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Beretta
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Message 76 of 94 (445842)
01-04-2008 3:55 AM
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01-03-2008 10:49 AM


Re: Topic Folk Please.
"The question is, where are the alleged presuppositions?"
Well how about the uniformatarian principle being a presupposition leading to conclusions about the earth's age.

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Beretta
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Message 77 of 94 (445848)
01-04-2008 4:46 AM
Reply to: Message 67 by jar
01-03-2008 11:23 AM


Uniformatarian Assumptions
what is seen is a period when all we see are the indications of very simple life forms
And we are presupposing time has to do with depth of find -uniformatarian assumption/presupposition.
indications do not show hard bodies or the complexity of later organisms.
That means later as in presupposing time has to do with depth again.Perhaps the hard bodied types lived at a different level or their body type predisposed them to being buried higher or they tried to get away and failed a little later than the ones that were maybe already under the sand or the ground? What if the time presupposition has nothing to do with it but uniformatarian principles are being assumed to be fact.
higher up we find layers where similar critters are mixed in with hard bodied critters.
Assuming time again.

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Message 78 of 94 (445849)
01-04-2008 5:07 AM
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01-04-2008 4:46 AM


Re: Uniformatarian Assumptions
Perhaps the hard bodied types lived at a different level or their body type predisposed them to being buried higher or they tried to get away and failed a little later than the ones that were maybe already under the sand or the ground? What if the time presupposition has nothing to do with it but uniformatarian principles are being assumed to be fact.
This is plain nonsense and/or fantasy. Many of the lifeforms were not mobile. They were anchored in position at the sediment/water interface. They are found were they are because thats where and when they lived.
Care to go to the Uniformitarianism topic, and discuss what uniformitarianism actually is and isn't about? Read the earliest messages of that topic. That is where the good stuff is.
Moose

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Beretta
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Message 79 of 94 (445850)
01-04-2008 5:29 AM
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01-03-2008 10:34 AM


Time Assumptions
Well the conclusion (note: not a presupposition) is that there was a time when there was no life on earth and that since then life has evolved.
Based on the assumption of uniformatarianism and thus burial depth indicating time.

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Beretta
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Message 80 of 94 (445851)
01-04-2008 5:39 AM
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01-03-2008 11:29 AM


Simple Organisms
we can actually see and understand examples of simple forms of life (simple in this context meaning "simpler than multicellular life")...that's a pretty reasonable conclusion.
But we know know that even 'simple' unicellular organisms are hugely complex so how did life start if none of it was ever simple. We suppose simple came together on its own and became more complex.
Presupposition.
Right now we have bacteria, viruses and us and we all exist on the same planet at the same time so why do we assume simple preceded complex? Why must time have anything to do with it?
Evolutionary Answer: because there is no higher intelligence to create life so simple must have occurred by natural processes and complex derived from that.
Presupposition

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Message 81 of 94 (445856)
01-04-2008 6:59 AM
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01-03-2008 8:56 AM


Re: Beginning presuppostions
LucyTheApe
A nail oxidizes because it obeys the 2nd law of thermodynamics. Life doesn’t.
Water turns to ice because it goes through a state change below a certain temperature. Life doesn’t.
Life does not disobey the second law of thermodynamics.

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Beretta
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Message 82 of 94 (445857)
01-04-2008 7:13 AM
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01-03-2008 12:08 PM


Re: Only one part that MIGHT be on topic.
Dating is a matter of conclusions based on available information. There is no presupposition there.
Look at the theory behind radioactive decay -loads of assumptions -one being that decay proceeds at a constant rate and always have.
suits the picture of evolution since it gives big dates BUT is it true?

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Message 83 of 94 (445859)
01-04-2008 7:24 AM
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01-04-2008 7:13 AM


Re: Only one part that MIGHT be on topic.
So you propose a mechanism by which the rate of radioactive decay might significantly alter?
This is so off topic. I'm sorry.

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Beretta
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Message 84 of 94 (445874)
01-04-2008 8:34 AM
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01-04-2008 5:07 AM


Re: Uniformatarian Assumptions
They are found were they are because thats where and when they lived.
Or...that's where they were buried; when they lived depends on uniformatarian assumptions giving dates that we have no separate confirmation of. A fossil is dead and buried -it has no date.
Care to go to the Uniformitarianism topic
I'll have a look -thanks.

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Beretta
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Message 85 of 94 (445875)
01-04-2008 8:37 AM
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01-04-2008 7:24 AM


Rapid radioactive decay
So you propose a mechanism by which the rate of radioactive decay might significantly alter?
It has been proposed that it is a very real possibility and helium levels in zircon crystals seem to support this possibility, yes.

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jar
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Message 86 of 94 (445877)
01-04-2008 8:56 AM
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01-04-2008 3:55 AM


Re: Topic Folk Please.
Well how about the uniformatarian principle being a presupposition leading to conclusions about the earth's age.
Nope. It too is a conclusion. We see evidence of certain events and features today. There are floods and fires and volcanoes and earthquakes and rivers and streams and rain and drought. We can see the results of such events. We know their signatures, and when we look around at the past, we see the same things.
The conclusion then, not presupposition, is that the same processes were going on in the past that are going on today.

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jar
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Message 87 of 94 (445878)
01-04-2008 9:00 AM
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01-04-2008 4:46 AM


Re: Uniformatarian Assumptions
Actually, no, not assuming much accept the assumption that bottom layers were there before the upper layers were laid down.
Again, we are looking at conclusions. We conclude that the part under something was there before the upper part was created unless there are signs that the order has been changed through physical means.

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jar
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Message 88 of 94 (445879)
01-04-2008 9:01 AM
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01-04-2008 5:29 AM


Re: Time Assumptions
Yet again, those have been explained to you. Neither is a presupposition, both are conclusions.

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Message 89 of 94 (445880)
01-04-2008 9:10 AM
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01-04-2008 7:13 AM


still conclusions
Look at the theory behind radioactive decay -loads of assumptions -one being that decay proceeds at a constant rate and always have.
Once again, that is simply not true. It also is a conclusion, we can see radioactive decay going on in the past, both in the evidence from stars and sites here on earth such as Oklo in Gabon.
Now so far you have not addressed any of the examples listed in Message 1 and each of your asserted suppositions has been shown to be a conclusion instead. Do you have anything related to the topic?

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Message 90 of 94 (446059)
01-04-2008 8:07 PM
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01-03-2008 7:18 AM


Re: Beginning presuppostions
Beretta
Genetic info is the 'software' of the organism. The 4-letter chemical alphabet of the DNA is translated into the 20 letter alphabet of the proteins.
This "info" is not like software in which a code is placed in order to produce a given result but as a consequence of the bonds formed through exchanging charges in complex forms as well as the exchange of heat in the environment present.
Hence we find upon investigation that carbon is structured in such a way that the bonds available allow for the processes of organic chemistry. The structure is just a matter of the number of available electron gaps in the valence shell of the carbon atom. In fact the simplest of the carbon organic molecules CH4 is something all humans are familiar especially on long elevator rides.
All other parts of the human body follow from these organic bonds. It is also why a fire is so devastating to flesh as the bonds are broken by this heat exchange overpowering the molecular bonds

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."
Albert Einstein

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