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Message 46 of 83 (575979)
08-22-2010 6:07 AM
Reply to: Message 42 by archaeologist
08-22-2010 5:31 AM


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i would disagree. no one has ever believed that the earth was flat. at best, that was an old sailor's tale or bedtime story to scare little children. read Hapgood's 'Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings'.
This is simply false. Although the sphericity of the Earth was discovered much earlier than many people think there were certainly ancient cultures that believed in a flat Earth (such as the Egyptians) and even in relatively modern times there were some who still believed it.
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again i would disagree as science did not invent those things. they came about from viewing older , similar versions that were the product of the God-given intelligence men possess. science had nothing to do with it.
Modern technology depends on science. Without science we would not have modern computers.
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which means that its credibility to discover and proclaim the truth is shot and demonstrates that it never knows what the truth is and tellspeople it needs to be ignored.
This proclaims the infallibility of the closed mind. It explains a lot. Unfortunately refusing to accept that you are wrong does not make you right. The open mindedness of science is one of the reasons that it deserves to be given credibility, since it allows for the removal of error. And to the extent that creationists reject this open-mindedness they are being unscientific - an important point to remember.
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First, the act:
Now the creation act is a one time affair but then so is the origination of the process of evolution and its initial interaction with the original life form. the origin of life and the origin of the process cannot be repeated thus like creation, secularists ONLY study the supposed results of this process, and this takes millions of years, so they say.
whereas the results of creation can be studied by anyone at anytime. so thi gives creation the advantage for qualification over the process of evolution.
Here you are incorrect. The actual processes of evolution are studied in the laboratory and the field. The processes of creation are unobserved. The only "products of creation" that we may observe are human creations and even there we may use processes resembling evolution to good effect.
Thus the advantage is to evolution.
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Second, original condition: for creation we know the orginal conditions for say reproduction. a man, woman, a bed or couch. plus we know that the air, the universe, the oceans, the geography were all about the same as they are now (give or take a flood , pollution etc.) we do not need to guess at what conditions were present for reproduction the creation way.
And yet the theory of evolution says nothing different about human reproduction so creationism has no advantage there. (In fact many Young Earth Creationists propose some allegedly significant differences in environment prior to the Flood - and without any physical evidence to support such a claim, so creationism is actually at a disadvantage by your own criterion).
Presumably you are referring to the very different conditions on the primordial Earth. However, what we know of these conditions IS based on physical evidence. If your point is that creationists simply close their minds to this evidence and its implications then it is another disadvantage to creationism.
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there is no ancient record, no ancient civilization, nothing fom the ancient world that reveals the evolutionary original conditions. which means that even if the scientists think they got it right, they would never know if they did or not, for the theory of evolution, it is all a guess and no confirmation.
another advantage for creation.
In other words you claim that creationism is more scientific than evolution because it treats ancient myths as unquestionable fact, while rejecting all the evidence to the contrary. Another disadvantage to creationism (and in itself sufficient to disqualify it).
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Third, replication: now as i said, evolutionists and creationists can only test the results of each. For creationists, that is not difficult and as i have used this example many times before, one just has to visit the nurseries for the life forms inhabiting the planet today and one will see replication in process. We also see the sun and moon rise and fall each day, the stars at night and so it goes.
each stage of the creation act we can see take place and we do not even need a test tube to observe it.
BUT with the theory and process of evolution, there is no replication of its supposed work because no one can replicate the original conditions to transform a specimen to change like the examples given in the fossil record.
In other words you CALL ordinary reproductive biology "creation". Unfortunately you are wrong. The "creation" you need to examine is divine creation without parents. This is completely unobserved.
On the other hand evolutionary processes can be observed in the laboratory and the field. Advantage to evolution
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these men and women are also jumping the gun. they are taking existing animals and applying foreign substances to see what will take place, but they forget that the process, did not such thing nor had capibilities to perform such acts thus all these experiments are producing false results which are then credited to the theory.
If this were true it would apply to all experiments. Practically all experiments rely on setting up artificial conditions. Thus this is simply another attack on science.
Thus, even using your own examples evolution is science and creationism is not only utterly disqualified, it is revealed as being opposed to science, attacking both experimentation and the (conservative) open-mindedness that science requires.

