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DrJones* Member Posts: 2290 From: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Joined: Member Rating: 8.7 |
I WILL NOT STAND FOR YOU TO CALL MY CREATOR A LIER!
I apologize in advance for going schoolyard but: You started it. When you claim that god could have made an Earth that appears to be billions of years old when it is in fact younger, you're saying that he/she is a deceiver, a trickster, a liar. Live every week like it's Shark Week! Just a monkey in a long line of kings. If "elitist" just means "not the dumbest motherfucker in the room", I'll be an elitist! *not an actual doctor
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5949 Joined: Member Rating: 5.3 |
Please, guys, this is only for Aquilegia.
Here's a young-earth claim for you, courtesy of Kent Hovind in a radio interview on Southwest Radio Church, 13 Sep 2002 (my transcription taken from the audio at Page not found - SWRC (if that link is not broken) at 8 minutes 53 seconds into the broadcast):
quote: The rate of 5 million tons per second is slightly high, but still very close to the actual rate of about 4.7 million tons per second. Of course, the 20 billion-year figure is completely bogus; the sun's current age is estimated at about 4.5 to 5 billion years. First, I want your initial reaction to that claim. Does it ring true to you? Does it fit your understanding of how the sun burns its fuel? Would you care to explain to us briefly how the sun burns? I quite honestly do want to know. Second, do the math -- something that Hovind refused to do. Go with the 5-billion-year age, but really the 20-billion-year age won't yield very different results, only a factor of 4. What do you end up with as an initial solar mass? And, yes, the claim is quite false and misleading. Let's see if you can discover that for yourself. Edited by dwise1, : Added the "please guys" Edited by dwise1, : added last paragraph
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Dr Jack Member Posts: 3514 From: Immigrant in the land of Deutsch Joined: Member Rating: 8.4 |
I never denied the 'old universe' theory. I actually strongly believe that God made all things mature. In doing that, he could have created a 'mature' universe. The rocks could appear to be billions of years old, but really be much younger. Adam could've appeared to have been 30, when he was not a day old. Do you believe Adam was created with memories of a childhood that never happened? A mother and father that never were? Scars from accidents that never happened? Because that's what we're talking about here. It's not creating a 'mature' universe - whatever that means in a universe that you claim can't be old - it's faking every last point of it's history; laying down fossils of creatures that never lived and faking up their tracks as if they did and scars and breaks on their "bones" from incidents that never happened. It's deception on a massive scale. You say that you will not stand to see your god called a liar. It is not we who make such a claim but you. You, if what you said in this thread is so, believe your god has deliberately, and systematically, faked the universe to make it appear to be something it isn't. Such a god is a liar.
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jar Member (Idle past 419 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
I WILL NOT STAND FOR YOU TO CALL MY CREATOR A LIER! Not Lier, LIAR! Sorry, you created her. Not my fault you presented a Liar. But that is what you presented, a Goddlet that creates stuff that looks old. Aslan is not a Tame Lion
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Aquilegia753 Member (Idle past 5926 days) Posts: 113 Joined: |
Like I said before, there is no time distiction between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2.
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DrJones* Member Posts: 2290 From: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Joined: Member Rating: 8.7 |
what does that have to do with anything?
Live every week like it's Shark Week! Just a monkey in a long line of kings. If "elitist" just means "not the dumbest motherfucker in the room", I'll be an elitist! *not an actual doctor
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Taz Member (Idle past 3317 days) Posts: 5069 From: Zerus Joined: |
Aquilegia753 writes:
Are you saying that the speed of light is not constant? Even so if God created the stars on that day, then the speed of light would have to be even greater! Owing to the deficiency of the English language, I have occasionally used the academic jargon generator to produce phrases that even I don't fully understand. The jargons are not meant to offend anyone or to insult anyone's intelligence!
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Aquilegia753 Member (Idle past 5926 days) Posts: 113 Joined: |
Every star is made up of hydrogen. Under intense pressure (and, respectively, heat) hydrogen atoms will fuse together to form Helium. This produces an imense amount of energy and heat (it's a wonder why: no matter is lost in the fusion). The sun is the ultamite fusion reactor.
