By Bruce D. McKay, Elijah
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The point is, some scients get hooked on "bad" or insoluble puzzles, by accident - and I believe the evolutionists have been all led into this same type of camp, deliberately!
Peiper - I believe you have not intended to act in a cowardly way, by not responding and inviting those interested persons who read these posts to ignore what is being said. Even when I was in college, I worked hard on my assignments, tried my best to make good grades, I was never incredibly arrogant or openly disrespectful to any of my professors; nor was I ever thrown out of any classes from the time I started until when I graduated.
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What everyone seems to be missing - tbere are three different levels that enrich our understanding of this world. The first is, observational language, and it focuses on the exposed, currently accessible or "factual" layers of nature. You should note, when I point to a current ocean floor map(!) showing Greenland has stood up on end and moved 300 miles - then that's where I have stationed myself. I am speaking from a level of "observatinal languages." The second, speculative language, focuses on the hidden speculative or the subjective layers of nature. For example, drawing in data from that book from the Apocrypha, The Wisdom of Solomon, and citing that data in terms of it's being a historic record, is clearly at a level of "observatinal languages." But, to say that because the water burst into flames when tossed on a fire, that means that there was a slight change that weakened the hydrogen and oxygen bonds in the water moclues, and that is what allowed the rapid burning or increased flames of the water - that is indeed "speculative." The idea that the waters of the same area became more stickey, and the optical nature changed from normal to the color of blood, or red, because of the same molecular changes, is also "speculative." I mean, just because the Bible and all the other ancient literature of the Jews relate that "the water's all turned to blood," I was not acutally there! So my conveying my idea that the water's were changed due to a change in the bonding of the molecules, is "speculative." Likewise, for me to say that the atoms flattened out, and this allowed them to stack to form two walls of water - and that the waters stacked higher and higher, not unlike a pile after pile of hundreds and even thousands of glass microscope slides all stuck together - this too, on my part, is "speculative."
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What the argument is here, however... is that the scientists, geologists, evolutionists, etc. who have addressed the posts in this forum, are all very well trained in the third detail, which is the "formal language(s)," of scientific inquiry. Much of their lives have been spent on learning how to focus on the logical, mathematical structues or models that scientists use to build formal frameworks, or symbol systems, or other designs of reason used to help link together their observations and speculations, and those are the things that do help them to perdict new observations. A famous example of a formal framework or symbol system is Einstein's speculation that E = MC squared, and these notes are valid and as true as they can be, in that they are all loosely taken from Sandra W. Pike's book, The Science Game, 5th ed., 1991, pg 32.
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So what's actually going on here is all those who oppose what I have been saying are deeply intrenched in their highly impressive, "formal language" skill(s). "You haven't measured a thing!" they charge. "You've only looked at a picture and on the basis of that, you say this and this and this," they complain. Or they may even relate, "You just keep saying the same thing over and over!"
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All that is obviously true! My point is, however, if they will just LET GO of all the "formal language" requirements they are so firmly entrenched in, and then just take a brief walk back, to where I am coming from at the top of paragraph three, then they will find what I have stated is put so very simply - in that it markedly reduces the region of uncertainity in which all their antecedents and their linkages reside! And what is being introduced is not any "formal language" statement, it is more simply, the wide-eyed introduction of a whole new paradigim of nature!
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So, most of what I post is strictly an observational language finding - like when I say that it appears evident to me that NEW MATTER coming up from the mantle in great quantities is evidently able to change the entire strata into a very soft, mud like composition. When I quote from a book, that "Lyell and modern geology acknowledge that the rock layers (around the world!) were soft and plastic in their early stages. (And) With time, and, it is said, pressure, these sediments crystallize (metamorphose) and become hard, solid rock," not spectulative, but "observational," in view of it's being found on page 105 of Ian T. Taylor's, In the Minds of Men. So when I put something like this together, and I relate "Hey! The whole geology of the fossils burried in the rocks of the earth is also explained by the emergence of new matter from the mantle! It turned many areas of the surface into mud or a form of liquid shale, all this actually focuses on the exposed, currently accessible or "factual" layers of nature. Nevertheless, it causes those at the other end of the spectum, at the "formal language" side of things, to all freek out! And the more that a given individual has been trained or brought up in the "formal language" side of things, the more exasperated and the more astounded they actually become!
