People Don't Know What Creation Science Is

I know I said I would not respond to any of Kelly's posts anymore but I got to ask. What do you think these laws say?What are the first and second laws of thermodynamics?Edited by Theodoric, : spelling

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Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts

But I haven't got a clue as to what you are talking about.

If the Capt. doesn't mind, I think he means, what seperates creaTion science from any other asserted claim about nature?Does it, or can it, provide evidence for design, creation or anything else it claims?

Archaeopteryx is a bird, so?
Australopithecus is an ape, so?This doesn't prove that birds evolved fron dinosaurs or that human beings evolved from apes. We can see similar design, but so what.

But then I would have to ask, what separates evolutionary theory from your list?

This isn't really a statement of anything, Kelly. You're trying to support by disproving the theory of Evolution; it doesn't work that way. This is called a false dilemma - just because my car is not a Toyota does not mean it's a Honda. Similarly, even if the Theory of Evolution is completely incorrect, your as-yet undefined "Creation Science" does not "win" by default. Without evolution, the diversity of life on Earth could be the result of divine Creation, or alien genetic engineering, or some sort of cyclical time where given organisms arise at certain points in the cycle, or some as-yet unimagined natural process.So let's ignore evolution for the moment. A scientific theory is an explanatory model that accounts for relevant observations; the Theory of gravity, for example, explains the observation that objects tend to move towards the Earth when dropped (among other things).What evidence does Creation Science explain? What is the explanation of that evidence that Creation Science offers? How did Creation Scientists arrive at this conclusion? What predictions does Creation Science make, and which have been verified? Have any been falsified?Pretend we all know absolutely nothing about the subject. How would you explain Creation Science to someone who had never before heard of Creationism, or God, or biology?So far, it's difficult to even get a clear view of what you're talking about. If you can educate us in the simplest terms possible as to what your actual position is, we can actually debate that position instead of meandering about on various tangents and generally angering the mods.

Scientists hypothesized that particular types of transitional fossils would be found in particular locations. When they looked there, they found the fossils. They didn't know that the fossils would be there before they looked, but they suspected they would be there because that was one prediction of the Theory of Evolution.Now, you can argue about whether you consider Archeopteryx is a transitional fossil or not, but you cannot argue against the fact that it exhibits characteristics of both birds and reptiles, and that scientists predicted that they would find such fossils exactly where they found them.Can you name one single such discovery that has come out of creationism? (Hint: the answer is no.)

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For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness. We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and non-believers. -- Barack ObamaWe see monsters where science shows us windmills. -- Phat

I would then say that you are not keeping with the OP in this thread.You are evading answering questions propsed to you about creation science on a creation science thread.If you care to debate the points of evolution I suggest you find another thread to do so on.This thread is specific, "People don't know what creation science is"...so again, please, answer the questions pertaining to creation science.- Oni

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"I smoke pot. If this bothers anyone, I suggest you look around at the world in which we live and shut your mouth."--Bill Hicks"I never knew there was another option other than to question everything"--Noam Chomsky

The fact that it can quite explicitly define the kind of evidence that would falsify it, and has a lot of literature demonstrating attempts to do just that.Oh, and thanks for acknowledging that it is a theory, btw, since that means it has done just what I described and thus distinguished itself from creationism.Capt.Edited by Capt Stormfield, : No reason given.

