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Modulous Member (Idle past 1334 days) Posts: 7789 From: Manchester, UK Joined: |
Nah - evolution can be true AND energy conservation could be false. Evolution doesn't rely on the principle of energy conservation to work. In fact, that it can work under the constraint of energy conservation is a bonus. Though I must congratulate you - it's refreshing to hear 'Evolution operates within the laws of thermodynamics' rather than 'Evolution requires breaking the laws of thermodynamics to work'.
Thaumaturgy is like that. It can be invoked to explain anything and as such, explains nothing.
I see no reason it cannot be measured in principle. Hormone levels, neuronal excitement levels etc.
I don't see why, just because something is not part of nature, it must ALWAYS violate the conservation laws of nature. It could be possible that there any conservation laws that actually apply to both domains.
F = ma is only true if you are using SI units, or performing appropriate conversions. Otherwise it's just F ∝ ma. Your K is not SI, indeed it represents a number that "can not be measured by Standard Instruments.", so you can just assert you can bungle it in the equation. But you are using it as if has the units of kg m/s2 - so all you need to do is measure, using standard instruments how much acceleration it provides a mass. Add to this problem, the slight issue that all measurements we have ever derived for K make K=0, and you may as well just leave it out of the equation.
Should be justified within this thread. A poorly written paper on researchgate is not going to fly here. I mean seriously, what kind of proof includes this: quote: Anyway - you have not presented a compelling argument here. Would you like to try a second time?
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Modulous Member (Idle past 1334 days) Posts: 7789 From: Manchester, UK Joined: |
How did you reach this conclusion?
There may be conservation laws in Heaven of course, and those laws may be what cause natural conservation laws to exist. You have no way of knowing either way. Additionally - there can be spiritual existence without Heaven.
I see no evidence that Dark Matter does not have a natural source. Do you have something beyond your assertion on this?
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Modulous Member (Idle past 1334 days) Posts: 7789 From: Manchester, UK Joined: |
OK, but how do you know there aren't conservation laws in Heaven? Not 'natural laws' but 'spiritual laws'....laws that are either shared with nature or laws that give rise to the natural laws or laws that are similar to, but different than natural laws or any other possibilities....
This is not evidence that Dark Matter has no natural source. It's evidence that Dark Matter is difficult to detect.
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Modulous Member (Idle past 1334 days) Posts: 7789 From: Manchester, UK Joined: |
How do you know this?
It'd probably be best if you submitted it for peer review to a journal on the Master Journal List so someone who gets paid to wade through that can take the time to do it. If you can't bring your argument here, I'm not going to address it. Creation Science Magic however, can be invoked to explain anything a man would like. I've seen it done, it's quite trivial.
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Modulous Member (Idle past 1334 days) Posts: 7789 From: Manchester, UK Joined: |
A speculative condition which we cannot resolve.
If you are saying that your theorem quote: doesn't matter - then I agree. But you haven't advanced the argument that laws of nature are violated.
Erm, no. They are only violated if something happens in one domain that is against the rules that dominate that domain. If someone does something in Heaven that would be a violation of natural laws - no violation has taken place since Heaven is not the natural world. In analogy - I could be breaking (and almost certainly am) the law in Saudi Arabia - but no violation has really occurred because I'm not in Saudi Arabia. That said, if you really want to call some event in Heaven a violation of natural laws - then that's fine I can work with that. We just need to understand how you know that the event happened. But if you want to say all events always break a specific law - then you have a lot more work to do to demonstrate that universal statement.
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Modulous Member (Idle past 1334 days) Posts: 7789 From: Manchester, UK Joined: |
Well I'd argue in that situation that we're simply mistaken about the law, not that a law of nature was violated. For instance, Relativity already shows us Newtonian laws are only an approximation - thus fast moving objects 'violate' Newtonian laws - but that's because Newtonian laws are just human approximations of actual natural law. If am=F + K is accurate then that's the natural law. But more to the point - how does this advance your argument? We haven't ascertained that K, should it exist, is spiritual - nor have we verified that K is not zero.
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Modulous Member (Idle past 1334 days) Posts: 7789 From: Manchester, UK Joined: |
Well proving God would be a start, yes. Because if the Omniscient Being does not exist, there is nothing that knows of its existence.
OK. And how does this advance your argument?
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Modulous Member (Idle past 1334 days) Posts: 7789 From: Manchester, UK Joined: |
Yes, OK. How does this advance your argument?
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1) The rotation of stars in galaxies. Based purely on the amount of luminous matter - they should be rotating slower on the edges than in the middle if our understanding of orbital physics is accurate. We're pretty confident in that understanding. They aren't rotating this way and this is best explained by something exerting a gravitational influence that does not give off light. 2) Galaxy clusters. We can observe the relative motion of galaxies that exist in clusters and this too suggests there is more mass present than can be accounted for by the amount of light being given off. 3) Gravitational lensing. The degree of gravitational lensing from galaxies and galaxy clusters suggests there is more mass present than can be accounted for by the amount of light being given off. 4) Variations in Cosmic Background Radiation. These variations are caused by gravitational influence and we can see variations that cannot be explained by baryonic matter (ie., not Dark Matter). These four (and there are more) observations can all be explained by the existence of Dark Matter. Adding a solution to one of them that uses Dark Matter also basically solves the others. That is - the amount of Dark Matter required to solve all of these problems is the same. Parsimony tells us this is likely due to the fact that Dark Matter is a real phenomenon. Since evidence is that which increases the likelihood of a thing being true, this constitutes evidence that Dark Matter exists.
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Modulous Member (Idle past 1334 days) Posts: 7789 From: Manchester, UK Joined: |
Wrong.
The fact that including it in the equations balances them out, even though the equations are all different is compelling evidence, however.
Dark Matter is about 27%. Let me know how one would go about finding something that is invisible.
Can you plug it into the equations and produce answers that correspond to observations? No? It appears you are using the methodology humans have employed for thousands of years despite the fact that it continues to fail. God did it has been proposed for all manner of phenomena and we continuously find out it was something other than a deity doing it. Methods this flawed are useless. If you want to say that God is a weakly interacting material whose only influence on the universe is the extremely weak force of gravity - you can do. I'd have thought the Strong Nuclear Force was a better candidate for God holding everything together than gravity via Dark Matter. Of course, battle of the bible bits is what you think is needed here let me remind you that 'my God will enlighten my darkness.', "God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.".
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Modulous Member (Idle past 1334 days) Posts: 7789 From: Manchester, UK Joined: |
Well yeah - it doesn't include God. You have to plug God into the equation and explain the structure of the universe, the rotation of galaxies, the CMBR perturbations, gravitational lenses etc etc. Otherwise you aren't saying anything useful - you are just replacing the phrase 'Dark Matter' with 'God'. Which is a great way to obtain equivocation, but not clarity.
Well I believe the Bible says it, but I don't believe what the Bible says. However, it does highlight a theological issue with calling 'Dark Matter' God since Dark Matter's defining property is not giving off light and giving off light is one of God's defining properties.
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