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Thought this would be interesting with all the religious discussions going on lately.

Educators Criticize Creation Museum - MSN Travel Articles

Educators Criticize Creation MuseumEducators Criticize Creation Museum
A new $27 million museum that tells a biblical version of the Earth’s creation is drawing fire from science educators, who say the exhibits are scientifically inaccurate.
By Dylan T. Lovan, AP

A museum where Adam and Eve share exhibit space with dinosaurs is drawing criticism from groups of science educators as it nears completion.

The $27 million Creation Museum, a few miles south of Cincinnati, tells a biblical version of the Earth's history, asserting that the planet is just a few thousand years old and man and the giant lizards once coexisted.

The educators say its exhibits, inspired by the Old Testament, are geared toward children but lack scientific evidence.

"When they try to confuse (kids) about what is science and what isn't science, scientists have an obligation to speak out," said Lawrence Krauss, an author and physics professor at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. "There's no doubt these are documented lies."

Krauss has signed one of two petitions circulated by national groups this week that challenge the facility's exhibits.

The museum, built by the nonprofit ministry Answers in Genesis with private donations, includes a 200-seat special-effects theater, a 40-foot-tall depiction of Noah's Ark and robotic, roaring dinosaurs. The 60,000 square-foot facility in rural Petersburg, Ky., opened to the public on Memorial Day with over 4,000 visitors, according to the museum's website.

Answers in Genesis founder Ken Ham said the vast majority of natural history museums and textbooks available to students are devoted to teaching evolution.

"And they're worried about one creation museum?" he said. "I think they're really concerned that we're going to get information out that they don't want people to hear."

Ham said critics need to tour the museum before making judgments.

One of the petitions, started by the Campaign to Defend the Constitution, a Washington, D.C., group that focuses on church and state issues, says the museum is part of a "campaign by the religious right to inject creationist teachings into science education."

Krauss said about 2,000 educators, mostly university-level, have signed the petition. A second petition from the National Center for Science Education sent to educators in Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio had attracted support from nearly 600 university professors. It says there are scientifically inaccurate exhibits at the museum.

"The nature of the science process that's presented at the Answers in Genesis museum is very different from how science is really done by real scientists," said Eugenie Scott, executive director of the Oakland, Calif., group, which promotes the teaching of evolution in the classroom.

Scientists say Earth is several billion years old, and that the first dinosaurs appeared around 200 million years ago, dying out well before the first human ancestors arose a few million years ago.

Ham maintains the museum exhibits, some of which include fossils, are based on scientific findings. He said the staff is stocked with scientists trained at secular universities.

"We use the same science they do," Ham said. "What they're really saying is they disagree with our beliefs about history, about the Bible, but we use the same science and genetics they do."

Scott, Krauss and others said Ham has a right to open the museum, but they are concerned with the effect it could have on science education in public schools.

"We're not talking about free speech. We would not protest the museum," said Alan Leshner, head of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which publishes the journal Science. "However, we are concerned that we not mislead young people inadvertently or intentionally about what science is showing."

Ham said the museum will attract home-schooled kids and students from Christian schools, but he said there are no plans to reach out to public schools. Admission for children ages 5 to 12 will be $9.95, and $19.95 for most adults.

"We're not targeting the public schools," Ham said. "I suspect by intimidation and threats of lawsuits, I doubt whether public school students, as an official tour, would come."

Ham said the museum will draw an estimated 250,000 visitors in its first year, and TV and newspaper advertising will begin soon in six major metro areas.

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CREATION MUSEUM: Creation Museum - Creation Museum, 800-778-3390. Location: 2800 Bullittsburg Church Rd., Petersburg, Kent.; in Greater Cincinnati off I-275 (exit 11), just west of the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport. Admission: Adults, $19.95; seniors, $14.95; children 5-12, $9.95; children under 5, free; planetarium with admission, $5. Hours: Mon.-Sat. 10 a.m.–6 p.m. and Sun. 12 p.m.–6 p.m.; closed Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas, New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.
 
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^^^^^ with a post like that it seems like the pot calling the kettle black.
 