But just to summerize, the first Law of Thermodynamics states that there can be no creation or annihilation of Mass/Energy. One form of energy can be converted into another, one state of matter into another, and there can even be Matter'Energy interconversions, but the totality of Mass'Energy in the universe remains constant.The Second Law is a little more detailed and can be expressed in several ways, all of which can be shown equivilent. There's Classical Thermodynamics, Statistical Thermodynamics and Informational Thermodynamics.In each case, entropy is a measure of the lost usefulness of the system. In classical it measures the useful energy which must be converted to nonusable heat energy. In statistical it measures the probability of the structured arrangement of the system--with the state of disorganization being most probable and in informational it measures the amount of garbled information, or noise, that accompanies the transmission of information by the system.These Laws apply to the whole universe. These Laws predict a gloomy future for the cosmos and indeed if evolution were true, this would be a gloom and doom situation for sure.Not only does the Second Law point back to creation; it also directly contradicts evolution. Systems do not naturally go toward higher order, but toward lower order. Evolution requires a universal principle of upward change; the entropy law is a universal principle of downward change.If language is meaningful, evolution in the vertical sense and the Second Law cannot both be true. The Second Law has been confirmed by all sorts of scientific tests, while macroevolution is a model not even capable of being tested scientifically. If one must make a choice, it would seem wiser to believe the testable evidence that precludes the extrapolation.

If what you say is true, why haven't physicists told biologists that they're wrong?Can you consider the possibility that those who know considerably more about the the 2LOT than you do understand that there is no contradiction? Or do you think that all scientists are in some vast conspiracy to hide the truth? If not, how do you reconcile your understanding with that of those who actually know something about the field?

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For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness. We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and non-believers. -- Barack ObamaWe see monsters where science shows us windmills. -- Phat

And yet this is blatantly false, and it has been pointed out to you several times already. You haven't argued the refutations, you've simply ignored them.I'm not even going to talk about evolution here, since it's off-topic in this thread. Suffice it to say that you are misrepresenting what evolution says.As to thermodynamics - assuming this is on-topic - you're flatly wrong. Order can and does spontaneously form from chaos. One of the simplest examples is a snowflake - an organized, patterned crystal that forms without intelligent interaction and with a net gain in entropy. The form all the time, by the billions - saying that order cannot rise naturally from chaos is clearly factually wrong.Further, if your Creation Science claims Creation, then it does violate teh 1st Law of Thermodynamics - in your own words, matter/energy can neither be created nor destroyed. Unless "Creation Science" refers more to "intelligent assembly from pre-existing matter." I'm not certain, of course, because you haven't told us what Creation Science says yet. We're almost 150 posts deep here, Kelly - would you please tell us what you mean by Creation Science?

You are forgetting one small thing; while the overall entropy in a system might increase it is possible for localized parts to see a decrease in entropy.Or are you going to tell me a hurricane is impossible? Or a snowflake?Your understanding of the second law is completely flawed. It reminds me of a debate I participated in, on another website, where a poster told us that evolution was impossible because of the second law of thermal documents.You really should study real science for a change, and leave those creation "science" websites alone for a while. (When it comes to science, they lie. They have to lie, because the facts just don't work in the direction they want them to. If you want, start a new thread and we can discuss radiocarbon dating. That is a field I have studied a bit and which the creationist websites have to lie about. I'll be glad to show you where in a new thread, or even in an old one.)

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Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.

Yeah, that would be nice. Personally, I'm still waiting for an answer to these questions;

• Who might be a good example of a creation scientist?
• Can you show us a high quality scientific paper by a creation scientist?
• What have creation scientists discovered?
• Which predictions of creation science have been borne out by observation?
• What practical benefits has creation science provided?

I can't tell you how much it would help your case, Kelly, if you were to answer some or all of these questions. So far, you have ignored them. If creation science is sooooo great, why the reticence? Why not just answer the questions?Mutate and Survive

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"The Bible is like a person, and if you torture it long enough, you can get it to say almost anything you'd like it to say." -- Rev. Dr. Francis H. Wade

But with all their gymnastics and pat rejoinders to this obvious conflict between evolution and entropy, can they really argue even with the two most internationally acknowledged authorities on Thermodynamics--Sonntag and Van Wylen? In their widely used two-volume textbook, these experts write:.."the authors see the second law of thermodynamics as man's description of the prior and continuing work of a creator, who also holds the answer to the future destiny of man and the universe." (Sonntag and Van Wylen, Vol. 1, 1973.)See "What is creation Science?" Morris/Parker