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First, there is no oxygen in the jar- and many preservatives to prevent any bacterial growth.
Second, the key ingredient of a few billion years is also omitted.
Third, how does he know? If it is bacterial, he won't see it- he didn't even look! I'd compare that to opening the door of a manor house, glancing in- then saying "Nope, no one's there."
Okay first of all I am not entirely disputing you because all I want is the point, second some creationists have a very, very small points. How can life just form from biological-supporting soup. I am not saying oh Jesus is the way but I am saying that life just doesn't come out of a thin air. There may be a God up there but who says he is Jesus, Allah, or a Hindu god. I guess we will have to wait to find out.
Chance. As in the chance that the gravel at the bottom of the river is arranged in the way it is arranged in the way it is, that a stone lies in that exact position in that exact place when thrown.
Life did not just appear one day. It was created. I'm not saying that one religion is particularly better than another, just that there is a higher power.
Why do you have to be so rude to people? You're just reinforcing the stereotype that atheists are angry and rude, which us friendly atheists don't appreciate. No matter how good your arguments may be, no one is going to listen to them or take you seriously if you're rude and abusive. Think about it, when someone is rude to you do you think, "well that guy made some good points. I think I should listen to what he is saying," or do you think, "That guy's an ass. Why would I listen to him?" If you present you arguments in a friendly manner, people are much more likely to listen to what you have to say.
I agree with you, but the fact of the matter is that many people do judge an argument buy how it is presented, even if that is poor reasoning. If you want to get through to those people, anger and aggression is not the way to do it. A little kindness goes a long way.
Are you going to believe A) the best theory of someone who lived 10000 years ago, believed in omens and superstitions, or B) believe the best theory we have now?
Billions of years is not one day. Look at viruses, they behave like living things but are not yet complex enough to be living. That may change someday.
Life did not just appear one day. It was created. I'm not saying that one religion is particularly better than anyother, just that there is a higher power
Who created the creator? To solve the dilemma of how everything got here is impossible because of cause and effect. Everything was created by something (not necessarily by anything concious). To solve the dilemma of how everything got here we need an explanation that it in itself does not require an explanation, which is beyond our imagination.
The people in the video clearly have no understanding of evolution. Evolution has nothing to do with the origins of life and also no scientist says that life could start that way...
I beg to differ, just because Darwin made no salient comment about the origins of life, does not mean that his mechanism can't be used to explain it.
Simply put, life did not just arise spontaneously out of somewhere. It couldn't have been life from non-life, just like that, the very same selection pressure that drives evolution today and since the dawn of time would if we are to be rational about it have guided the formation of replicators such as cRNA which uses only four of the nitrogenous bases that make up genetic material.
It is the lucky ones that used the strongest bonding combinations and the ones that probably found themselves at the distinct advantage of being encased in a liposome of some sort and so on.