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I must be one of those religious idiots then.Its tough to oppose the secular humanist mindset and system but thats what I believe.

And Ill not call anyone an idiot for having different beliefs but thats because I have class.:D
 
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yes....i believe people that believe dinosaurs and humans existed at the same time are idiots...

you dont?
 
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I must be one of those religious idiots then.Its tough to oppose the secular humanist mindset and system but thats what I believe.

And Ill not call anyone an idiot for having different beliefs but thats because I have class.:D
ill choose science over religious dogma anyday.

its when religion tries to oust science as the source of truth that i become agitated, as should anyone else with half a brain.

do you want your kids going to this museum?
 
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ill choose science over religious dogma anyday.

its when religion tries to oust science as the source of truth that i become agitated, as should anyone else with half a brain.

do you want your kids going to this museum?

I would have no issues at all with my kids going to this museum. I also think creationism should be taught in school along side of evolution. Evolution is only a scientific theory, so the theory that is depicted in the Bible should be taught as well. It's funny how the scientific are so liberal in their thinking and ways, but when it comes to the Bible their so close-minded.
 
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Well if you really looked at science you could make up your own mind.If you question its authenticity then investigate it yourself.


How is it possible to have a fossil of a human foot print in a dinosaur track?

If each 1 of the clearly defined layers of rock was layed over millions of yrs how can a fossilized tree that must be starved of 02 to keep from decaying be found running verticaly through numerous layers of rock?Did it last for 200 million yrs in an upright position so that these layers could form?Looks like the work of a global flood.

If coal takes million of yrs to form how could human artifacts have been found in it?

How are there pictures painted of dinosaurs by Central and south American cultures (Aztecs,Incas...) if they never saw them?

Check out some creation sites and then make a judgement call.Spewing hate doesnt bode well for anyone or there cause whether right or wrong.
 
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Well if you really looked at science you could make up your own mind.If you question its authenticity then investigate it yourself.


How is it possible to have a fossil of a human foot print in a dinosaur track?

If each 1 of the clearly defined layers of rock was layed over millions of yrs how can a fossilized tree that must be starved of 02 to keep from decaying be found running verticaly through numerous layers of rock?Did it last for 200 million yrs in an upright position so that these layers could form?Looks like the work of a global flood.

If coal takes million of yrs to form how could human artifacts have been found in it?

How are there pictures painted of dinosaurs by Central and south American cultures (Aztecs,Incas...) if they never saw them?

Check out some creation sites and then make a judgement call.Spewing hate doesnt bode well for anyone or there cause whether right or wrong.

so humans and dinosaurs did exist together at some point in time?

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I would have no issues at all with my kids going to this museum. I also think creationism should be taught in school along side of evolution. Evolution is only a scientific theory, so the theory that is depicted in the Bible should be taught as well. It's funny how the scientific are so liberal in their thinking and ways, but when it comes to the Bible their so close-minded.
I think you need to recheck your understanding of the word "theory".

Creationism does not qualify as a theory, nor is there any objective evidence that would qualify it to be taught in a "science" class.
 
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I think you need to recheck your understanding of the word "theory".

Creationism does not qualify as a theory, nor is there any objective evidence that would qualify it to be taught in a "science" class.
creationism is religious dogma. it is written, literally as a story, to try and explain how the world as we know it exists.

it has no scientific backing. what scares me is that religion and science have stood on opposing sides for centuries. 1 vs the other.

science always inevitably wins, because it is based on fact and not on a story. now that religious leaders realize this, they are fabricating scientific fact to back up their "theories".

is is truly ludicrous, and i completely understand the outcry of the scientific community.
 
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The term "Dinosaur" was created fairly recently in human history. Prior to 1841, Dinosaurs were referred to as "Dragons". Marco Polo, for instance, claimed that the Emperor of China raised Dragons to pull his chariots in parades. If your interest has been piqued, go ahead and search, since we have the internet, for any number of recorded historical encounters with dragons and see if it doesn't match up perfectly with certain Dinosaurs.
 
