To clear up errors with atheists

Hey, I am trey, I have no problems with atheist, I just want to clear things with them ( this is optional)

     I made a list of proof that god exist
  1. “god” means “creator of the physical universe.”
  2. Time passes, from the past, into the present, and on to the future.
  3. The past was either finite or infinite in duration. That is, the amount of seconds, days, years, etc. Before the present moment (day, year…) must have been either infinite or finite in number.
  4. History has its end in the present. (the future is not history.) so if the past was of infinite duration, an infinity came to its end. But this is a self-contradiction.
  5. Therefore, the universe did not have an infinitely long past; but a past of finite length. Therefore, it had a beginning.
  6. The universe was created.
  7. A creator of the universe, god, exists.

But that is not all, I will give scientific knowledge:

Here is the origin of life :

Here is the origin of life Origin of life research tends to fall into either of two camps. The first experiments done by stanley miller in 1953 demonstrated that mixtures of reducing gases, thought to be present in the primordial earth, when subjected to electrical discharges, produced many organic compounds, including several amino acids. Such experiments suggested that the components of living organisms might have arisen naturalistically on earth. Subsequent research revealed that miller used the wrong gases, but origin of life research was off and running. When researchers ran into the problem of how these cellular building blocks might be organized, it was suggested that a replicator was first required. However, since dna (the current reigning replicator) requires an extensive array of protein components in order to replicate, it was hypothesized that rna coudl catalyze its own replication, resulting in the “rna world” hypothesis. Replicator-first problems In 2007, robert shapiro wrote a scathing critique of the rna world hypothesis for scientific american.1 shapiro pointed out that miller’s spark experiment produced amino acids and tars, but no nucleoside rna bases. Scientists soon were using purified chemicals in highly contrived conditions, with shapiro noting that “kilograms of starting material were required to produce milligrams of product.” shapiro also indicated that some experiments required that a large lagoon be dried to the size of a puddle without the loss of any starting material, even though no such features exist on earth today. In addition, most reactions produce products that are inherently unstable, decomposing within a short period of time to unusable products. Because of the enormous problems associated with the spontaneous synthesis of rna, some researchers have opted for a pre-rna world, in which smaller molecules substitute for rna. However, none of the proposed compounds have ever been shown to be able to catalyze their own synthesis. In addition, numerous spontaneously-produced inhibitors block pre-biotic chemistry, requiring the use of purified compounds. Shapiro concluded that “the majority of origin-of-life scientists who still support the rna-first theory either accept this concept (implicitly, if not explicitly) or feel that the immensely unfavorable odds were simply overcome by good luck.” More examples of why replicator-first scenarios are unlikely can be found below. Metabolism-first problems Shapiro’s critique of replicator-first hypotheses included a discussion of how a metabolism-first mechanism might have produced the first living organisms. Although some of the starting materials are simpler, the process requires many more steps, including:

  1. A boundary - some kind of primitive membrane to separate living from non-living components.
  2. An energy source - usually some kind of oxidation-reduction system, which could be organic or mineral-based.
  3. A coupling mechanism - so that energy can be used for a useful purpose or in reproduction.
  4. A chemical network - some kind of metabolic pathway.
  5. The network must grow and reproduce. - at some point a replicator needs to be invented. Leslie orgel’s rebuttal Shapiro’s description contained a wealth of generalities, but no specifics or a discussion of the numerous problems associated with metabolism-first origin of life scenarios. During 2007, until his death in october, leslie orgel wrote a rebuttal to the metabolism-first hypothesis, published posthumously in 2008.2 in his article, orgel examined various metabolic pathways to determine if it were feasible that such pathways could have operated in pre-biotic environments. Carbon fixation In order for living organisms to exist, they must be able to fix carbon from the environment into organic molecules. For the reverse citric acid cycle, although no specific mineral catalytic agents have been identified, it is possible that such catalysts might exist. However, specific reactions of the cycle would be problematic. The uncatalyzed reaction that converts malic acid to fumaric acid are extremely slow, with a half-life of 10,000 years. The reaction of pyruvic acid and α-ketoglutaric acid to produce oxaloacetic acid is energy requiring, so that the reverse reaction is thermodynamically favored. So, an additional energy-producing reaction would need to be coupled to the reaction. However, a possible coupling of the hydrolysis of an inorganic pyrophosphate or polyphosphate would require an additional catalyst or else the introduction of phosphate groups globally would destroy the cycle. Reactions producing pyruvic acid from acetic acid and α-ketoglutaric acid from succinic acid are extremely unfavorable using carbon dioxide as the carbon source. Orgel suggested that carbon monoxide might make a better carbon source, without acknowledging that this source would be very limited on the prebiotic earth. However, the main problem in running the reverse citric acid cycle is the existence of side reactions that would disrupt the cycle. The splitting of isocitric acid to succinic acid and glyoxylic acid, would return succinic acid to the cycle, reducing its efficiency because some of the acetate or oxaloacetate would be shunted to glyoxylic acid. Likewise, the splitting of malic acid to glyoxylic acid and acetic acid would return acetic acid to the cycle. Another side reaction involves reductive carboxylation reactions, which would be expected to accept malic acid instead of acetic and succinic acids, which would move reactants irreversibly out of the cycle. Another problem is that specific catalysts would be required for the reduction of oxaloacetic acid, oxalosuccinic acid, and fumaric acid, since non-specific catalysts would also reduce pyruvic acid and α-ketoglutaric acid, disrupting the cycle. Orgel comments, “it is likely that such catalysts could be constructed by a skilled synthetic chemist, but questionable that they could be found among naturally occurring minerals or prebiotic organic molecules.” carboxylation reactions would also require specific catalysts to prevent the diversion of acetate to malonate. Likewise, the citrate lyase reaction would require specific catalysts, since the conversion of a carboxylic acid group to a thioester would occur with nearly all molecules involved in the reverse citric acid cycle, leading to destructive side reactions. The requirement of multiple, specific mineral catalysts at exactly the same location seems implausible to orgel, who says, “it is not completely impossible that sufficiently specific mineral catalysts exist for each of the reactions of the reverse citric acid cycle, but the chance of a full set of such catalysts occurring at a single locality on the primitive earth in the absence of catalysts for disruptive side reactions seems remote in the extreme.” The three other carbon fixation pathways, the calvin cycle, the hydroxypropionate cycle, and the reductive acetyl-coa linear pathway, suffer from similar problems of disruptive side reactions in the absence of specific catalysts. Some scientists are so enamored with biological evolution that they propose that cycles of reactions can evolve independently of a replicator. According to dr. Orgel, “the scheme should not make unreasonable demands on the efficiency and specificity of the various external and internally generated catalysts that are supposed to be involved. Without such a description, acceptance of the possibility of complex nonenzymatic cyclic organizations that are capable of evolution can only be based on faith, a notoriously dangerous route to scientific progress.” Peptide cycles Stuart kauffman has proposed that prebiotic amino acids self-assembled to form catalytic peptides that have auto-catalytic properties.3 in theory, these peptides would be self-reproducing and could produce a complete cycle that could be used to fix carbon. Some of the theory has been reproduced in the laboratory. Certain designed 32-mer peptides have been shown to catalyze the addition of amino acids. However, the problem is that there is no way to get peptides of that length through pre-biotic chemistry. Orgel says, “ghadiri’s experiments illustrate ‘intelligent design’ of input peptides, not spontaneous self-organization of polymerizing amino acids”, with “intelligent design” being an obvious, though accurate, slam on what was actually shown experimentally. Unfortunately, there were no organic chemists present on the prebiotic earth, unless one wants to consider the ultimate intelligent designer. Orgel explained that the discrimination and catalytic abilities of 10-mer or smaller peptides would not be sufficient to produce any kind of self-reproducing cycle. Catalytic enzymes are 100-mer to 1000-mer in order to specify their remarkably-specific catalytic ability. Small peptides do not form the stable three-dimensional structures required to consistently maintain any kind of catalytic activity. Even most larger enzymes do not spontaneously form the proper three-dimensional structure, but must be specifically folded by specialized macromolecular machines. Orgel’s conclusions Leslie orgel ends his attack on metabolism-first hypotheses with an admission that replicator-first theories are deeply flawed, but that metabolism-first scenarios are no less flawed, but “must stand on their own”: “the most serious challenge to proponents of metabolic cycle theories—the problems presented by the lack of specificity of most nonenzymatic catalysts—has, in general, not been appreciated. If it has, it has been ignored. Theories of the origin of life based on metabolic cycles cannot be justified by the inadequacy of competing theories: they must stand on their own.” Orgel’s last sentence is quite amusing: “however, solutions offered by supporters of geneticist or metabolist scenarios that are dependent on ‘if pigs could fly’ hypothetical chemistry are unlikely to help.” The origin of life wars are in full swing as proponents of each hypothesis, replicator-first and metabolism-first theories, show how each other’s theories cannot possibly work on the prebiotic earth. All current data indicates that the origin of life is extremely unlikely to have occurred through prebiotic chemistry on the early earth. It was this realization, that convinced me that there must have been an intelligent creator who made the first life on earth - changing my worldview from atheism to deism. Even after all those years, the evidence in favor of a naturalistic origin of life has not significantly improved.
Answer #1

“””Subsequent research revealed that miller used the wrong gases, but origin of life research was off and running.”””

Really? Can I have some documented names and research findings so I KNOW that this “Subsequent research” wasn’t done by home schooled 10 year olds?

