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starman Inactive Member |
? You think you know dates for each chapter of Genesis? What we take your word for it?
To anyone having some actual point of discussion or debate....I will check my blog. I am suspending EVC from my posts for a few weeks or maybe forever, we'll see. end transmission Edited by starman, : No reason given.
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Stile Member Posts: 4295 From: Ontario, Canada Joined:
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starman writes: You admit all you do is believe the forces and laws were the same. Almost, but you're missing the important part. What I'm doing is acting as if the forces and laws were the same.Then, we make progress. If there are any issues... then the actions will show them. Then, perhaps this idea includes an error. In which case, we adjust the beliefs.If there are no issues... then perhaps this idea is valid. In which case, we continue to make progress. Science has been acting on the idea that the stars are far away for hundreds of years.Much progress has been made. More progress is ongoing. No issues have been identified yet. As long as there are no issues while acting like the stars are far away, science will continue to act as if the stars are far away.As long as there are no issues while acting like your computer runs software, science will continue to act as if your computer runs software. How long do you work with something before you simply accept that it's true?You seem to be able to do this with software running on your computer, but not with stars being far away. Science has been accepting that stars are far away much longer than science has been accepting that software runs on your computer. Still no issues. Perhaps you could be the first to identify an issue, though. Feel free to try.
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Percy Member Posts: 22504 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 4.9 |
If I could quibble a bit with your wording:
Stile writes: Science has been accepting that stars are far away... It's just about the word "accepting." We have hard evidence for how far away stars are, with the error ranges growing with increasing distance. There's also something called the cosmic distance ladder. It starts with the distances to close stars established through the parallax of Earth's orbit (e.g., Alpha Centauri) as a basis for establishing the distance to more distant stars, and moves outward from there using a variety of techniques. I'd have the same quibble with the word "accepting" in the other half of your sentence:
...much longer than science has been accepting that software runs on your computer. I think we have pretty solid evidence that software runs on computers. Unless he's in some facet of the computer industry, my guess is that Starman accepts that software runs on his computer because that's what everyone else thinks, not because he has any personal experience with the details behind writing/compiling/loading software. Starman wasn't investing any time understanding people's posts. There was no discussion. He was mostly just tossing off one and two sentence content-free responses. --Percy
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1434 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
Perhaps you could be the first to identify an issue, though. Feel free to try. starman has run away from the debates. So don't hold your breath. Enjoyby our ability to understand Rebel☮American☆Zen☯Deist ... to learn ... to think ... to live ... to laugh ... to share. Join the effort to solve medical problems, AIDS/HIV, Cancer and more with Team EvC! (click)
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Stile Member Posts: 4295 From: Ontario, Canada Joined:
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Percy writes: Stile writes: Science has been accepting that stars are far away... It's just about the word "accepting." Ha ha Yes, Science certainly holds stars being far away as a now-mundane evidentially validated fact as much as software running on a computer is a now-mundane evidentially validated fact.Same with RAZD's nice expansion on the Scientific Method I previously dumbed down to "running on assumptions." I was trying to use words that would appeal to starman while also at least touching on "the spirit" of scientific concepts.
Starman wasn't investing any time understanding people's posts. There was no discussion. He was mostly just tossing off one and two sentence content-free responses. Oh, for sure.I'm not actually trying to appeal to starman. More like... using starman's posts as a jumping-off point and then attempting to form some sort of description that would appeal to "someone similar to starman, but looking to learn." I think there's value in replying to starman's posts.I don't think there's any value in replying to starman
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Percy Member Posts: 22504 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 4.9
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Stile writes: Oh, for sure.I'm not actually trying to appeal to starman. More like... using starman's posts as a jumping-off point and then attempting to form some sort of description that would appeal to "someone similar to starman, but looking to learn." I think there's value in replying to starman's posts.I don't think there's any value in replying to starman Yeah, that sums it up pretty well. That's a good approach with some people. You know you're not going to convince them, or even get them to engage, but it sure is fun lining up all the ducks of an argument for the benefit of others. --Percy
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Tangle Member Posts: 9514 From: UK Joined: Member Rating: 4.8 |
Percy writes: but it sure is fun lining up all the ducks of an argument for the benefit of others. Is it? Really? Maybe the first few times, but over and over again, often with the same immature ignoramouses spraying crap on the forum then leaving for 6 months then returning to do it again? I wonder. The excuse for feeding the obvious troll is that it's for the benefit others. I seriously doubt that. I think it's really for the benefit of the writer. It's to demonstrate their overall superiority of argument. 'To hone my skills' as admitted by one poster. Overall it seems a preposterous waste of time, no meeting of minds, no development of argument, no increase of understanding or knowledge, just endless, repetitive posturing on both sides.Je suis Charlie. Je suis Ahmed. Je suis Juif. Je suis Parisien. I am Mancunian. I am Brum. I am London.I am Finland. Soy Barcelona "Life, don't talk to me about life" - Marvin the Paranoid Android "Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved." - Tim Minchin, in his beat poem, Storm.
