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The Creationistic Method and Why It Is Fraudulent

leibowde84

Veteran Member
Half-life assumptions. No one has seen an atom decay for millions of years.
That isn't necessary though. They know that carbon 14 isotopes decay at a consistent rate. Throughout the time they have been measuring this decay rate, the rate has remained the same. In addition, they know why carbon 14 isotopes decay, they know why they decay at a steady rate, and they know why the rate is what it is. Why is that insufficient in your opinion?

Do you have any evidence or reason to believe that the decay rate would have been different at any time throughout history? If not, why do you consider it a significant possibility?
And you don't know what state the atoms in the samples were created or when, either, yet you are assuming you do.
I'm not sure what you mean here. Can you explain?
 

DavidFirth

Well-Known Member
That isn't necessary though. They know that carbon 14 isotopes decay at a consistent rate. Throughout the time they have been measuring this decay rate, the rate has remained the same. In addition, they know why carbon 14 isotopes decay, they know why they decay at a steady rate, and they know why the rate is what it is. Why is that insufficient in your opinion?

Do you have any evidence or reason to believe that the decay rate would have been different at any time throughout history? If not, why do you consider it a significant possibility?
I'm not sure what you mean here. Can you explain?

You are assuming that nothing can possibly or has possibly affected the decay rates. That is insufficient for me accept it as fact. I can see it as theory but not fact.

You are assuming that God did not create the universe, say 10,000 years ago, with the atoms all in a similar state of decay rate to what you find them today. Also, God would not have created a lightless universe. He could have created the light beams in place so that it wouldn't have taken millions of years for them to get here.

Assuming that God did not do any of this is what you are doing.
 

Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Why would poking holes in evolution somehow create support for creationism? Why wouldn't it?

Do I assume that it's one or the other? No, I don't assume anything, I know what happened. The angels assembled DNA on the planet and placed it inside a protein shell. The first three attempts failed to evolve but the fourth succeeded.

The bible is certainly not entirely wrong? So, what parts are correct and what parts are incorrect then? Let me guess, the parts that you don't like have to be incorrect, right?

Any claim has to be supported by outside evidence? The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers exist. Nebuchadnezzar existed. Jews exist. Jerusalem exists. Egypt exists. Pharoah's existed. Israel was conquered by the Romans is accepted history. You're saying all of these things are not outside evidence?

I can't use the bible to show that something in the bible is true? And you can't prove the bible is wrong either.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence? Once again you atheists have made this claim, please provide the evidence that proves this claim. Nothing violates the laws of nature/physics. Beings may have abilities that you can barely comprehend but nothing violates the laws of physics.

You're trying to prove that the bible can't be true because God can't be tested. You can't prove that. Why did you think you could? You can't use your incorrect definition of logic and your atheist invented rules of how to argue to disprove God to the rest of us.

We do not have any evidence that supernatural events are possible? The science books are full of supernatural events. Einstein's math showed that black holes were possible but he said that he didn't think that nature really formed them. String theory is full of supernatural events. What is "supernatural" to you today will be accepted common belief tomorrow.

You ask that people not use logical fallacies to argue? And who decides what is a logical fallacy and what isn't, the atheists?
The narratives describe within the Bible clearly isn't true.

What is true about the composite Bible is that it's a very old and ancient collection of books with some real world locations and figures mentioned in its pages.
 

Super Universe

Defender of God
The narratives describe within the Bible clearly isn't true.

What is true about the composite Bible is that it's a very old and ancient collection of books with some real world locations and figures mentioned in its pages.

The narratives described in the bible clearly are not true? Do you have some evidence or is this just something you made up?

The bible is a very old collection of books with some real worl locations and figures? Have you ever been to Jerusalem? If not, why would you believe it's a real place then?
 

Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
The narratives described in the bible clearly are not true? Do you have some evidence or is this just something you made up?

The bible is a very old collection of books with some real worl locations and figures? Have you ever been to Jerusalem? If not, why would you believe it's a real place then?
Oh yeah the evidence is quite clear.

Get any Christian today Pastor or whomever, and have them do what the disciples and christ-followers did as described in the Bible touting within its narrative what it is that they can do, see it done today, and you might just have a valid argument.

Bottom line is, if it ain't happening now, it simply wasn't true then.
 