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"theory".A set of statements or principles devised to explain a group of facts or phenomena, especially one that has been repeatedly tested or is widely accepted and can be used to make predictions about natural phenomena.


When has evolution ever been repeatedly tested?

So predictions about evolution are based on what?

I especially like the devised to explain part.:thumbsup: :duel:
 

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I would have no issues at all with my kids going to this museum. I also think creationism should be taught in school along side of evolution. Evolution is only a scientific theory, so the theory that is depicted in the Bible should be taught as well. It's funny how the scientific are so liberal in their thinking and ways, but when it comes to the Bible their so close-minded.
oh jeez...

The biology of evolution is fact. The mechanism of evolution is theory. There is no doubt that evolution does occur.

Creation in NOT A THEORY!
 

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Well if you really looked at science you could make up your own mind.If you question its authenticity then investigate it yourself.


How is it possible to have a fossil of a human foot print in a dinosaur track?

If each 1 of the clearly defined layers of rock was layed over millions of yrs how can a fossilized tree that must be starved of 02 to keep from decaying be found running verticaly through numerous layers of rock?Did it last for 200 million yrs in an upright position so that these layers could form?Looks like the work of a global flood.

If coal takes million of yrs to form how could human artifacts have been found in it?

How are there pictures painted of dinosaurs by Central and south American cultures (Aztecs,Incas...) if they never saw them?

Check out some creation sites and then make a judgement call.Spewing hate doesnt bode well for anyone or there cause whether right or wrong.
Do we really need to go here?

1. "How is it possible to have a fossil of a human foot print in a dinosaur track?"
It's not...
"For many years claims were made by strict creationists that human footprints or "giant man tracks" occur alongside dinosaur tracks in the limestone beds of the Paluxy River, near Glen Rose Texas. If true, such a finding would dramatically contradict the conventional geologic timetable, which holds that humans did not appear on earth until over 60 million years after the dinosaurs became extinct. However, the "man track" claims have not stood up to close scientific scrutiny, and have been abandoned even by most creationists. The supposed human tracks have involved a variety of phenomena, including forms of elongate (metatarsal) dinosaur tracks, erosional features, indistinct markings of uncertain origin, and some doctored and carved specimens (most of the latter on loose blocks of rock).

2. "If each 1 of the clearly defined layers of rock was layed over millions of yrs how can a fossilized tree that must be starved of 02 to keep from decaying be found running verticaly through numerous layers of rock?Did it last for 200 million yrs in an upright position so that these layers could form?Looks like the work of a global flood."

Or, most likely:
"They have natural explanations: tree-roots that grew into soft, underlying layers of clay, and fossils found in inclined strata.

"Malone, along with many "young Earth global flood creationists", have no idea that even data from the 19th century, presented by a creationist geologist is enough to demolish the "polystrate fossil trees" part of their presentation. "Polystrate fossil trees" are probably one of the weakest pieces of evidence YEGF creationists can offer for their interpretation."
 
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Well thats all well and good but why didnt these trees decompose? They just became fossilised while standing over millenia without decayor destruction by insects?

What about the artifacts with dinosaurs drawn on them?The Incas clearly painting tricerotops and brontosaurs was all accidentally factual and anotomically correct?

Where is there a transitional form of anything?Since these forms were "better suited due to the evo theory" then they should have out lived and profipherated while the lesser forms died out.But yet there are men and apes and nothing in the middle.

And talking about doctored evidence.How many missing link type apes had been doctored and proved fraudulent?
 
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Really? Science actually DOES support Creationism, big time. Read and learn:

http://anabolicminds.com/forum/general-chat/67528-does-science-support.html#post842953
Nothing in the article you posted has anything to do with science or the scientific method. I have zero problem with someone having their own personal religious beliefs. Great. But it is not science. I don't have a problem with classes on religion. However, religion is not science and, therefore, does not have a place in a science class. I would ask many of those that want to teach creationism or intelligent design in science classes, which religion's creation stories they would like to include? Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, Ancient Mayan, Aztez, etc, etc, etc. Religious beliefs, Christian "creationism" for example, cannot be tested by the scientific method, so are not science.

