other religions are dead.
The human mind couldn't comprehend the creation of the Creator even
if it could somehow be put into words.
So far as we know it, human mind is the most intelligent tool that the
universe has.
"The human brain is the most complex and orderly organization
of matter in the universe." ~ Isaac Asimov
"The human brain is a network of 10^ 11 neurons with 10^15
connections, making it the most complex system in the universe."
http://krieger.jhu.edu/mbi/research/
"The human brain has 100 billion neurons, each neuron connected
to 10 thousand other neurons. Sitting on your shoulders is the most
complicated object in the known universe." ~ Michio Kaku
Please note that the information processing activity in this vast neural
network gives rise to perception, memory, abstract thought, complex
behavior, and love. Which is more powerful evidence for creation by
a most awesome Creator, since there is no evolutionary pathway for
the existence of such a complex organ.
Yet the layering of more advanced cognitive parts of the brain on more
primitive parts leads to a real, and increasingly well-understood,
conflict between the older, more instinct-based parts of the brain with
much more recent, more analytical parts. When life events do not require
instant response to danger, food or sex drives, the newer parts are more
important in decision making and thinking.
When they do, the reptilian brain kicks into dominance, and you get
fight-or-flight or eat-right-now or fuck-this-very-minute responses.
Advertisers, religious leaders and politicians take advantage of this
older, more primitive and more powerful brain to override conscious
thought with, mostly, fear.
This results in people making logical, reasoned decisions when accurate,
unbiased and relatively comprehensive information is made available to
it, and emotional triggers are not strong enough to override clear,
logical thought. Fine and dandy.
But when emotions are triggered. as with hair-on-fire political
propaganda and religious fear/reward speech, the reptilian brain
overrides and/or co-opts rational thought to make us do silly, even
self-destructive things.
As when people buy into the 'worship this particular god or burn forever
in my god's special eternal bad place'. This is extremely convincing for
those who have come to believe in the propaganda, but is totally
unconvincing for anyone who does not. Do you fear damnation to the
Muslim hell? No? Why not? More than a billion Muslims do. So you aren't
moved by arguments Muslims make based on fear and offers of reward.
Yet you are so convinced that *your* version of reward/punishment is
true that you even use the threat/promise of it on anyone who doesn't
share your faith. Case in point: quoting the bible to atheists.
You won't get it because your reptilian brain is programmed to go into
deny-and-fight overdrive at the thought you might be wrong. Thus, your
posting history here. But you've decided, either out of sincere desire
to save us or a cynical desire to fuck with us, that your best course of
action on aa is to spout shit you should know is as toothless for us as
Islamic theology is for you.
So, yeah, the human brain is complex and wonderful. But its the result
of evolution, not the creation of an omnipotent, omniscient, all-good god.