“””shapiro also indicated that some experiments required that a large lagoon be dried to the size of a puddle without the loss of any starting material, even though no such features exist on earth today.”””

NO WAY!! Are you saying that the earth is different than it was 4 billion years ago? The fact that there aren’t any dinosaurs on your block didn’t clue you in?

  1. A boundary - some kind of primitive membrane to separate living from non-living components.
  2. An energy source - usually some kind of oxidation-reduction system, which could be organic or mineral-based.
  3. A coupling mechanism - so that energy can be used for a useful purpose or in reproduction.
  4. A chemical network - some kind of metabolic pathway.
  5. The network must grow and reproduce. - at some point a replicator needs to be invented

I love your usage of words, but what’s missing is common sense. Obviously, we could never be able to hazard a guess as to what conditions and environment are needed to create life, SUBSTANTIAL LIFE, and sustain it…because 4.5 billion years ago, the earth was NOTHING like it is today. But, what we know is that we are here. We know that evolution is real, because we have documented, first hand knowledge of it…species separated by geography become 2 distinct species- we’ve watched it happen, we’ve seen it happen.

Answer #2

Fantabulous ;)

Now, given translation errors (there are MANY, even if you translate from two modern languages, that do NOT carry the same meaning) in EVERY major religious text…

…sure, there is a hypothosis there to support the notion of a “divine creator”. However, all divine creators (God, Allah, Jehovah, Yaweh, etc) from the “west” have lead to the biggest slaughters of foreign & indegenous people’s in history.

Swith your perspective for just a moment (yep, you’re in the US, you decended from some European people who lost their history, just as the indiginous people in the US lost their history through conquest).

Look over at the “eastern” countries. Yes, those who can trace their religious roots as far as the Torah (you know, that thing the Bible is based on). Note the unusual way their religions spread: they didn’t wipe out the native belief systems!

It’s only those belief systems based on the Torah who use their world view to stamp out others. You don’t find this quirk in shinto, you don’t find it in Hindi, and you don’t find it in Confucious or Buddha.

So we’re back to the “might makes right” theory of religion. Ugh. Is your god so evil?

Just because you come from “the west” you have to hate on “non believers” and, again upholding the tradition of the conqueror, try to force your believe on others, the way that the belief you embrace was forced on your ancestors?

That’s not faith. That’s mental rape.

Answer #3

your just changing the question in all honesty. which came first the chicken or the egg that all your theory really asks in a way.. if god came first then where did he come from.. and if no were, why cant you just cut the “creator” out of the equation since a=b b=c a=c…

Answer #4

Where did you copy paste that from?

I saw no evidence that god exists in that whole fuc*ing novel that you just wrote… Only you repeating what your beliefs are…

Answer #5

I SHOULDN’T HAVE MADE THAT APPROACH, BELIEVE W/E YOU WANT, I JUST WANTED TO MAKE A POINT. AND IF YOU POST AN ANSWER, PLEASE DON’T BE RUDE ABOUT IT

Answer #6

I have a similar list:

  1. The past might be finite and no god was involved
  2. The past might be infinite and no god was involved

…sorry my list only has 2 points instead of 7.

Answer #7

Dear standupguy, If you want to argue with an athiest he could probably prove that the earth is flat, or maybe the universe is like a big orange. If you really want to believe in God you can, it’s really not that hard.

Answer #8

Oaky, I have a question concerning this: The Bible says that there is as god, right? Now, just think for a second, wasn’t the bible written by the same people who originally said that the Earth was flat?

Answer #9

I believe in God

Answer #10

Despite all this, I commend you for having faith. Faith helps you wake up in the morning, and helps you understand the WHY behind the wold. It cradles you, it rocks to sleep, and in your last moments of life, it warms you against the chill of death.

I am different. I need no help, I don’t need to know WHY, and I sleep just fine at night.

In other words, I don’t need a crutch to help me live my life.

I’m an animal, and just as beastly and primitive as the next man/monkey.

You keep to your world, I’ll keep to reality.

Answer #11

Infinity (like a “”creator””) is another concept that cannot be proven nor disproven. “”Time”” and “”the past”” are different. Tomorrow will add today to the past, so it isn’t so finite. Heck, the next second(the future) adds the present second to the past! (confused yet?)

So you see, you’re just babbling on terminology.

And I’m not even going into depth on your copy and paste of “”the orgin of life””. That is a conclusion and opinion of someone, not proven scientific evidence or fact.

xox Sika

Answer #12

Thanks for the huge laugh. I need to laugh more often.

Answer #13

STANDUPGUY = nothing you wrote proves anything!

Answer #14

Boy you really cleared things up, thanks. I need to get to church right away.

Praise the lord, I have been saved!!!

Answer #15

The belief in God is contradictory.

Answer #16

@ jimahl

ROFLMAO.

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