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Message 47 of 83 (575984)
08-22-2010 7:20 AM
Reply to: Message 44 by archaeologist
08-22-2010 5:48 AM


Moderator Request
Hi Archaeologist,
I think it would help the discussion if you could resolve what looks like a contradiction. In your opening post you said you would show how creation qualifies as secular science:
archaeologist in Message 1 writes:
This work will not be used to explore those options rather it will use the current secular principles and rules to show that act of creation can and should be considered science.
But then you seem to have an odd opinion of what the "secular principles and rules" of science are. For instance, in Message 42 you say you don't believe science is responsible for technological innovation:
archaeologist in Message 42 writes:
bluescat48 writes:
If we followed your views I would not be typing on this keyboard or viewing the monitor, since they never would have been invented
again i would disagree as science did not invent those things. they came about from viewing older , similar versions that were the product of the God-given intelligence men possess. science had nothing to do with it.
And here in this message you say you think science should have different rules:
i propose new rules--truth and error/ right and wrong for all of science...
Unlike what you stated in your opening post, you now seem intent on demonstrating that current approaches to science are invalid and that creation follows a different but demonstrably better approach.
Could you please clarify which one it is you're trying to do? The people you're discussing with have a right to know whether you're trying to do what you said in your opening post (the one I judged fit for promotion), or what you've said more recently.
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Message 48 of 83 (575992)
08-22-2010 10:20 AM
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08-22-2010 5:31 AM


Truth?
which means that its credibility to discover and proclaim the truth is shot and demonstrates that it never knows what the truth is and tellspeople it needs to be ignored.
Truth: This is a word best avoided entirely in physics [and science] except when placed in quotes, or with careful qualification. Its colloquial use has so many shades of meaning from ‘it seems to be correct’ to the absolute truths claimed by religion, that it’s use causes nothing but misunderstanding. Someone once said "Science seeks proximate (approximate) truths." Others speak of provisional or tentative truths. Certainly science claims no final or absolute truths. Source
So you go ahead and proclaim truth, Truth, TRUTH, and even TRVTH!!!
Let scientists get on with what they do.

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

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Message 49 of 83 (576057)
08-22-2010 4:59 PM


how can i reply to clarify if there is no right to reply?
as far as i am concerned the answers to bluescat were not part of the body of the main text andi was very clear about that. the body of my last post was consistant with the OP.
but i see people are nitpicking again on minor issues to avoid the reality and finding things to nag about that distract and refuse to discuss with an open mind.
case in point:
Here you are incorrect. The actual processes of evolution are studied in the laboratory and the field. The processes of creation are unobserved. The only "products of creation" that we may observe are human creations and even there we may use processes resembling evolution to good effect.
the harpingof the party line even when shown that evolution is NOT studied at all. thenthe denial of creation when shown that all they are studying is really the results of the creative act under the influence of the sin and corruption that entered the world.
this is further proof of why creationists cannot discuss with evoklutionists, the evolutinist resorts to blind denial and repetitive chanting of the evolutionary party line. the only people with a closed mind are the evolutionists as they refuse to discuss alternatives.
that wholepost seems to be an effort to convince the poster that evolution is still true even though the evidence says otherwise. i have yet to see any secularist on this board actually andhonestly discuss the issues raised.

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Message 50 of 83 (576059)
08-22-2010 5:11 PM
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08-22-2010 4:59 PM


Hiding the off-topic discussion in this message. --Admin
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Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!

