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Author Topic:   Can science support creationism?
Buzsaw
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Message 53 of 95 (156749)
11-06-2004 5:41 PM
Reply to: Message 50 by jar
11-06-2004 5:33 PM


Re: You're right, Jar
Actually, the part about open and closed was right. We live in an open system. There is energy created by the sun. So when it comes to Evolution and life, the 2nd. Law of Thermodynamics simply doesn't play. It is completely irrelevant.
Mmmm, my understanding is that since, except for some insignificant meteorites, nothing comes in but light and heat and nothing goes out but light and heat, planet earth is a closed system. Where'm I going wrong??
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Buzsaw
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Message 55 of 95 (156757)
11-06-2004 5:53 PM
Reply to: Message 51 by NosyNed
11-06-2004 5:39 PM


Re: Closed systems
If you are now refering to the universe as a whole as the system under examination there is a further complication that you need to understand.
In a closed system the total entropy can not decrease.
Therefore in a closed universe there can still be local decreases in entropy if there is a corresponding, greater increase in entropy somewhere else. Thus the solar system as a whole could be taken to approximate a closed system. However, that still allows for life on Earth to reverese the increase in entropy because that local decrease is handled by the greater increase in the sun.
1. I am not disputing, nor have not disputed that local decreases don't occur. I have contended that the trend is, however for entropy to increase in the universe. I would also apply that to what I believe to be the closed system of our planet.
2. Correct me if mistaken, but earth does not accumulate a net gain of heat and light from outside it's closed system.

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Buzsaw
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Message 61 of 95 (156788)
11-06-2004 6:26 PM
Reply to: Message 57 by tsig
11-06-2004 6:00 PM


Re: Explanation response.
Buz,the content of your posts argue against the comlexity of the human mind.
AHAH!! As I think about it, you're right! My hypothesis should make earth an OPEN system, since the Creator, existing outside the system actually reverses entropy to decrease the totality of it by creation of light and head via creating the sun on day four, etc. Entropy was decreased when the totality of it's heat and light rose due to power from outside it's system.
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Buzsaw
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Message 67 of 95 (156859)
11-06-2004 9:29 PM
Reply to: Message 66 by NosyNed
11-06-2004 8:08 PM


Re: Science, Buz
I think it was relevant to the topic, but if it bothers you that much, I'll find something else to do.

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Buzsaw
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Message 68 of 95 (156860)
11-06-2004 9:29 PM
Reply to: Message 66 by NosyNed
11-06-2004 8:08 PM


Re: Science, Buz
double post.
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Buzsaw
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Message 70 of 95 (157027)
11-07-2004 6:21 PM
Reply to: Message 69 by NosyNed
11-07-2004 1:46 PM


Re: Something else
=Why do you have such a hard time admitting to a reasonably small error? The inability to recognize error on your part will prevent you from learning.
I believe I admitted to two errors. Sometime you're gona make you're first one and then what? LOL. If your care to copy and paste any other specific statements you know to be false, be my guest. Don't forget, you're debating a Biblical creationist who believes in the supernatural. I should think that you'd not expect us to post our hypotheses on the basis of your ideology. I'm getting pretty sick and tired of this nonsense that I don't know how to behave on these forums. I'm not Mr perfect as you seem to think you are, Ned. The difference between me and some here in town is that I do admit my errors when I become convinced I am indeed in error. So please refrain from these rebukes as if I'm your kid and get specific. Then we'll talk. Why do I have to be having you moderate me when you're posting along with the rest? If you want to admonish me, get your big nose avitar up there and give me heck. Otherwise, please get the heck off my back.

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Buzsaw
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Message 75 of 95 (157108)
11-08-2004 12:01 AM
Reply to: Message 71 by NosyNed
11-07-2004 6:43 PM