Religion is religion, science is science.
 

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Nothing in the article you posted has anything to do with science or the scientific method. I have zero problem with someone having their own personal religious beliefs. Great. But it is not science. I don't have a problem with classes on religion. However, religion is not science and, therefore, does not have a place in a science class. I would ask many of those that want to teach creationism or intelligent design in science classes, which religion's creation stories they would like to include? Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, Ancient Mayan, Aztez, etc, etc, etc. Religious beliefs, Christian "creationism" for example, cannot be tested by the scientific method, so are not science.

Religion is religion, science is science.
Here, here!

"Evolution does not violate the second law of thermodynamics. Order emerges from disorder all the time. Snowflakes form, trees grow, and embryos develop, etc"

Ugh...no transitional forms?
Here are a few:
Coelophysis (late Triassic) -- One of the first theropod dinosaurs. Theropods in general show clear general skeletal affinities with birds (long limbs, hollow bones, foot with 3 toes in front and 1 reversed toe behind, long ilium). Jurassic theropods like Compsognathus are particularly similar to birds.
Deinonychus, Oviraptor, and other advanced theropods (late Jurassic, Cretaceous) -- Predatory bipedal advanced theropods, larger, with more bird-like skeletal features: semilunate carpal, bony sternum, long arms, reversed pubis. Clearly runners, though, not fliers. These advanced theropods even had clavicles, sometimes fused as in birds. Says Clark (1992): "The detailed similarity between birds and theropod dinosaurs such as Deinonychus is so striking and so pervasive throughout the skeleton that a considerable amount of special pleading is needed to come to any conclusion other than that the sister-group of birds among fossils is one of several theropod dinosaurs." The particular fossils listed here are are not directly ancestral, though, as they occur after Archeopteryx.
Lisboasaurus estesi & other "troodontid dinosaur-birds" (mid-Jurassic) -- A bird-like theropod reptile with very bird-like teeth (that is, teeth very like those of early toothed birds, since modern birds have no teeth). These really could be ancestral
 

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Why is it that the Catholic Church accepts evolution as well as "most" Christians?

As always in these discussions, I have a few questions:

1. Where is the "Proof" of creation? (The Bible, and "look around you" isn't proof!)

2. Even if evolution was wrong, God isn't a valid explanation.

3. If God is "everywhere", we would have scientific proof of his existence.

4. How did Noah and his family build a gigantic boat (out of wood no less!) and take care of EVERY SINGLE SPECIES IN THE WORLD?!
 
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This debate is as old as the hills. But I will emphasize ONCE that name calling will not be tolerated. Express your different opinion with respect or don't express it at all.

Carry on!

PS: I've been a fool for Jesus on message boards before. I am confident that my fellow brothers will be fools for Him as well. ;)
 
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Well these so called transitional species are dead so that takes me back to my previous point.Were they transitional or just strange reptiles?


Where do you get that most Catholics and Christians in general believe in evo?This whole debate can be boiled down to this if one believes there is no Creator (God) then there must be another way to explain creation.

So everything that is came from what wasnt?That doesnt seem logical to me.It takes MUCH more faith to believe in evo than to believe in The Creator.
 
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Nothing in the article you posted has anything to do with science or the scientific method. I have zero problem with someone having their own personal religious beliefs. Great. But it is not science. I don't have a problem with classes on religion. However, religion is not science and, therefore, does not have a place in a science class. I would ask many of those that want to teach creationism or intelligent design in science classes, which religion's creation stories they would like to include? Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, Ancient Mayan, Aztez, etc, etc, etc. Religious beliefs, Christian "creationism" for example, cannot be tested by the scientific method, so are not science.

Religion is religion, science is science.
Maybe you should learn to read then! I said in the first sentence or two that "religion" had nothing to do with it, and yes, I gave plenty of science. Until you can answer the scientific questions I posed, don't bother dismissing it. Creationism is not a religion, it's an explanation of the observed universe.
 
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Here, here!

