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Buzsaw Inactive Member |
dwise1 writes: Evolution, not evolutionism! Why did you just pull a bait-and-switch there? We were talking about evolution, but you switched it to a creationist invention, a manufactured scapegoat. A lie, a deception. Evolutionism is in the dictionaries and all over the www. It's definition is the same as that of evolution for all practical purposes. Definition of evolutionism according to the free online dictionary:
ev·o·lu·tion·ism (v-lsh-nzm, v-) n. 1. A theory of biological evolution, especially that formulated by Charles Darwin. 2. Advocacy of or belief in biological evolution. Evolutionism - definition of evolutionism by The Free Dictionary Evolutionists do their best to disclaim the ligitimate term of the English language so as to have the edge on the creationism vs evolutionism debate. Evolutionist scientists tend to avoid the term for that reason. The word belief is another ligitimate word which evolutionists purposefully avoid for the same reason. BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW. The immeasurable present eternally extends the infinite past and infinitely consumes the eternal future.
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Buzsaw Inactive Member |
DA writes: You will notice that neither of those definitions is synonymous with "evolution", as you can easily see by substituting either such definition into sentences containing the word "evolution". For all practical purposes, why not? You're being nitty picky for the sake of argument. If Dwise's contention was valid journalists should have the same problem with the term journalism. What's the difference? BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW. The immeasurable present eternally extends the infinite past and infinitely consumes the eternal future.
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Buzsaw Inactive Member |
Oh, so this is becoming a lesson on gramatical correctness. Like I said, you're being nitty picky. Well then forget it. Discerning folks know my point relative to topic.
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Buzsaw Inactive Member |
dwise1 writes: Not grammatical correctness -- grammar being the structure of a language -- , but rather semantic correctness -- semantics dealing with meaning. Each of those sentences are grammatically correct, but half of them are semanticly wrong and don't make any sense.Evolutionism is not the same thing as evolution. To try to claim that they are the same thing is both false and misleading. By the same token we can argue that it is semantics that evolutionists use to avoid the gramatically proper term/word evolutionism in reference to evolution. This is nothing but spin on the term so as to avoid it's usage in order that the evolutionists may gain the higer ground in debate on the controversial issue. The fact remains that evolutionism is every bit as relative to evolution as creationism is to creation and journalism is to what journalists do, autism is to the autistic etc. Speaking for myself so long as I'm gramatically correct relative to the usage of it I'll not be denied the right to apply the word/term in reference to evolution. It's time creationists hold their rightful ground on ligitimate issuse such as this. As for the semantic arguments, both camps can argue til the cows come home on them so the generic non-partisan definition of the word becomes the bottom line which we must go by if this issue is ever to be resolved. BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW. The immeasurable present eternally extends the infinite past and infinitely consumes the eternal future.
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Buzsaw Inactive Member |
Percy, the Wikipedia bias against creationism and conservatism is well established. Therefore I choose to go with the online dictionary, American Heritage and other neutral fair and balanced sources in defining terms. I have documented my POV in this debate well from more reliable sources than Wikipedia.
The debate is on regarding this. Why should my POV be restricted to biased sources for documentation? Yes, this debate is raises controversial issues. However, I see no problem with civility on either side of the debate so far. If there comes a civility problem which concerns you it won't be on my count. I believe that is the duty of moderators to deal with any civility problem which should arise. Thus your referral to the Forum Guidelines relative to my alleged violation of it has no basis. Wikipedia has a systemic problem due to the bias of the moderators as to which user contributions to allow and disallow as can be seen by the link below and this is just one of many websites which are critical of Wikipedia's bias:
Many of the CreationWiki authors have expressed frustration with Wikipedia. It is said that while Wikipedia claims to take a "Neutral Point of View" (NPOV) position on topics and seems to follow it quite well for most issues, when it comes to creation science and intelligent design, it has a strong negative point of view. Sometimes this bias simply results from contributors who do not like or in some cases show a clear hatred for Creationism, but sadly this sentiment extends to the sysops as well. One example is the fact that they classify Creation science and Intelligent design as pseudosciences which is a standard anti-creation tactic.
Wikipedia - CreationWiki, the encyclopedia of creation science Wikipedia Main PageAbout Wikipedia An example of the systemic bias in Wikipedia was the vote to delete the article "Views of Creationists and mainstream scientists compared". Despite Wikipedia's NPOV policy, many voters felt free to vote to delete the article on the grounds that they considered creationism as pseudoscience or worse, rather than on the merits of the article itself. Some of the comments in support of the vote to delete were: The title of the page is inherently wrong, as it suggests that creationism is a scientific view....comparing religious doctrine to scientific theory is comparing apples and oranges, and thus non-encyclopedic. By opposing "creationism" to "mainstream science", the article title suggests that creationism is a scientific POV. Creationism is not science. Delete, since creationism is ultimately based on untestable religious beliefs... Not only did these voters feel free to vote on the basis of their bias, no administrators felt the need to remind the voters that they should be voting on the merits of the article, not their personal opinion of creationism. Furthermore, the contributor who proposed that the article be deleted”after he had vandalised the creationist views listed there”considered the Talk.Origins Archive to be "the most balanced treatment on the web to date" BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW. The immeasurable present eternally extends the infinite past and infinitely consumes the eternal future.