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jar Member (Idle past 423 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
The other option is to allow the utter nonsense that is Young Earth or Creationism or Biblical Christianity to stand as though it had any value or worth.
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Dogmafood Member (Idle past 378 days) Posts: 1815 From: Ontario Canada Joined: |
Overall it seems a preposterous waste of time, no meeting of minds, no development of argument, no increase of understanding or knowledge, just endless, repetitive posturing on both sides. You are getting cynical in your old age Tangle, there is no end to the battle for truth in advertising and we must persevere. The mind that is informed by reason above emotion will surely prevail but we need as many of those as we can get and you get them by pointing out the evidence.
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Tangle Member Posts: 9514 From: UK Joined: Member Rating: 4.8
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Jar writes: The other option is to allow the utter nonsense that is Young Earth or Creationism or Biblical Christianity to stand as though it had any value or worth. That's not the only option. You make the arguments fully once, twice, maybe three times then when it becomes absolutely obvious that you're dealing with a hopeless troll you just ignore him. It'd be a few hundred pages less crap on the forum. These idiots all disapear eventually, normally by getting banned. Starman will return again in 6 months and we'll do it all again. Pointless.Je suis Charlie. Je suis Ahmed. Je suis Juif. Je suis Parisien. I am Mancunian. I am Brum. I am London.I am Finland. Soy Barcelona "Life, don't talk to me about life" - Marvin the Paranoid Android "Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved." - Tim Minchin, in his beat poem, Storm.
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Aussie Member Posts: 275 From: FL USA Joined: |
I am suspending EVC from my posts for a few weeks or maybe forever, we'll see. Translate: I'm running away. "...heck is a small price to pay for the truth"
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1434 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined:
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Translate: I'm running away. Probably claiming victory somewhere, because, hey, nobody would debate him ... LOLby our ability to understand Rebel☮American☆Zen☯Deist ... to learn ... to think ... to live ... to laugh ... to share. Join the effort to solve medical problems, AIDS/HIV, Cancer and more with Team EvC! (click)
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Aussie Member Posts: 275 From: FL USA Joined: |
Yeah, I posted my running away observation before I read your response, but I find it exceedingly likely he is claiming victory. And the ones listening to him claim victory will in all likelihood not bother to fact check said claim to victory, but believe it outright. And the cycle continues...
"...heck is a small price to pay for the truth"
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Pressie Member Posts: 2103 From: Pretoria, SA Joined:
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That's how they work.
Creationism through stealth. For example, more and more people in the world know know that Steve Austin wrote under the name of Stuart E. Nevins well before the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption. He runs away screaming like a scared little 2-year old girl when confronted with that fact. Yet, he continues pretending otherwise.
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5952 Joined: Member Rating: 5.2
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I read some of his Nevins stuff. Like "this formation is this many feet thick and was supposed to have formed over this many years, so geologists believe that it formed at a uniformly constant rate of a hundredth of an inch per year." An outright lie since any geology student after the first year would know better and here he was a graduate student already. He knew better, so he was lying deliberately. Typical creationist.
Since then, he knows what conditions will cause problems for radiometric dating, so those are the samples that he seeks out. Again, lying deliberately. Typical creationist.
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