"Evolution does not violate the second law of thermodynamics. Order emerges from disorder all the time. Snowflakes form, trees grow, and embryos develop, etc"
lol, read it again! All your examples have a cause. they are all seeded or they wouldn't form smart guy. Thanks for providing even more evidence! Nothing can cause itself.
 

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Really? Science actually DOES support Creationism, big time. Read and learn:

http://anabolicminds.com/forum/general-chat/67528-does-science-support.html#post842953
"As far as the experts Strobel chose, he is, frankly, misleading about their qualifications. While he touts that all of the people he interviews are "doctorate-level", he doesn't mention that most of them are NOT doctorates in the fields they were interviewed! Rather, most of them have doctorates in philosophy or theology, and perhaps undergraduate degrees in a related science. But he is clearly leading the reader to believe he has picked doctorate-level experts in the fields they are being interviewed for, but, with a few exceptions, they are not. For each expert, Strobel spends at least a few paragraphs extolling the qualifications of his expert, while conveniently neglecting to mention that their doctorate is not in the field of discussion."

That's what I call good science! (Not! in Borat Accent)
 
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Why is it that the Catholic Church accepts evolution as well as "most" Christians?
I explained that too. Don't follow the church's opinion necessarily. Stop getting Truth and religion confused! God is God, no organization needed, period.
 
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Well these so called transitional species are dead so that takes me back to my previous point.Were they transitional or just strange reptiles?


Where do you get that most Catholics and Christians in general believe in evo?This whole debate can be boiled down to this if one believes there is no Creator (God) then there must be another way to explain creation.

So everything that is came from what wasnt?That doesnt seem logical to me.It takes MUCH more faith to believe in evo than to believe in The Creator.
the problem here is that 1 side is offering an answer, and the other isnt.

scientists- not sure how the universe was created
religious tards- god created it

personally, i am MUCH more comfortable with the scientific lack of explanation than something that is simply made up in a book.

btw there are dozens of creation stories...what makes the christian one correct???
 
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"As far as the experts Strobel chose, he is, frankly, misleading about their qualifications. While he touts that all of the people he interviews are "doctorate-level", he doesn't mention that most of them are NOT doctorates in the fields they were interviewed! Rather, most of them have doctorates in philosophy or theology, and perhaps undergraduate degrees in a related science. But he is clearly leading the reader to believe he has picked doctorate-level experts in the fields they are being interviewed for, but, with a few exceptions, they are not. For each expert, Strobel spends at least a few paragraphs extolling the qualifications of his expert, while conveniently neglecting to mention that their doctorate is not in the field of discussion."

That's what I call good science! (Not! in Borat Accent)
Well, I will certainly investigate that and weigh that accordingly, nonetheless, facts are facts and just because you feel they lack the qualifications to state them does not preclude reality. I may not be qualified to change a tire, but if I do, it is nonetheless changed and can not be denied.
 

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lol, read it again! All your examples have a cause. they are all seeded or they wouldn't form smart guy. Thanks for providing even more evidence! Nothing can cause itself.
"The second law of thermodynamics says no such thing. It says that heat will not spontaneously flow from a colder body to a warmer one or, equivalently, that total entropy (a measure of useful energy) in a closed system will not decrease. This does not prevent increasing order because
the earth is not a closed system; sunlight (with low entropy) shines on it and heat (with higher entropy) radiates off. This flow of energy, and the change in entropy that accompanies it, can and will power local decreases in entropy on earth.
entropy is not the same as disorder. Sometimes the two correspond, but sometimes order increases as entropy increases. (Aranda-Espinoza et al. 1999; Kestenbaum 1998) Entropy can even be used to produce order, such as in the sorting of molecules by size (Han and Craighead 2000).
even in a closed system, pockets of lower entropy can form if they are offset by increased entropy elsewhere in the system.
In short, order from disorder happens on earth all the time.

The only processes necessary for evolution to occur are reproduction, heritable variation, and selection. All of these are seen to happen all the time, so, obviously, no physical laws are preventing them. In fact, connections between evolution and entropy have been studied in depth, and never to the detriment of evolution (Demetrius 2000).