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It isn't that They Are All Wrong! It isn't that I am 100% Right! What is it? In their eyes, I have nothing in terms of any real "formal language" going on! What they see then, if I include a few lines from some ancient book, or something like a quote by Albert Einstine, such as, "When the solution is simple, God is answering." Alber Einstein (1879-1955), they view this additional "factual" detail mere handwaving. This is the same thing as saying, "you have no scientific basis for what you are saying! Therefore - we are going to hit the reject button!"
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Nevertheless, if what I am saying is of a nature... so that it readily reduces the region of uncertainity in which rests the antecedents and the linkages where the "formal language" camp has laid their greatest claim, THEN IT TRULY CALLS FOR THEM TO REMOUNT THEIR INITIAL FINDINGS OF "OBSERVATIONAL LANGUAGE" AND WHATEVER "SPECTULATIVE" DESIGNS THAT NOW INJURED CONCEPT MIGHT ACTUALLY HOLD!
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In other words, if I point out to you that Lyell, a lawer by profession and he had "no training in mechanics or the strength of materials," and he called in an "engineer." Then "the very fundamental fact was pointed out to him that crystalline materials such as rokc or concrete have great compressive strength by virtually no strength in tension." Then he was told, for every layer of rock in compression, there must be an equal and opposite layer of rock in tension... and an anticline the bent outside layers of the rock were in tension but are forced to be generally UNFRACTURED and in many places NOT EVEN CRACKED. Note: these details are from Taylor, Ian T, In the Minds of Men, 2nd ed., 1951, pg 105. (So far all this is "factual language.") Then these entire strata, fossils and all, were at one time rapidly deposited in a consistancy of wet cement or wetter - due to the release of new matter from within the mantle. ("Speculative") And as the new water molecules from the mantle rapidly move out, most probably being driven by heat into returning to regular water molecules, as we know of them today, that is when many, or all of these various sedementar layers all over the world, very rapidly, harden and metamorphosed into hard solid rock! ("Seculative.") But Lyell required long, long periods of time - based on his (wrong) a prior asssumption that the natural laws as operating today have not changed. ("Observational!")
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Now. Instead of jumping up on your "formal logic" platforms, why don't you fellows just calm down and perhaps give a little thought to the idea of just going ahead and kicking down the doors of that spiritual city of Babylon in which you've been held captive for so long. Rather than sit there and stew and complain, and try to get me thrown off - maybe you could just as well say "this guy may be right! Maybe we should try to put some of our 'formal languages' into effect - and in the process, just go ahead and blow the whole theory of evolution into a million pieces! Just so you know, and this is merely "observational" on my part, in the 18th chapter of Revelation it tells of the great city of Babylon having fallen, "for her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquites."(Rev 18:5) In that regard the scriptures also direct this message to you - "Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works; in the cup which she hath filled, fill to her double." It's "pay back time!"
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In closing, I would add one of my nicknames given to me has been Papa Hemingway, and I have only tried to do just as Ernest Hemingway once wrote. He said, "My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in my heart and in the simplest way." And remember, if you can't stand the noise or the organ grinder's tune, it isn't any reason to attack the monkey! And, never, never, never insult an aligator - until you've gotten across to the other shore!
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Elijah
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The point is, some scients get hooked on "bad" or insoluble puzzles, by accident - and I believe the evolutionists have been all led into this same type of camp, deliberately!
"Driven by persistent curiosity, scientists, via systematic observation and repeated examination of a puzzle, scientists aim to reduce the region of uncertainity in which all antecedents and their linkages reside. Otherwise, we settle for temporary or unreliable solutions that arise from causal first and second looks and the simple cause-effect logic of common-sense explanations - fuzzy antecedents fuzzily linked to each oterh and to fuzzy consquences." (Pike, Sandra W., The Science Game, 5th ed., 1991, pg 17.)
.Peiper - I believe you have not intended to act in a cowardly way, by not responding and inviting those interested persons who read these posts to ignore what is being said. Even when I was in college, I worked hard on my assignments, tried my best to make good grades, I was never incredibly arrogant or openly disrespectful to any of my professors; nor was I ever thrown out of any classes from the time I started until when I graduated.
.