A Vestigial Mote

Well-Known Member
So species that do not change are somehow not an issue for a theory that species change over time?
No, it isn't. The most stable of configurations - configurations of physical attributes that make the resulting organisms capable of surviving in peak condition "as is" over time, or are best adapted for conditions that may vary over time would not need to change. What is so hard to understand about that? Seriously... what is the problem?

They are simply nature's version of "If it ain't broke, don't fix it"? What was broke with the dinosaurs then?
I think I remember there being quite a bit of evidence for a mass extinction event. The dinosaurs died off because... well... they had very little choice in the matter. Besides, any globally applicable change is going to see all sorts of organisms in a mad scramble for attempted survival and adaptation, and there are bound to be casualties. What do you think the absence of such matters would "prove?" God? Creation? Hardly...
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Super Universe

Defender of God
No, it isn't. The most stable of configurations - configurations of physical attributes that make the resulting organisms capable of surviving in peak condition "as is" over time, or are best adapted for conditions that may vary over time would not need to change. What is so hard to understand about that? Seriously... what is the problem?


I think I remember there being quite a bit of evidence for a mass extinction event. The dinosaurs died off because... well... they had very little choice in the matter. Besides, any globally applicable change is going to see all sorts of organisms in a mad scramble for attempted survival and adaptation, and there are bound to be casualties. What do you think the absence of such matters would "prove?" God? Creation? Hardly...
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What is the problem with the idea that some species change and others do not change? Because you don't know the mechanism, that's the problem.

Please provide evidence that dinosaurs and every other extinct species was not in "peak condition".

You don't have any because scientists don't know why any species went extinct. Maybe it was an asteroid? Maybe it was disease? The scientists don't know and you're trying to come up with an answer instead of just admitting, "We don't know how that happens".

A mass extinction event caused the dinosaurs to go extinct? That's called change, evolutionary change does not happen slowly, it happens quickly, suddenly, and you have no idea why.

Any sort of global change is going to see all sorts of organisms scramble for adaptation? That's not what the theory of evolution says. Species do not adapt to the environment, they don't get cold and then suddenly grow fur. They can't adapt to the environment because there is no way to inform their DNA of the new nucleotide sequence they need to grow fur.
 

QuestioningMind

Well-Known Member
Evolution contradicts evolution. Stromatolite hasn't changed in 3.8 billion years. Crododiles haven't changed in 200 million. Trilobites are unchanged for hundreds of millions of years. There's a few more that are very old and unchanged. It seems there's a problem with your theory.

Anything not supported by outside evidence should not be taken seriously? What if there is only one source of evidence for something?

So uniformitarianism is correct? Sort of. Once set the laws of physics do not change in this universe but there are beings who can cause forces to increase or decrease which may seem to others to change the laws when they actually don't. And, the laws of this universe do not apply to other universes.

Do I have any evidence to support my claim that the angels planted life? Sure I do, nothing you would accept because you won't accept anything that disputes your ideas. We all know how smart you are. Please explain everything to us. Inquiring minds want to know it all.

I need to demonstrate the existence of angels before invoking them in any way? Who told you that? When did you make up this rule and why would you think I would have to follow your made up rules? Please provide all of your topic rules 30 days ahead of time for review and approval, otherwise, they're not a rule, they're just something you just attempted to make up.

The bible is really a fable? I will look at your proof for this claim? Uh, do you have any?

The bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls are basically the same thing? Okay. Where is your proof that evidence that contradicts evolution would not create support for creationism? You don't have any. It's just an idea you proposed that is untested.

It is not incumbent upon anyone to prove a negative? Sure it is. If I told you that your house was on fire you would hurry over to find out. If I called 911 and said I was being held hostage the police would come over right away even if I was lying. You atheists always try to invent all these ridiculous debating rules.

I must support my claim that Moses did exist? What if no one could provide any evidence that Moses ever existed and he really did exist? Your system of logic fails.

You have to prove the positive? Attempt to prove to me that the Eiffel Tower exists.

I am not able to poke holes in the theory of evolution? Uhh, see the first sentence.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence? Prove it.

If you told me that there was a diamond the size of a refrigerator in front of your house I am unlikely to come over with a jack hammer? That's probably correct. I don't have a jack hammer. Or maybe I just would know that you are a total bs'er.