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Message 51 of 83 (576062)
08-22-2010 5:20 PM
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08-22-2010 6:07 AM


Hiding the off-topic discussion in this message. --Admin
for creation we do not need to do this at all nor do we need a science lab to understand anything about life, its origins and so forth.
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PaulK
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Message 52 of 83 (576063)
08-22-2010 5:21 PM
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08-22-2010 4:59 PM


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Message 53 of 83 (576064)
08-22-2010 5:24 PM
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08-22-2010 5:11 PM


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Message 54 of 83 (576065)
08-22-2010 5:27 PM
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Message 55 of 83 (576070)
08-22-2010 5:50 PM
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08-22-2010 5:20 PM


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for creation we do not need to do this at all nor do we need a science lab to understand anything about life, its origins and so forth.
Because creationism cares only for dogma, not for truth. Which is why it is not science.
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Message 56 of 83 (576073)
08-22-2010 6:02 PM
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Message 57 of 83 (576104)
08-22-2010 8:14 PM
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08-22-2010 4:59 PM


Moderator Request
archaeologist writes:
how can i reply to clarify if there is no right to reply?
As a moderator I'm not a participant in the discussion. The clarification should be addressed to the participants, not to me. Please make the clarifications I requested in Message 47.
Please, no replies to this message. Problems and issues with discussion should be taken to Report discussion problems here: No.2.

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Message 58 of 83 (576175)
08-23-2010 4:13 AM


Hiding the off-topic discussion in this message. --Admin
And here in this message you say you think science should have different rules:
Unlike what you stated in your opening post, you now seem intent on demonstrating that current approaches to science are invalid and that creation follows a different but demonstrably better approach.
yes i do think that but that does not take away from the demonstration that creation qualifies as science under secular rules. those secular rules are too restrictive, too limited and exclude important data which renders it useless to obtain the truth. which limits the use of creation in science for creation does not follow th esecular way thus to obtain the truth, secular science has to change--not creation.
***i hope that answers the confusion, as i am not sure what he is getting at.
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Message 59 of 83 (576176)
08-23-2010 4:19 AM


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in the OP and in the other post i made, i just wanted to open up discussion about creation as science and demonstrated that the act qualified better than evolution as science , as science is defined today.
yes new rules need to be implemented in the scientific field for the truth is not told nor searched for
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Message 60 of 83 (576194)
08-23-2010 6:25 AM
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08-23-2010 4:19 AM


If we use God as a variable in an equation we can get any result. God just makes it happens.
Since that is the case creationism cannot be accepted as science. That is what people mean when they speak about prediction. A scientist makes an equation, include some variables, calculate and see if his calculation/prediction is correct or not. In the case of God as a variable; we can just predict any result "if we put this into the variable either this, or this, or this or this etc. will happen". When scientists are trying to understand natural phenomena this would of course not be helpful in any way.
Science is about understanding and knowledge, not about the truth/meaning of life in a religious point of view.
You talk about the "hypocrisy" towards creationism and ToE. I am not sure I understand what you are saying. My interpretation of what you write is somehow like this:
"Because Yahweh have created the world and everything, therefore evolution cannot be true, but I understand you are close-minded and therefore you should simply accept the Bible as the truth in your way of thinking or to say; your close-minded way of thinking. Therefore, I present, to you, a way of understanding this; a way for you to understand the complexity within your own framework." etc.
If this is the case I understand why we have a hard time to communicate with each other. Your process of thoughts is very similar to the people of the historical Jerusalem, Judah, and Israel while we think more like the Greeks. We understand the world in two very contrary ways. Basically, you could say we think in cosmos/chaos/eternity and you think the creation/destruction/ending. Which such different fundamental way of understanding the world, then no wonder we cannot communicate with each other.
We want to understand, not just accept, and therefore we cannot accept the truth without stunningly good evidence and/or arguments. Personally, I still do not accept any truth (yet) and might never do because my understanding of the world is limited to a lot of things. For instance my life span.

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