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Message 16 of 50 (649568)
01-24-2012 12:13 PM
Reply to: Message 15 by Dr Adequate
01-24-2012 12:04 PM


And which they will likely refuse to understand when you explain further.

Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!

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Message 17 of 50 (649664)
01-24-2012 8:31 PM
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01-23-2012 10:12 PM


Layering
Layering of fossils is of course an immense problem for YEC.
Diatoms and Radiolarians are microscopic critters similar in size and composition so should be mixed. But Radiolarians are found all the way down to the Cambrian, Diatoms only Jurassic and above.

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Message 18 of 50 (649859)
01-26-2012 12:42 AM
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01-23-2012 10:12 PM


herebedragons writes:
quote:
It would be nice to have some simple rebuttals to arguments like hydro-logic sorting.
Answer: Potato chips in a bag.
When they look at you quizzically, point out that in a bag of potato chips, all the biggest chips are on the top and all the crumbs are on the bottom. That's what we should see if there were hyrdological sorting: The little bits fall through the gaps that the big bits leave as they clump together and settle at the bottom. If the fossil record were hydrologically sorted, all the whale fossils should be on top.
But they're not.
So they weren't.
You might consider pulling out your Lewis Carroll for that last:
If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't.

Rrhain

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Message 19 of 50 (649866)
01-26-2012 3:56 AM
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01-26-2012 12:42 AM


When they look at you quizzically, point out that in a bag of potato chips, all the biggest chips are on the top and all the crumbs are on the bottom. That's what we should see if there were hyrdological sorting: The little bits fall through the gaps that the big bits leave as they clump together and settle at the bottom.
Actually that's not how it works. What you're describing is not hydraulic sorting (N.B: only creationists call it hydrological sorting, because they took a vow to be wrong about everything). what you're talking about is the Brazil Nut Effect, which is different. Hydraulic sorting requires water, and in h.s. the finest particles of sediment settle last, because their small size makes them behave like dust-motes in air, they don't plummet straight down, but swirl about. (I think I read somewhere that a coccolith takes about a year to "fall" from the surface of the sea to the ocean bed. A chip of gravel would obviously go much faster.) Another difference is that the B.N.E. requires a prolonged period of shaking for the small nuts to settle down to the bottom, whereas with h.s. if you give a jar of earth and water one good shake and then leave it alone, it'll settle as I've described --- with the B.N.E. the shaking is the cause of the sorting, whereas with h.s. the shaking is just the cause of the sediment being distributed through the fluid, and it would happen if there was some other cause of the original mixture.
However, your point as amended is a good one --- if the sediment had been hydraulically sorted, then the sediment would be hydraulically sorted. This kind of logic will always remain out of the grasp of the average creationist, because of its immense and baffling complexity.

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Message 20 of 50 (649867)
01-26-2012 4:35 AM
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01-26-2012 3:56 AM


Dr Adequate writes:
However, your point as amended is a good one --- if the sediment had been hydraulically sorted, then the sediment would be hydraulically sorted.
But, but, Dr Adequate, only the fossils were hydraulically sorted, the sediments were not for some reason...gravity is "just a theory", remember! All in the same flood, but it only applies to fossils, not to sediments. Magic!
Dr Adequate writes:
This kind of logic will always remain out of the grasp of the average creationist, because of its immense and baffling complexity.
I think it's because they don't want to accept reality. That's the only reason.
Edited by Pressie, : Added sentence

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Message 21 of 50 (649892)
01-26-2012 10:12 AM


Q. But I see order and design everywhere. Order and design requires a designer, it can't happen by chance can it?
A. Here, read this. (The Blind Watchmaker)
I really don't have a pithy answer that works for this one.

Life, don't talk to me about life - Marvin the Paranoid Android

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Message 22 of 50 (649899)
01-26-2012 11:36 AM
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01-26-2012 10:12 AM


Q. But I see order and design everywhere. Order and design requires a designer, it can't happen by chance can it?
A. That's exactly why no-one has ever said that it did.

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Message 23 of 50 (649900)
01-26-2012 11:41 AM
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01-26-2012 11:36 AM


Sloppy of me, try this:
Q. But I see order and design everywhere. Order and design requires a designer doesn't it?

Life, don't talk to me about life - Marvin the Paranoid Android

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Message 24 of 50 (649902)
01-26-2012 12:00 PM
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01-26-2012 11:41 AM


Sloppy of me, try this:
Q. But I see order and design everywhere. Order and design requires a designer doesn't it?
But you do not see design everywhere. You see order; you infer design.
But this inference is not necessarily correct --- if you see the order in a snowflake, you would be wrong to infer design by Jack Frost; we know that this order is produced by natural processes.
That's not as pithy as one would wish, but there's two mistakes packed into the same question.

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Message 25 of 50 (649912)
01-26-2012 2:09 PM
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01-26-2012 12:00 PM


...which begs the next question
Q. but snowflakes show design, even if the process of forming them is natural, something had to create the process that forms them naturally.
And so on until you get to 'something can't come from nothing'

Life, don't talk to me about life - Marvin the Paranoid Android

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Message 26 of 50 (649915)
01-26-2012 2:19 PM
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01-26-2012 2:09 PM


Q. but snowflakes show design, even if the process of forming them is natural, something had to create the process that forms them naturally.
A1. Assertion is not evidence; it is not even argument.
A2. So you're a deist now, or what? If you will admit that the process of forming the various kinds of organisms was completely natural, then since I was arguing for evolution, rather than against deism, I win.
Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.

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Message 27 of 50 (649920)
01-26-2012 2:37 PM
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01-26-2012 2:19 PM


A1. Assertion is not evidence; it is not even argument.
Oh yes it is. (just saying....)
A2. So you're a deist now, or what? If you will admit that the process of forming the various kinds of organisms was completely natural, then since I was arguing for evolution, rather than against deism, I win.
I doubt that 1 in 10 fundies know what a Deist or a Theist is. Certainly you'd have to explain painfully that you can't make the logic leap from believing that some sort of god created the universe to 'and he loves you and cares for you, answers your prayers and is called Allah etc etc'.
And anyway, I believe that everything we see around us was created, not evolved and your bloody snow flake or crystal or whatever just shows that he's got an eye for detail and is damn good at it. Obviously design needs a designer.
Not rational you see.....

Life, don't talk to me about life - Marvin the Paranoid Android

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Message 28 of 50 (649992)
01-26-2012 9:20 PM
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01-23-2012 10:12 PM


herebedragons writes:
It would be nice to have some simple rebuttals to arguments like hydro-logic sorting.
"Tornado in a junkyard!".
errr... would you believe aerodynamic sorting?

DWIII

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Message 29 of 50 (650001)
01-26-2012 11:29 PM
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01-26-2012 12:00 PM


All Bow to Jack Frost
But this inference is not necessarily correct --- if you see the order in a snowflake, you would be wrong to infer design by Jack Frost; we know that this order is produced by natural processes.
Oh yeah, can you prove Jack Frost doesn't exist?

Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. - Francis Bacon

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Message 30 of 50 (650125)
01-27-2012 7:51 PM
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01-26-2012 11:29 PM


if anyone wants a list
Pratt list from Talk Origins
An Index to Creationist Claims
For instance:
quote:
Claim CH581:
The Grand Canyon was created suddenly by the retreating waters of Noah's Flood.
Which is why it goes through a high point of the ridge.
Enjoy.

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