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    Mister Neutron

    Schrodinger's wife says to him one morning at breakfast: "Erwin, what have you been doing to that cat? He looks half dead!"
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    when did my brew go cold?

    <snark> Your brew did not grow cold on its own. That would require a decrease in entropy which, according to the 2nd Law of Creationist Thermodynamics cannot happen anywhere, at any time unless it was deliberately orchestrated by an intelligent force. So the real question is: Who made your...
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    The Swimming Pool and the Big Bang

    Correct. Except in normal gaseous form, it's H2.
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    The Swimming Pool and the Big Bang

    The "Or" is crucial. Pure hydrogen OR pure oxygen. The two mixed together within certain bounds of concentration yields an explosive mixture. Look up the Mythbusters episode where they try to create a methane explosion in a port-a-potty. They repeatedly failed to achieve ignition because the...
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    The Swimming Pool and the Big Bang

    AV, which theory predicts that? Does it involve psychedelic drugs?
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    10 Reasons Why Evolution Is A Lie:Science Cannot Create Life

    Nonsense. I've said it many times and I'll say it again: Even if the first life forms were literally miracled into existence by whatever god you choose, it would not reduce the validity of evolution as an explanation of the diversity of life on earth. To have a full understanding of life's...
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    Creationism VS Public schools

    Is this worthy of meaningful discussion? "Do you consider an animal the size of a dog with five distinct digits on each foot to be a 'fully formed horse'?"
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    Creationism VS Public schools

    Do you know of any "fully formed horses" with 5 toes, each with its own little "hoof"?
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    Creationism VS Public schools

    Hooray, another digression. How was creationism of use in any of these persons' scientific accomplishments? Another unfounded claim. How is evolution any more a religious philosophy than the Atomic Theory or Newtonian Mechanics? Unlike religion, the theory of evolution has changed to...
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    Creationism VS Public schools

    I think Moonlancer has hit the nail on the head. Your "points" have been answered, but you find reasons to ignore the answers by complaining about irrelevant things. In fact you haven't really presented any kind of argument for your position since post #161. Therefore these digressions are...
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    Creationism VS Public schools

    Have you not been listening? No one knows exactly how the first living cell came to be. However, that has nothing to do with the validity of evolution. Well, no. Probably because your unanswered questions have nothing to do with the validity of evolution. Yes. The evidence is quite...
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    Creationism VS Public schools

    Does poliovirus count? Yes, researchers have assembled synthetic poliovirus from mail-order nucleotide sequences. Also, I might point out that religious explanations of origins dominated human thought for thousands of years prior to the advent of modern biology and in all that time have...
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    Creationism VS Public schools

    How about for the reason that these "judicial restrictions" exist in the first place: namely that it is morally wrong and harmful to society to force people to support a religion with their tax dollars that is not their own? Our science books are full of theories: Newton's Theory of Gravity...
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    Creationism VS Public schools

    I thought I was quite explicit on that point. A code is an abstract representation of a thing. The symbols are arbitrary. DNA does not represent anything. It is the thing. Genes do not represent proteins, they are physical objects used in the manufacture of proteins. As I said, most are...
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    Creationism VS Public schools

    Living systems abide by the 2nd law as well. How exactly the first ones came to be is one of the great unanswered questions of science and the subject of the discipline known as abiogenesis. However, it remains that the 2nd law of thermodynamics does not in any sense preclude the advent of...
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    Creationism VS Public schools

    The 2nd law does not prohibit the existence of self-organizing systems. Not by any means- in fact self-organizing systems are everywhere around us. One very obvious one is the simple water crystal. Highly disorganized vapour or liquid water condenses into highly organized fixed patterns...
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    Creationism VS Public schools

    Here's one: there does not exist any cyclic process whose only effects are the removal of heat from a single reservoir and the production of positive work. The second law applies to all systems, no just isolated ones. However, it is only in isolated systems that entropy can never decrease...
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    The Centrality of Scripture in Traditional Christianity

    Rest assured, it is both. I have read large portions of the Bible and found it to be myth. I am, however, perfectly willing to have its divinity demonstrated to me. Your explanation, however, is nothing more than a dogmatic assertion. You could just as easily believe Moby Dick is divinely...
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    The Centrality of Scripture in Traditional Christianity

    So how do you know your way is correct? Do all such proficient persons agree on how the Bible ought to be interpreted? How do you verify that even one small measure of what you glean from scriptures is true? Great! Now demonstrate it. If scripture and your interpretation thereof is...
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    The Centrality of Scripture in Traditional Christianity

    No, the idea that miracles are useless for convincing people of the truth of religious claims is an insult to anyone's intelligence.