People can believe whatever sort of tomfoolery they want to believe? They can. I think one time some guy tried to say that the earth was not the center of the solar system and he was tried and convicted and sentenced to be burned at the stake, luckily the Pope changed it to house arrest for life.

The problem starts when someone tries to confuse belief with reality? You mean like when scientists did not accept the idea of the Higg's-Boson for years and years?

How is the 6,000 year old earth idea any different than the existence of Noah or Moses? Because the bible doesn't say the earth is 6,000 years old, some priest came up with that idea.

You're using a clear and precise form of logic to demonstrate that creationism makes all sorts of foolish, unsupportable and contradictory claims? Oh, clear and precise logic, right. You do realize that the word logic does not mean truth, right? And science makes some pretty wild claims too and some of the physics does not fit with other physics.


Wow, what a jumble of incomprehensible nonsense.
 

Looncall

Well-Known Member
What is the problem with the idea that some species change and others do not change? Because you don't know the mechanism, that's the problem.

Please provide evidence that dinosaurs and every other extinct species was not in "peak condition".

You don't have any because scientists don't know why any species went extinct. Maybe it was an asteroid? Maybe it was disease? The scientists don't know and you're trying to come up with an answer instead of just admitting, "We don't know how that happens".

A mass extinction event caused the dinosaurs to go extinct? That's called change, evolutionary change does not happen slowly, it happens quickly, suddenly, and you have no idea why.

Any sort of global change is going to see all sorts of organisms scramble for adaptation? That's not what the theory of evolution says. Species do not adapt to the environment, they don't get cold and then suddenly grow fur. They can't adapt to the environment because there is no way to inform their DNA of the new nucleotide sequence they need to grow fur.

You seem to be ignorant of one of the central notions of evolution, variation.

If a necessary variation happens to occur after a change in the environment, those individuals with that variation continue their lineage.

If no such variation happens to occur, the species goes extinct, as so very many have done.
 

Super Universe

Defender of God
You seem to be ignorant of one of the central notions of evolution, variation.

If a necessary variation happens to occur after a change in the environment, those individuals with that variation continue their lineage.

If no such variation happens to occur, the species goes extinct, as so very many have done.

I'm ignorant of one of the central notions of evolution which is variation? The theory is not variation in the number of species it's variation WITHIN a species. You don't know the theory of evolution. You've invented some incorrect assumptions.

If necessary variation happens to occur after a change in the environment? No species changes because the environment changes. There is no way for DNA to know that the planet is experiencing an ice age. The theory is that random genetic change puts out many variations within a species and the ones in that species that have thicker fur will do better in an ice age and thus transmit more of their thicker fur genes to the species. The cause is not the environment, it's random genetic change that just happens to give some animals thin fur and others thicker fur, and others no fur at all. The animals with thicker fur do better in an ice age, the ones with thin fur do better in warming trends.

If no such variation happens to occur the species goes extinct? You're making things up that are not the theory of evolution. Random genetic change happens in every species. It's not something that happens in some and doesn't happen in others. It's caused by radiation and DNA copying mistakes.

Also, no species became extinct because they did not have enough variation. We don't know why any species went extinct other than human involved species extinction.
 

A Vestigial Mote

Well-Known Member
Any sort of global change is going to see all sorts of organisms scramble for adaptation? That's not what the theory of evolution says. Species do not adapt to the environment, they don't get cold and then suddenly grow fur. They can't adapt to the environment because there is no way to inform their DNA of the new nucleotide sequence they need to grow fur.

Ugh. Of course they don't suddenly "grow fur." The creatures who are already most adapted to survival in the cold, e.g. are more "cold-blooded" or have some amount of fur that varies from individual to individual, will survive, be the only specimens to live on and therefore reproduce, and there is all likelihood that at least some of their offspring will inherit the same survival-supporting traits their parent(s) has/have. Then the most suited of those offspring are the ones to survive and pass on their beneficial traits and so on - eventually leading to a creature that has been "selected" by natural, environmental pressures to have a long, warmth-providing coat - the DNA having been selectively augmented over time by the breeding of successfully surviving specimens. It does not "happen quickly, suddenly" as you stated. Just as you tried to tell me: "That's not what the theory of evolution says".