Several scientists have proposed that evolution and the origin of life is driven by entropy (McShea 1998). Some see the information content of organisms subject to diversification according to the second law (Brooks and Wiley 1988), so organisms diversify to fill empty niches much as a gas expands to fill an empty container. Others propose that highly ordered complex systems emerge and evolve to dissipate energy (and increase overall entropy) more efficiently (Schneider and Kay 1994)."

"Creationists themselves make claims that directly contradict their claims about the second law of thermodynamics, such as hydrological sorting of fossils during the Flood."
 

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Well, I will certainly investigate that and weigh that accordingly, nonetheless, facts are facts and just because you feel they lack the qualifications to state them does not preclude reality. I may not be qualified to change a tire, but if I do, it is nonetheless changed and can not be denied.
Who would you rather do open heart surgery on you?
a) Board Certified Surgeon of 20 years
b) Joe Schmoe 1st year of med school
 
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the problem here is that 1 side is offering an answer, and the other isnt.

scientists- not sure how the universe was created
religious tards- god created it

personally, i am MUCH more comfortable with the scientific lack of explanation than something that is simply made up in a book.

btw there are dozens of creation stories...what makes the christian one correct???
My goodness J, you indeed are qualified to speak on the issue of "tards" as you so elequently put it! :)
 
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Who would you rather do open heart surgery on you?
a) Board Certified Surgeon of 20 years
b) Joe Schmoe 1st year of med school
I would elect (C) the best man for the job! You can emphasize credentials and rightly so, but that can't be the whole basis of your argument. It's simply not always the case.
 
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My goodness J, you indeed are qualified to speak on the issue of "tards" as you so elequently put it! :)
maybe you can teach me to "pulse" m1t while i get started on my tard write up:dance:
 

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I explained that too. Don't follow the church's opinion necessarily. Stop getting Truth and religion confused! God is God, no organization needed, period.
So you don't have a "religion" you just follow your own drum?
Truth meaning.....?

FYI:
"When the pope came to the subject of the scientific merits of evolution, it soon became clear how much things had changed in the nearly since the Vatican last addressed the issue. John Paul said:


Today, almost half a century after publication of the encyclical, new knowledge has led to the recognition of the theory of evolution as more than a hypothesis. It is indeed remarkable that this theory has been progressively accepted by researchers, following a series of discoveries in various fields of knowledge. The convergence, neither sought nor fabricated, of the results of work that was conducted independently is in itself a significant argument in favor of the theory.


Evolution, a doctrine that Pius XII only acknowledged as an unfortunate possibility, John Paul accepts forty-six years later “as an effectively proven fact.” (ROA, 82)"
 
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scientists- not sure how the universe was created
religious tards- god created it the maturity level is astounding.Being a biology major Id figure you would have something more appropriate to say than that.

personally, i am MUCH more comfortable with the scientific lack of explanation (so you do have a faith system)than something that is simply made up in a book. like the theory of evolution?
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I would elect (C) the best man for the job! You can emphasize credentials and rightly so, but that can't be the whole basis of your argument. It's simply not always the case.
Which would be choice a)

So you're going to believe those who don't specialize (or have extensive education) in the topics they are discussing, rather than those that have doctorates IN that topic??
 
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"The second law of thermodynamics says no such thing. It says that heat will not spontaneously flow from a colder body to a warmer one or, equivalently, that total entropy (a measure of useful energy) in a closed system will not decrease. This does not prevent increasing order because
the earth is not a closed system; sunlight (with low entropy) shines on it and heat (with higher entropy) radiates off. This flow of energy, and the change in entropy that accompanies it, can and will power local decreases in entropy on earth.
entropy is not the same as disorder. Sometimes the two correspond, but sometimes order increases as entropy increases. (Aranda-Espinoza et al. 1999; Kestenbaum 1998) Entropy can even be used to produce order, such as in the sorting of molecules by size (Han and Craighead 2000).
even in a closed system, pockets of lower entropy can form if they are offset by increased entropy elsewhere in the system.
In short, order from disorder happens on earth all the time.

