The Building Blocks Of Life

[Khandro]

I told y'all years ago on AB (oh what quarrels we had on R.&S.) that the life on Earth had its origins 'out there', & that Dawkins & his followers were fools believing that life began here as a 'happy accident'.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1624008/asteroid-news-clues-life-origin-building-blocks-space-study-jaxa-ryugu-hayabusa2

[bednobs]

"@20.10. Looks like I was right over the target then."
you were deliberately trying for "daftest answer¬"???

[Togo]

//you were deliberately trying for "daftest answer¬"???//

I noticed that you had not turned up and thought ... I have a chance.

[bednobs]

you seem like you are saying you deliberately answer to "bait" people. Is that right? does that mean there is no credibility in you answers, they are not what you really think, but crafted to pissss certain posters off.
How odd!

[Togo]

You might note that my original answer was not in any way specific as to any particular poster. The reply was siezed upon and used, not for the first time by this poster and not confined to me, as a chance to show contrived sensitivity that only demonstrated poor comprehension. The reasons for your own ham fisted interventions are a mystery.

[Atheist]

Togo; It would help if you spoke a bit more plainly instead of referring to 'this poster'. It makes your posts a bit difficult to follow. I teased you with my 'worst answer' post, but since that I'm not sure who you're miffed with.

[Togo]

Miffed? This poster is not at all miffed. Sounds like some are in a condition that almost rhymes though. I

[Togo]

cont... I haven't laughed so much for days.

[Togo]

@20.10 again. Do not edit my posts!

[Togo]

//can't agree with you there togs.//

That's OK 3T. I am not yet sure that all the evidence is in, to convince me to make a decision that stands for infinity.

[Khandro]

Atheist; Q. // Khandro, why do you dislike Dawkins so much?//

A. I don't mind, & mostly even respect, other people's (well argued) beliefs, but this man has made a career out of poisoning young people's minds while becoming a millionaire out of the process.

I have said many times (see above) my reason for thinking him wrong, but no one seems to say why they think he is right.

As to my OP, if as he posits, the idea that all life on Earth began here by the ridiculous theory that a few chemicals in an accidental configuration started it, then the findings from the Japanese space agency that amino acids exist outside our planet show that all options as to the origins of life here are wide open & he is, as I've always maintained, WRONG.

[Old_Geezer]

Even if it did start first elsewhere, a few chemicals in an accidental configuration will still have started it wherever it was. So hardly that wrong.

[Old_Geezer]

All of them Atheist. Read his book, I could not keep reading as he was just being a dick time after time, which was annoying and frustrating and I had no reason to put myself through it to the end.

[Khandro]

O.G. //Even if it did start first elsewhere, a few chemicals in an accidental configuration will still have started it wherever it was. So hardly that wrong.//

How does that work? - how does that produce the dynamic life force evident throughout all nature, how does that produce consciencousnes, and the even bigger question: WHY?

[Zacs-Master]

What if there is no ‘why’ and consciousness is simply the end product of evolution?

[Khandro]

Zacs; If you asked more 'why' questions, not only 'how', you might get somewhere.

O.G. Something to get your head around. St Thomas Aquinas said, "Nature is not like wood being made into a ship, but like wood that makes ITSELF into a ship".

Wow! :0)

[Zacs-Master]

‘If you asked more 'why' questions, not only 'how', you might get somewhere’

It wasn’t a ‘how’ question it was a ‘what if’ question.

Do you have any thoughts on my postulation that consciousness might simply be a by product of evolution?

[Khandro]

//Do you have any thoughts on my postulation that consciousness might simply be a by product of evolution?//

If I had an answer to that I'd be heading off the Stockholm to collect my Nobel Prize.
Why the understanding of consciousness is such a challenge, perhaps the greatest, is that we can't step outside of it to study it.

[naomi24]

Khandro, firstly Einstein wasn't religious, secondly Richard Dawkins is an expert in his field and rather than poison young minds, educates; thirdly the colours (and smells) of flowers do attract insects, and lastly your argument amounts to no more than 'I don’t know how it happened so something of which I have no knowledge whatsoever and no evidence for, must have been responsible - which is no argument at all.

[Zacs-Master]

‘ If I had an answer to that I'd be heading off the Stockholm to collect my Nobel Prize’

You could say that about the whole premise of your thread, Khandro. If your not prepared to delve into the nitty gritty, why comment that you find other theories ‘ridiculous’?

[Zacs-Master]

You’re.