The fact that you even thought that I expected creatures to adapt by "growing fur" within their own lifetime is, quite honestly, laughable. I feel it shows a bit of your own naivete surrounding the subject - makes it sound like you think we're having a kindergarten version of discussion about evolution, and that your sophomoric comments are actually going to get you anywhere. I don't want it to sound like I think I am some expert on evolutionary matters and study, but what you're saying just doesn't match up with what I do know.
 

leibowde84

Veteran Member
It isn't evolution or creationism? You have made a claim, do you have any evidence for this claim?

Even if evolution were wrong it wouldn't make creationism right? And even if creationism were wrong it doesn't make evolution right.
You just provided the evidence. If creationism were proven false, it wouldn't provide any evidence for evolution. And, if evolution is proven false, it wouldn't provide any evidence for creationism. It isn't multiple choice. There could very well be an explanation that we haven't uncovered yet.
The actual explanation could be something we have not come up with yet? It really couldn't. You don't get humanity from a series of accidents, the accidents get you disease.
Are you saying that genetic mutations always cause disease? Can you provide evidence to back that claim up? Obviously some mutations can cause harm, but every mutation? I've never heard that one before.
Can I provide the evidence that angels assembled DNA on the planet? I could but why would you accept it?
I will accept any evidence that can be verified. In other words, there are claims and there is evidence to support those claims. You could say "I saw the angels do it" or "God told me", but those would be mere claims. Evidence would be necessary to verify those claims. And, it doesn't matter who looks over the evidence to verify the claims. The evidence should speak for itself.
The only parts of the bible that we can use as evidence are claims that can be independantly verified? Indepedantly verified, by who? Who would be this independant person? An atheist?
Again, by "independently verified" I mean confirmed with evidence outside of the Bible. Cities, the existence of pharos, rivers, etc. wouldn't confirm stories or supernatural claims in the Bible. You would need evidence that the events actually took place.
No one decides which parts of the bible are true? Everyone decides for themselves. If you don't even attempt to read it and learn for yourself then you have decided to before hand.
I've read the Bible many times. I grew up as in a mixed faith household. My Dad is Jewish and my Mom is Catholic. I went to Catholic grade school and hebrew school on the weekend. I chose to be baptised and confirmed in 8th grade and went to an all boys jesuit high school. I was also a philosophy major in undergrad. Needless to say, the Bible was a major part of all of my schooling, and I've read it recently as well.
We can't know which parts of the bible are true without outside evidence? If the Jews are not outside evidence and Jerusalem is not outside evidence and Egypt and Pharoah's and history is not outside evidence then what would be outside evidence? You've dismissed all the outside evidence as not being outside evidence.
Outside evidence that the claims made in the Bible are true. The existence of the Jews does not evidence that the stories in the Bible are true. The existence of Pharos doesn't evidence the story of Exodus. I don't think there is a way to evidence most of the stories in the Bible. Thus, they must be taken on faith. Nothing wrong with that, but they can't be used as evidence for anything, as there isn't any way to tell whether they are fact or fiction.
Supernatural claims should be verified with evidence? What if the universe is designed for you not to know? Do you tell a small child that there are humans who exist who like to steal and rape and murder them? What if a small child asks where babies come from, do you tell them the truth? You think you're mature enough to handle the truth. You're not, you're not even close.
If there isn't any evidence to support a specific supernatural event, why would I believe it happened?
How did an author near Jerusalem 3,000 years ago know the story of Adam and Eve?
How do you know he didn't just make it up as a fictional story?
Please provide your evidence that circular logic can't be true? Do you ever use the internet to research something? How do you know it's correct?
This is nonsensical. Circular logic isn't true or false. It is a fraudulent argumentation method. Any expert in the field of logic would say the same. You can't assume your conclusion in your premise.

