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Author Topic:   Applying Ocam's Razor To BB vs Biblical ID Creationism and EvC
crashfrog
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Message 4 of 38 (662910)
05-19-2012 4:44 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Buzsaw
05-19-2012 3:36 PM


Ocams Razor renders the simplest explanation as the more likely explanation of phenomena, etc.
Sure, that's one way to put it. The classic formulation is "do not unnecessarily multiply entities."
According to 1LoT, the Universe is infinite in time, including it's constant unchanging amount of energy.
No, it's not, and a finite universe is simpler than an infinite one (less entities; infinitely less entities, in fact.) So Occam's Razor suggests that we should posit a finite universe.
According to Genesis one and the Biblical record, the infinite Biblical god, Jehovah who resides in the cosmos of the Universe resides in an infinite time Universe, having infinite stable amount of energy, as per 1LoT, which eminates from him, ever changing form.
Since "God" is, in Laplace's famous formulation, unneeded as a hypothesis, Occam's Razor suggests that we do not posit the existence of a God, Biblical or otherwise. Occam's Razor suggests atheism.
As is most commonly (I say, commonly) observed, physically, chaos does not spontaniously progress into order by natural means void of ID.
Crystals - a highly ordered form of matter - are trivially observed to spontaneously form from liquid solutions. Liquids are highly disordered. Order can be observed to arise from disorder every winter, or in the formation of rock candy as a simple syrup cools on the counter. These happen regardless of the presence of any intelligence. Occam's razor therefore suggests that order arises naturally from disorder under specific conditions.
Chaotic iron ore does not emerge naturally into forged tools, etc
Strictly speaking, the pure iron, being crystalline and therefore brittle, is highly ordered. Smiths make tools by alloying iron with impurities (carbon, vanadium, other rare earth metals) and inducing it, by cycles of heating and cooling, to become highly disordered and random in structure. The more a steel is disordered on a molecular level, the stronger it is.
Tool steel doesn't naturally reform into ore, so that should indicate to you the direction of increasing entropy. Smiths shape tools by inducing iron to adopt a more entropic configuration - to become highly disordered.

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crashfrog
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Message 8 of 38 (662914)
05-19-2012 6:40 PM
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05-19-2012 6:31 PM


Re: Pertaining To 1LoT
The closed infinite time and space system is one of unbounded space, space having no visible properties capable of bounding space.
Space can easily be finite without being bounded. The surface of a sphere is an example of a structure finite in area, but without any borders at all. Space might very well be the same. Indeed, a cursory examination of the night sky should serve to prove that the universe must be finite in time and space; looking into an infinite universe at any point in the sky, your vision would terminate in a star no matter where you looked. Since the night sky is not a uniform sea of bright starlight, but a lightless void punctuated by the occasional star, we know that the universe is finite in time and space.

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crashfrog
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Message 13 of 38 (662919)
05-19-2012 9:03 PM
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05-19-2012 8:56 PM


Re: Applying Dimensions
There you go again, tipically applying a 2D model to a 3D system.
I assumed you had the imagination and intelligence to apply the notion to a 3D space, but I see I was mistaken. The mathematics is equally applicable; a volume can be finite but unbounded just as an area can, since volume is just the integration of area over distance.
Calculus makes a lot of things possible. I eschewed math early in my college career, but recently forced myself to complete it. It was surprisingly rewarding and I continue to reap the benefits.

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crashfrog
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Message 22 of 38 (662928)
05-19-2012 10:31 PM
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05-19-2012 10:19 PM


Re: Pertaining To 1LoT
You will note that I emphasied BY AND LARGE
Then you've committed the fallacy of the looming caveat; crystals are incredibly common, most elements and compounds can be induced to adopt a crystalline structure under quite prosaic conditions, and usually they do so because the enthalpy change of the system under those conditions as it crystalizes exceeds the entropy loss.
That happens all over the place, Buz, and it's not just something you can sweepingly dismiss with a "by and large." It's a direct and omnipresent counterexample that you can't just pretend is nonexistent.

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crashfrog
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Message 23 of 38 (662929)
05-19-2012 10:32 PM
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05-19-2012 10:13 PM


Re: Applying Dimensions
To apply a 3 metrical dimenal model
Is this even meant to be English?

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