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Buzsaw Inactive Member |
Percy writes: The topic of this thread is the evidence supporting Creationism. Dwise made a fuss about the meaning of evolutionism and I countered with the creationist POV and off we all went on it. I agree we need to get back on track. In the mean time terminology issue remains unresolved and the debate goes way beyond this site. BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW. The immeasurable present eternally extends the infinite past and infinitely consumes the eternal future.
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Buzsaw Inactive Member |
A substantive greeting here. Nothing else substantive. Thanks! Christmas greetings to you and yours as well.
BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW. The immeasurable present eternally extends the infinite past and infinitely consumes the eternal future.
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Buzsaw Inactive Member |
Nothing substantive here at all.
BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW. The immeasurable present eternally extends the infinite past and infinitely consumes the eternal future.
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Buzsaw Inactive Member |
Zero substance here also.
Edited by Buzsaw, : fix smiles BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW. The immeasurable present eternally extends the infinite past and infinitely consumes the eternal future.
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Buzsaw Inactive Member |
Regarding substantive evidence for creationism, I haven't read the whole thread, but has the human population factor been discussed?
Population Statistics...World population growth rate in recent times is about 2% per year. Practicable application of growth rate throughout human history would be about half that number. Wars, disease, famine, etc. have wiped out approximately one third of the population on average every 82 years. Starting with eight people, and applying these growth rates since the Flood of Noah's day (about 4500 years ago) would give a total human population at just under six billion people. However, application on an evolutionary time scale runs into major difficulties. Starting with one "couple" just 41,000 years ago would give us a total population of 2 x 1089. 9 The universe does not have space to hold so many bodies. http://www.creationevidence.org/...dencefor/evidencefor.html BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW. The immeasurable present eternally extends the infinite past and infinitely consumes the eternal future.
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Buzsaw Inactive Member |
As a matter of fact I was making a concerted effort to get to topic, thinking the human population factor was evidence in support of creationism. Oh well, what the heck, you're the boss.
Replying here as Admin to save post bandwidth since this thread is rapidly approaching 300 posts, if you look at the message you're replying to you'll see the answer. It's a reply to your Message 222, not your Message 224 about populations. You hadn't posted Message 224 when I started composing my Message 225, which was interrupted by breakfast. Edited by Admin, : Add info about populations being on-topic. BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW. The immeasurable present eternally extends the infinite past and infinitely consumes the eternal future.
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Buzsaw Inactive Member |
Hi Percy.
1. I believe you are either misreading item 4 of the link or misapplying the math. As I read item 4 it is not saying 1% with i.e. factoring in the 1/3 wiped out. It's saying after you make the estimate of 1% growth then you apply the 1/3rd being wiped out.2. The math gets more complicated in that you need to factor in evey 82 years the 1/3 of the 1% average being wiped out rather than a one step wiping out at the end of the period. In so doing the offspring is being diminished at a faster rate. So 82 years after the flood 1/3 of the population on average would factor out as being wiped out without offspring and so on every 82 years all the way down the line to the present. ITEM 4:
It estimates the annual growth rate at 1% with approximately 1/3 of the population wiped out every 82 years (these figures are extremely questionable, but I'm just going to apply the math). Plugging in the numbers and starting with 8 individuals 4500 years ago (2500 BC) yields a world population today of 49 billion. Would you say that's just a little off, since the estimate of the world population in 2005 was 6.454 billion? BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW. The immeasurable present eternally extends the infinite past and infinitely consumes the eternal future.
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Buzsaw Inactive Member |
To drive my population argument home I've calculated the population growth of .005 or 1/2 of 1% for just 20500 years beginning with 2 people. Here is the results:
2 people at 1/2 of 1% in 20500 years = 50,481,231,644,900,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 people Human Population Calculator At this ultra conservative rate the population growth factor appears to be a significant argument for evidence which supports creationism as per the topic title, given the evolutionist model calls for humanity existing on earth for scores of thousands of years. How do evolutionists account for the lack of evdence accounting for the population growth problem here? Edited by Buzsaw, : link for calculator BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW. The immeasurable present eternally extends the infinite past and infinitely consumes the eternal future.
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Buzsaw Inactive Member |
What I'm trying to do is to simplify the solution to this debate since there's so much controversy over the reading of the original website and so few messages to move on from this.
I'll give plenty of leeway to make it more than fair with the advantage to evolutionists. Calculate beginning with 2 persons 40000 years ago today. That allows 60000 years of advancement in the human race before we begin the calculation as per the evolutionist model. Now again for your advantage let's set the average growth rate at .1% factoring in everything. After 40000 years the population should still be:Population in 40000 yrs (present) = 46,099,380,681,100,000 And that's even allowing the advantage to evolution of a hypothetical starting point beginning 40000 years ago with two people! Population in 40000 = 46,099,380,681,100,000 Calculator: Human Population Calculator Edited by Buzsaw, : add calculator link Edited by Buzsaw, : correct typo on percentage. BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW. The immeasurable present eternally extends the infinite past and infinitely consumes the eternal future.
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Buzsaw Inactive Member |
DA writes: I also like how you think you are doing a favour by setting average growth at 0.1% when it already know that the growth rate from 1CE to 1000CE was around 0.04%! But we're not talking ICE to CE. We're talking 40000 to present. That's what you need to address. Thanks for correcting my typo to 0.1% BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW. The immeasurable present eternally extends the infinite past and infinitely consumes the eternal future.
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