Dead Head wrote:Dead Head wrote:Eh? Copernicus was hung?
Any more info on this, Commander Shockwav?
Admittedly, I'm not sure if it was Copernicus that was the man in question. It might have been Kepler or Galileo. I have to go back and check. Anyway, this particular scientist claimed that the sun, and not the earth, was the center of the universe. The belief of that time was the opposite. So they killed him. Or was it they imprisoned him?
Anyway, some scientist got the shaft, big time, because he went against popular opinion. That was my point. I have to look up who it was.
As far as your other comments, I will try my best to explain where I'm coming from, but I'm limited in time here as my wife will beat the living **** out of me if i don't come home.
But very briefly, the reason I chose embryology is because of the complexity of this subject, the way a single celled, microscopic organism becomes a person such as yourself. There are forces at work there that boggle the mind. If one were to compare the steps of how the universe functions on the grander scale, like the physical sciences, to the intricate steps within the initial unicellular being that we are when sperm meets egg, it is the latter that is more amazing, to me anyway.
Now, of course, the obvious reasoning that will follow is that, well, yes, it is amazing, but in all likelihood every step of the embryologic process has a scientific explanation, and if we don't find it now, we will know it later. And I agree with that. The beauty of science is that there is an explanation we understand, or will eventually understand. But how many of these mysteries must we uncover before we ask ourselves not "how" but "why"? It all happens, and the "how" will some day be clear to us, if it isn't already, but the "why"?
The "why" is my point. Within a cell, there are microscopic structures we call ribosomes, mitochodria, endoplasmic reticulum, etc.. They can be seen clearly only with electron microscopy, a super powerful type of microscope. They send even smaller signals to each other to accomplish many different tasks. Some signals are even atomic or magnetic, some using electrical charges, both positive and negative. It is not a few of these interaction that occur, rather, millions of such simulatenous interactions that occur. It is a delicate intricate dance that happens in a cell, a world, no a universe, into and of itself. And within that universe, things happen "seemingly" on a will of its own. This organelle moves here, that one there. It touches this one here, triggering it, but not the million others. If it doesn't touch that
very one, the whole world falls apart, the cell dies. A relatively more grand example, when a embryo makes its way to fetus, this cell moves here, that one there. The 49th cell formed must touch or signal to the 107th cell made, otherwise instead of muscle tissue you get skeletal tissue. An intricate, elaborate dance.
Yes, I know, all with scientific explanation. The "how", I understand.
Again, its the "why"? What force guides these things to happen? Evolutionist would claim it survival. Which would mean that somehow a ribosome, no, a molecule has a will of its own to "be", to exist. Now if God is a far fetched concept one has difficulty grasping, is not the idea that an atom or a molecule having a "brain" and "will" of its own just as unbelievable?
And that's only one mild example amongst many examples of the unnecessary ill effects of religion.