Re: Something else
Buz:
... and get specific.
Ned:
About what?
About the specific post that is allegedly in error and specifically what in that post that is false.
Where you were in error?
See? There you go again. Where I was in error and what specific thing in my post was erroneous?
I didn't see you agree that you should not have brought up the 2nd law. Then dragging it out compounded that error.
Why, pray tell, should I agree that I shouldn't have debated the TOPIC on the basis of MY OWN creationist ideology and not on your ideology??
Buz Message 8: The more complexity which science has discovered and researched, the more I consider NS to be utterly impossible and the evidence of an existing infinitely super-intelligent creator actively managing the universe.
From a post of a counterpart I could see need for clarification so I posted this:
Buz Message13: The point of my post #8 is that the complexity of science is what drives my logic that there's simply way too much complexity for NS to have been keeping on keeping on for hundreds of millions and billions of years to produce soooooo much complexity and design in a universe which in which 2ltd is suppose to be operating.
Now, why, oh why have we been wasting all these hours and bandwith, tangoing all the way off the topic ballroom floor with peripherals? It takes more than one to tango, you know, and it wasn't buz who asked for this dance.
Buz, didn't we have a whole thread on your behavior in discussions?
The thread was about who obfuscates in this town, and neither you, nor Percy nor Schrafinator, nor anyone else addressed the specifics of the op of that thread. Instead we did another multi-page tango about an off the cuff statement I made, with my meanspirited accusers INSISTING on keeping on keeping on with this, doing their dead level best to make a fool outa buz, the fundie creo. I repeatedly asked for specifics of them as to where I obfuscated any more than anyone else in town and noone produced noone. In the op, I made some pertinent statements about when we all quit threads, but no, they didn't want to talk about that. All they, like you wanted was to MAKE THE CREO LOOK FOOLISH. So if you go back and read that thread I think you'll find that my behaviour has not been as bad as you people would like for the www to think it is. Some of the crap I get from some of my counterparts has been worse.
The 2nd law issue doesn't "bother me" all that much. However, if you again just duck out when you have been shown to be in error without being polite about it that would "bother me".
LOL!! You must think I'm some kind of jellyfish creo or something, Ned or maybe a doormat that you think you can wipe your dirty shoes on. Nor am I a duck that ducks out when you keep throwing out these generalized insinuations that I don't know how to debate in forums.
Why do you have such a hard time admitting to a reasonably small error? The inability to recognize error on your part will prevent you from learning.
I have a hard time keeping on topic when I continually am drawn off by you people, when you all began quizzing me on other stuff in your desperate attempt to make me state something erroneous. To make it simple, I asked you a very simple question, whether 2ltd was operative in the universe or not. Rather than answering briefly and forthrightly, AS I REQUESTED YOU DO, you and your idiological friends EVASIVELY OBFUSCATED the question and off we all went out in left field with all this off topic stuff.
The first one was addressing you in message 49 and the 2nd was in message 61, addressing Flying Hawk.
In this case, I don't see that your beliefs have anything to do with it. Why did you bring them up?
Had you cut and pasted message 8 and message 13 and stayed on topic by addressing them specifically AS STATED you should have understood why this BIBLICAL CREATIONIST brought them up.
This is a topic about science supporting creationism. You used a scientific concept in bring up the 2nd law (among other things).
Can you spell c r e a t i o n i s m? I was debating as a creationist, and not as an evolutionist. Get it?
It may appear that I am moderating but we can all point out to others when they could improve. Why so sensitive?
Because I quite often get this from some of you people, especially you, Percy and Schrafinator and I, for the life of me, cannot see where I am such a notoriously bad poster here in town so as to have you people constantly reminding me of these generalized unspecified accusations, inuendos, insinuations claims you are making about my behavior. The problem with you people is not, so much my behavior as it is my Biblical ideology which you people can't tolerate. That, imo, is your real bone of contention and when at times, you find it difficult to deal with my ideology, you resort to personal belittlement.
(I have addressed two of your messages in one to tie it all in perspectively.)
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Buzsaw
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Message 76 of 95 (157112)
11-08-2004 12:20 AM
Reply to: Message 72 by RoseBudd
11-07-2004 9:59 PM


Hi Rose Bud
But the way I see it, is that even though scientists try to use science to disprove God, it does just the opposite.
Hi Rose Bud. Thanks for joining and I hope you hang around.
But the way I see it, is that even though scientists try to use science to disprove God, it does just the opposite.
You make the point that I got in so much of a hassle trying to make due to my post #8. Science keeps coming up with multiplied complexities within the complex, such as DNA, the highly complex nervous system and how a hundred billion neurons syncronize among themselves to make the brain do it thing -- all this stuff and millions more examples of this complex stuff and these people wonder why we creationists can't swallow their illogical theories. Intelligent minds are not immune to deception which is very powerful indeed!
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Buzsaw
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Message 78 of 95 (157117)
11-08-2004 12:49 AM
Reply to: Message 77 by NosyNed
11-08-2004 12:21 AM


Re: Creationism and the 2nd law
It was your dragging it out and not doing that that has made you look a bit foolish. Much more foolish than being wrong about the 2nd law.
Ned, for the first time in this whole thread would you please show me wherein anything false or off topic was posted in messages 8 and 13?
If not, why was I drawn into having to answer all this stuff you people threw out at me thereafter?
After pointing out to you that you shouldn't have mentioned it I would expect you to drop the whole thing. Instead you kept going and going. You think that it is going to be ignored.
Yah sure. Sure Ned. Have you forgotten what I'm accused of when I drop stuff and don't respond? Hmmm? I'm damned if I do and damned if I don't. Right? Right. I MUST keep going when you people keep throwing stuff at me and demanding answers. Had YOU PEOPLE, not OBFUSCATED in response to my posts 8 and 13, YOU'D have made to the point responses and moved on YOURSELVES, leaving me free to either leave the thread or address other on topic stuff in the thread.
THE ACCUSITIVE FINGER YOU ARE POINTING AT ME LEAVES THREE FINGERS POINTING RIGHT BACK AT YOURSELF.

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Buzsaw
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Message 80 of 95 (157121)
11-08-2004 1:06 AM
Reply to: Message 77 by NosyNed
11-08-2004 12:21 AM


Go figure.
Now that we've finished with going over that you're bringing up creationism but have yet to explain why it matters here.
The topic title is not Why Does Creation Matter?
The topic title is , Does Science Support Creationism.
My posts number 8 and 13 are my answers to the topic question. I have stated my reason and creationist Rose Bud has succinctly worded a statement, supportive to my point. That's how we creationists think. You need to get used to it and try to be more tolerant to our modus operende.
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The immeasurable present is forever consuming the eternal future and extending the infinite past. buz

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Buzsaw
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Message 93 of 95 (157475)
11-08-2004 10:32 PM
Reply to: Message 79 by pink sasquatch
11-08-2004 12:53 AM


Re: brain too complex...
Buz, how would natural selection work in those same fish, if a subset had a few extra neurons that allowed them quicker reaction time or better ability to identify safe havens from predators?
I don't know enough about neurology to know whether that's possible, if it is, whether it would be long term and as to what effect it would have.

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