For example, if you say that one story in the bible is true because another story in the bible confirms it, your reasoning is fraudulent. You are assuming your conclusion (that the bible is accurate) in your premise. In order to use a biblical claim as evidence you must provide evidence that confirms it is true. Other claims from the bible that may or may not be true wouldn't count, as they aren't evidence of anything.
It's logically fallacious to claim that the bible is correct just because the bible says so? I will look at your evidence for this claim, do you have any or is this just another atheist claim without evidence?
That is the clearest example of circular reasoning I've ever seen. If you start with the assumption in your premise that the Bible is true and use that assumption to argue that the Bible is true, you are using circular reasoning. You aren't actually making an argument, you are merely making another claim.
The claims in the bible need to be independantly verified? Once again, who is this indepedant person? And how do we go back in time and witness the events as they happened? You're trying to make an argument that only allows your ideas. That's not how the world works. You don't get to refuse all evidence and pick and choose only the evidence that supports your atheist opinion.
There is no person. It is independently verified by outside evidence that confirms the biblical claim in question. Now, I understand that it is seemingly impossible to find evidence that confirms the claims/stories in the Bible. You can find evidence that the author was aware of certain goings on like territory leaders, landmarks, rivers, roads, buildings, and events. But, these things do not evidence the actual stories. For example, with the story of Exodus, you could show that the Pharaoh's name was accurate, the names of rivers and landmarks were accurate, etc. But none of this proves that Moses existed or that the plagues actually happened. That would require some kind of Egyptian record of the plagues or the exodus itself, which is what I mean by outside sources. Until evidence like that is found, we cannot be sure that the exodus story is not fiction, or at least somewhat fiction.
Black holes are not supernatural? I will look at your evidence for this claim. Do you have any?
They are not supernatural because they adhere to the laws of physics and quantum mechanics, to the best of our knowledge. Sure, we don't understand much about them, but the lack of understanding in no way evidences anything supernatural. That would be an argument from ignorance.
Can I provide an example of a supernatural event in a science book? Fire. Primitive humans were once afraid of fire. Rivers flowing south, the ancient Egyptians were amazed to see the Jordan river flowing southward. Eclipses, meteors, comets, earthquakes, storms, disease, the dual split experiment, String Theory... Things that are supernatural today become accepted science tomorrow, you just think you are much farther advanced than you really are.
Fire is not supernatural, as it does not violate scientific natural laws. The fear that primitive people had or their lack of understanding does not have any relevance here. Rivers flowing south do not violate any scientific laws or principles. Some claims in the Bible are supernatural, though. All of the things you mention are natural, as in they exist in this universe. If God exists, otoh, God would not be limited by the natural laws that govern this universe. That is why his claimed actions are supernatural.
Logical fallacies are common errors in reasoning? Where was the error in the scientists unacceptance of the Higgs-Boson?
I'm not sure what you are getting at here. What does this have to do with the subject at hand?
 

SkepticThinker

Veteran Member
You would have to tell me why you're confused in light of what the Bible says.

People's morals change, God's morals never change. This is what bothers people today. Society accepts many things that God does not accept.
I'm confused about your claims and your positions, as you are expressing them here. I don't know why you think the Bible "all fits together and is perfect in its morals," unless you think things like stoning unruly children or keeping slaves are moral actions.

God doesn't explicity forbid, ban or condemn slavery anywhere in the Bible, as he does with so many other things like eating shellfish or wearing clothing of mixed fabrics, or adultery or murder. Not only does god not forbid slavery, he outlines the rules for keeping slaves. You'll have to explain what about any of that indicates to you that God condemns slavery and/or why you think slavery is moral.
 

SkepticThinker

Veteran Member
You are assuming that nothing can possibly or has possibly affected the decay rates. That is insufficient for me accept it as fact. I can see it as theory but not fact.

You are assuming that God did not create the universe, say 10,000 years ago, with the atoms all in a similar state of decay rate to what you find them today. Also, God would not have created a lightless universe. He could have created the light beams in place so that it wouldn't have taken millions of years for them to get here.

Assuming that God did not do any of this is what you are doing.
What reasons do we have to assume or believe that god(s) did do any of it? I mean, what you're effectively saying here is that we should ignore every observation we have about our current world we live in and assume it was totally different in the past because we have to make some god fit into the equation. And not only that, you are claiming that you know what this God would or would have not done when he supposedly created the universe. All without being able to demonstrate the existence of this god to anyone in the first place. On what basis are you making those claims?
 

DavidFirth

Well-Known Member
What reasons do we have to assume or believe that god(s) did do any of it? I mean, what you're effectively saying here is that we should ignore every observation we have about our current world we live in and assume it was totally different in the past because we have to make some god fit into the equation. And not only that, you are claiming that you know what this God would or would have not done when he supposedly created the universe. All without being able to demonstrate the existence of this god to anyone in the first place. On what basis are you making those claims?

I make no claim, I merely state that your acceptance of your theories as fact is incorrect. I certainly do not accept them as fact.
 
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