'Atheists can't answer this question!' ...But We Can

Frank Turek (Cross Examined on youtube) is a Christian apologist who recycles old, tired apologetics like William Paley's watchmaker analogy and the teleological argument when his views are challenged. Here, Turek goes up against Douglas Adams' puddle analogy as a response to claims of intelligent design. Frank thinks DNA is a code or message made by god, as there's "no other explanation for it." The issue is, Turek is unfamiliar with the basics evolution, and how DNA evolves. Here, we see apologetics fired out in a rapid patter, creating a concise piece of Christian propaganda. I'm here to debunk it.

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[GeneticallyModifiedSkeptic]

Do you guys think Turek is being dishonest? Does he understand the argument(s) against intelligent design? I voiced my opinion, but I'm still a bit conflicted.

[richardguyver]

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” ― Upton Sinclair

[GuapoGtGuap]

My friend's dog has a mark on its neck that looks like a Nike swoosh, the only explanation is that she is Nike's divinely appointed brand ambassador.

[kaidiirty]

He’s so smart he calls elementary particles “molecules”

[pumpalin]

The world wasn’t fine tuned to us, we were fine tuned to the world

[dyrgja]

"... a software program 3.2 billion letters long also seems to require a mind - a great mind!" Thank you, good sir, for this compliment! Indeed all software engineers I know are extremely intelligent and serious people! We would never say things like "//no idea why it works but DON'T change this line"

[Chimera]

Evangelicals christians: "science can't explain that!"
science: *explains it*
Evangelicals: LIES

[code_monkey_steve]

"What are the odds that my legs would be precisely the right length to reach the floor?"

[FlyingSpaghettiJesus]

“My point, once again, is not that those ancient people told literal stories and we are now smart enough to take them symbolically, but that they told them symbolically and we are now dumb enough to take them literally.”
- John Dominic Crossan

[BorisNoiseChannel]

So; his argument is: _"the puddle analogy fails, cause, well: just look how neatly we fit in this hole!"_ ? Wow!

[evinroen]

“It’s easier to fool someone than to convince them they’ve been fooled.”

Mark Twain

[jackbennett]

As a coder myself, I can tell you that coding does NOT require a great mind.

[davidavorpflanz]

I would rather have questions which can't be answered, than Biblical answers which can't be questioned.

[ReleaseMyKrakken]

The universe was created specifically for Why else would percent of it be lethal to our existence?

Wait.... A....

[albertnielsen]

The default answer to "We don't know" is *not* "god did it", but "We don't know *yet* ".

[thomasking]

The puddle analogy reminds me of the Feynman quote "I saw a car with the license plate ARW 357. Can you imagine? Of all the millions of license plates in the state, what was the chance that I would see that particular one tonight? Amazing!”

[FlyingSpaghettiJesus]

“Properly read, the bible is the most potent force for Atheism ever conceived!”
- Isaac Asimov

[HobbesHobbiton]

Pray ->
Did it work? -> *PRAISE THE LORD!*
Didn't work? -> _The Lord works in mysterious ways._

[tanzanos]

“I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.”
Richard Feynman.
Case closed

[jackkraken]

"The Universe is fine tuned.."

(Remembers all the dead lifeless planets in the universe.)
Wait a minute...