No, the sun wouldn't expand as you go backward in time (or shrink as time goes on), unless the materials become more dense (like lead, iron, gold, etc.) Then, it might go down slightly, before the expansion of the supernova.
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5949 Joined: Member Rating: 5.3 |
I WILL NOT STAND FOR YOU TO CALL MY CREATOR A LIER! Beware the belly button! But jar did not call your creator a liar. You did. By invoking the Omphalos (Greek: "navel") Argument. For an overview, read my page on it at No webpage found at provided URL: http://members.aol.com/dwise1/cre_ev/omphalos.html. For more information, try the Wikipedia article at Omphalos hypothesis - Wikipedia.
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1430 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
I WILL NOT STAND FOR YOU TO CALL MY CREATOR A LIER! Then you must assume that all evidence is true, and that we can understand reality by understanding what the evidence says. Enjoy. compare Fiocruz Genome and fight Muscular Dystrophy with Team EvC! (click) we are limited in our ability to understand by our ability to understand RebelAAmericanOZen[Deist ... to learn ... to think ... to live ... to laugh ... to share.
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Phat Member Posts: 18332 From: Denver,Colorado USA Joined: Member Rating: 1.0 |
Hi, Aqualegia. Welcome to the fray! Just so you know, when I first came to EvC in 2004, I used to get really frustrated at some of the arguments that I was faced with. Don't take them personally, for God is big enough to handle it and so should you be as well.
My question to you is this: Why must creationism be true? Personally, I believe that God existed before anything else, and I believe that God foreknew the formation of Earth as well as the individual characters which would populate it throughout time. I have no problem with Biological Evolution as a plausible fact, however. Convictions are very different from intentions. Convictions are something God gives us that we have to do. Intentions are things that we ought to do, but we never follow through with them. * * * * * * * * * * “The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.”--General Omar Bradley * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Homer Simpson: Sometimes, Marge, you just have to go with your gut! Marge: You *always* go with your gut! How about for once you listen to your brain?
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5949 Joined: Member Rating: 5.3 |
Close, but not quite. I won't quibble about a star's composition, though most do contain a lot of hydrogen, which is what "burns". However, more massive stars in later stages will start fusing helium and heavier atoms, though iron is the limit.
However, this statement is definitely wrong:
(it's a wonder why: no matter is lost in the fusion) Yes, matter is lost in the fusion reaction. 0.3% of the mass of the four hydrogen nuclei that fuse to form one helium nucleus is converted to energy. By measuring the energy output of the sun, we determine that about 4.76 million tons of solar mass is converted to energy every second. In 5 billion years, this amounts to about 7.889608 x 1023 tons, a few hundredths of one percent of the sun's current mass. So compared with the mass of the sun, the total loss is miniscule and the greater mass of the ancient sun is negligible. Hovind's claim is typical of creationist claims. The method of refuting it is also fairly common. Something that should be done with every creationist claim. PSJust out of curiosity. If you had encountered Hovind's claim in that book of yours, would you have swallowed hook, line, and sinker? Like you swallowed those other claims? Edited by dwise1, : PS
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Aquilegia753 Member (Idle past 5926 days) Posts: 113 Joined: |
But I don't believe that God created the world with fossils and bones. "The earth was formless AND VOID" There was nothing on the earth at its creation, which meant that the scars, the animals, the fossils, must have been real. The age of the rocks themselves, however, might be younger than they really are. Remember, God can do anything. He can make a young earth look old without lieing.
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Aquilegia753 Member (Idle past 5926 days) Posts: 113 Joined: |
Thank you. I needed that encouragement.
In answer to your question, creationism must be true simply because if it isn't, then the Bible could be counted false (if this is false, why can't that be too?), and if the Bible is false, then we have no hope of salvation. If I have no hope of salvation, then what's the point of life?
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Aquilegia753 Member (Idle past 5926 days) Posts: 113 Joined: |
If it was written by a scientist, then yes. I respect (as Verne says) lerned people.
Right now, I'm reading up on Fusion. I was pretty sure that no matter was lost, but I'll soon find out.... Okay, matter is lost. That is accountable for the energy gained.
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