The only processes necessary for evolution to occur are reproduction, heritable variation, and selection. All of these are seen to happen all the time, so, obviously, no physical laws are preventing them. In fact, connections between evolution and entropy have been studied in depth, and never to the detriment of evolution (Demetrius 2000).

Several scientists have proposed that evolution and the origin of life is driven by entropy (McShea 1998). Some see the information content of organisms subject to diversification according to the second law (Brooks and Wiley 1988), so organisms diversify to fill empty niches much as a gas expands to fill an empty container. Others propose that highly ordered complex systems emerge and evolve to dissipate energy (and increase overall entropy) more efficiently (Schneider and Kay 1994)."

"Creationists themselves make claims that directly contradict their claims about the second law of thermodynamics, such as hydrological sorting of fossils during the Flood."
I am speaking of Universal law, not simply planetary conditions. The universe is finite and the Second Law does apply, necessarily. Nothing comes from nothing. Something can NOT come from nothing, not of itself. That's not your personal, everyday observation is it? You seem sensible so be honest with yourself and be sensible. Look, I don't belong to a church, I am not fond or religion either! But don't take it out on reality, please.
 

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I am speaking of Universal law, not simply planetary conditions. The universe is finite and the Second Law does apply, necessarily. Nothing comes from nothing. Something can NOT come from nothing, not of itself. That's not your personal, everyday observation is it? You seem sensible so be honest with yourself and be sensible. Look, I don't belong to a church, I am not fond or religion either! But don't take it out on reality, please.
where do your beliefs come from (if not from church/religion)?
Your parents?

Apparently, God can come from nothing though...
 
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Which would be choice a)

So you're going to believe those who don't specialize (or have extensive education) in the topics they are discussing, rather than those that have doctorates IN that topic??
Hey, I don't specialize! I'm a freakin physicist that only minored it chemistry!! Still, if you go here:

http://anabolicminds.com/

You will see my topics and product developments all over the front page, constantly. Does that mean people's gains are only imaginary? Do they just use my stuff to be "nice" to me so my feelings aren't hurt? Or, is it because I know organic medicinal and pharmaceutical chemistry better than 99.9% of the guys here, whether my education would indicate that or not on the surface? I don't know, but the fact remains that the products work and work well regardless if I am qualified to formulate them or not. Does that example help?
 

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Regarding the "evolution hoaxes":

(Piltdownman Hoax):
"One hoax cannot indicate the inferiority of conventional archeology, because creationists have several of their own, including Paluxy footprints, the Calaveras skull, Moab and Malachite Man, and others. More telling is how people deal with these hoaxes. When Piltdown was exposed, it stopped being used as evidence. The creationist hoaxes, however, can still be found cited as if they were real. Piltdown has been over and done with for decades, but the dishonesty of creationist hoaxes continues."
 

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Hey, I don't specialize! I'm a freakin physicist that only minored it chemistry!! Still, if you go here:

http://anabolicminds.com/

You will see my topics and product developments all over the front page, constantly. Does that mean people's gains are only imaginary? Do they just use my stuff to be "nice" to me so my feelings aren't hurt? Or, is it because I know organic medicinal and pharmaceutical chemistry better than 99.9% of the guys here, whether my education would indicate that or not on the surface? I don't know, but the fact remains that the products work and work well regardless if I am qualified to formulate them or not. Does that example help?
and how do you know your "formulations" work?
Because you can test them, and see results...(science)

how do you know god created everything?

No one has answered the Noah's Ark Question (it boggles my mind that people believe this)
 
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where do your beliefs come from (if not from church/religion)?
Your parents?

Apparently, God can come from nothing though...
No! My parents never took me to church. I'm glad too, I may have been turned off to God permanently like most of you are! Church people are often brainwash and crazy, I admit. I AM NOT DEFENDING "RELIGION" only showing the God is supported with science. I told you. I am a scientist. It was part of my studies. I was actually studying alien phenomena about that time.
 
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Maybe you should learn to read then! I said in the first sentence or two that "religion" had nothing to do with it, and yes, I gave plenty of science. Until you can answer the scientific questions I posed, don't bother dismissing it. Creationism is not a religion, it's an explanation of the observed universe.
I read quite well thank you. This statement from your treatice refutes your assertion that, and I quote ""religion" had nothing to do with it". I quote you again, "Christ is the only god of any religion that actually died and rose again! The resurrection is the cornerstone of the Christian faith and what really separates Christianity from the rest." It appears that Christianity has everything to do with your position. I quote this additional statement as further evidence, since you felt the need to exclude a differing "creation" story: "Really, it seems like a no-brainer and there are no other satisfactory explanations that match the known facts and laws, unless you believe the Norse legend of creation which involves a hungry giant and a big cow and lots of fire and some other weird stuff like that. (lol)"

I will anticipate your response and preempt with my statement that Christianity is fine and dandy and I applaud your faith, but don't say your position has nothing to do with religion when it clearly does as evidenced by your own words quoted above. It undermines your credibility.


I stand by my assertion that "intelligent design" if you will, IS NOT A TESTABLE SCIENTIFIC THEORY. You are free to believe it or not. My discussion has nothing to do with that. It simply does not meet scientific muster. You can quote as many branches of science as you wish, but you offered ZERO data to support any scientific conclusion in your treatice. Statements such as the following quotations from your article are not evidence. In fact, they appear to me to be questions, not answers:

"How else can you explain order and design?"
"How then does life develop and thrive when the whole universe is in a state of decay?"
"Would you really gamble on odds like that?"

If you are a scientist as you claim, I am at a loss to understand how the preceeding statements would pass muster of any sort in your field of scientific endeavor.
 
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scientists- not sure how the universe was created
religious tards- god created it the maturity level is astounding.Being a biology major Id figure you would have something more appropriate to say than that.

personally, i am MUCH more comfortable with the scientific lack of explanation (so you do have a faith system)than something that is simply made up in a book. like the theory of evolution?
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no i dont have a faith based system, i have a fact based system, and a system based on objective observation. not stories or "faith" (which is just fanatic belief in that which cannot be proven).

evolution is not a theory, its mechanics are.

and it was not just "made up" in a book. that is like saying thermodynamics or organic chemistry was just made up in a book. these things are based on obversavtion. they have substance

creation was literally thought up and written on a book....and please dont give me a line about "divine inspiration".

you are supposed to have supporting facts and observations before you create a scientific theory.

you cannot just create something out of thin air, and then handpick certain abnormalities and twist science around to support it. this is what is being done wiht this museum. it is an abomination
 
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and how do you know your "formulations" work?
Because you can test them, and see results...(science)

how do you know god created everything?

No one has answered the Noah's Ark Question (it boggles my mind that people believe this)
Sir, just think outside the box for a second. It was hard for me too. It was the last place I though I would find truth. I am just asking that you reevaluate God, minus your negative preconceptions about the church. I would not come here and say all this if I honestly did not have strong reason to profess. I think the earth is quite old for example, I know about decay chains (my major was nuclear biophysics) I don't agree with a 'young' earth. I still think the Bible works though. I know you hear guys trying to stuff weird theories into their religion to make it fit, that's not AT ALL what I am trying to do. Just offering some very real facts that strongly point to the reality of creationism, thus the existence of God. That's all.
 

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No! My parents never took me to church. I'm glad too, I may have been turned off to God permanently like most of you are! Church people are often brainwash and crazy, I admit. I AM NOT DEFENDING "RELIGION" only showing the God is supported with science. I told you. I am a scientist. It was part of my studies. I was actually studying alien phenomena about that time.
I'm curious as to how you came into believing what you believe...

I wasn't raised religious, and never really even cared about this "stuff" until moving to the south (where you can't go anywhere without it hitting you in the face!)
 

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"Formation of the universe from nothing need not violate conservation of energy. The gravitational potential energy of a gravitational field is a negative energy. When all the gravitational potential energy is added to all the other energy in the universe, it might sum to zero (Guth 1997, 9-12,271-276; Tryon 1973)."
 

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