What everyone seems to be missing - tbere are three different levels that enrich our understanding of this world. The first is, observational language, and it focuses on the exposed, currently accessible or "factual" layers of nature. You should note, when I point to a current ocean floor map(!) showing Greenland has stood up on end and moved 300 miles - then that's where I have stationed myself. I am speaking from a level of "observatinal languages." The second, speculative language, focuses on the hidden speculative or the subjective layers of nature. For example, drawing in data from that book from the Apocrypha, The Wisdom of Solomon, and citing that data in terms of it's being a historic record, is clearly at a level of "observatinal languages." But, to say that because the water burst into flames when tossed on a fire, that means that there was a slight change that weakened the hydrogen and oxygen bonds in the water moclues, and that is what allowed the rapid burning or increased flames of the water - that is indeed "speculative." The idea that the waters of the same area became more stickey, and the optical nature changed from normal to the color of blood, or red, because of the same molecular changes, is also "speculative." I mean, just because the Bible and all the other ancient literature of the Jews relate that "the water's all turned to blood," I was not acutally there! So my conveying my idea that the water's were changed due to a change in the bonding of the molecules, is "speculative." Likewise, for me to say that the atoms flattened out, and this allowed them to stack to form two walls of water - and that the waters stacked higher and higher, not unlike a pile after pile of hundreds and even thousands of glass microscope slides all stuck together - this too, on my part, is "speculative."
.
What the argument is here, however... is that the scientists, geologists, evolutionists, etc. who have addressed the posts in this forum, are all very well trained in the third detail, which is the "formal language(s)," of scientific inquiry. Much of their lives have been spent on learning how to focus on the logical, mathematical structues or models that scientists use to build formal frameworks, or symbol systems, or other designs of reason used to help link together their observations and speculations, and those are the things that do help them to perdict new observations. A famous example of a formal framework or symbol system is Einstein's speculation that E = MC squared, and these notes are valid and as true as they can be, in that they are all loosely taken from Sandra W. Pike's book, The Science Game, 5th ed., 1991, pg 32.
.
So what's actually going on here is all those who oppose what I have been saying are deeply intrenched in their highly impressive, "formal language" skill(s). "You haven't measured a thing!" they charge. "You've only looked at a picture and on the basis of that, you say this and this and this," they complain. Or they may even relate, "You just keep saying the same thing over and over!"
.
All that is obviously true! My point is, however, if they will just LET GO of all the "formal language" requirements they are so firmly entrenched in, and then just take a brief walk back, to where I am coming from at the top of paragraph three, then they will find what I have stated is put so very simply - in that it markedly reduces the region of uncertainity in which all their antecedents and their linkages reside! And what is being introduced is not any "formal language" statement, it is more simply, the wide-eyed introduction of a whole new paradigim of nature!
.
So, most of what I post is strictly an observational language finding - like when I say that it appears evident to me that NEW MATTER coming up from the mantle in great quantities is evidently able to change the entire strata into a very soft, mud like composition. When I quote from a book, that "Lyell and modern geology acknowledge that the rock layers (around the world!) were soft and plastic in their early stages. (And) With time, and, it is said, pressure, these sediments crystallize (metamorphose) and become hard, solid rock," not spectulative, but "observational," in view of it's being found on page 105 of Ian T. Taylor's, In the Minds of Men. So when I put something like this together, and I relate "Hey! The whole geology of the fossils burried in the rocks of the earth is also explained by the emergence of new matter from the mantle! It turned many areas of the surface into mud or a form of liquid shale, all this actually focuses on the exposed, currently accessible or "factual" layers of nature. Nevertheless, it causes those at the other end of the spectum, at the "formal language" side of things, to all freek out! And the more that a given individual has been trained or brought up in the "formal language" side of things, the more exasperated and the more astounded they actually become!
.
It isn't that They Are All Wrong! It isn't that I am 100% Right! What is it? In their eyes, I have nothing in terms of any real "formal language" going on! What they see then, if I include a few lines from some ancient book, or something like a quote by Albert Einstine, such as, "When the solution is simple, God is answering." Alber Einstein (1879-1955), they view this additional "factual" detail mere handwaving. This is the same thing as saying, "you have no scientific basis for what you are saying! Therefore - we are going to hit the reject button!"
.
Nevertheless, if what I am saying is of a nature... so that it readily reduces the region of uncertainity in which rests the antecedents and the linkages where the "formal language" camp has laid their greatest claim, THEN IT TRULY CALLS FOR THEM TO REMOUNT THEIR INITIAL FINDINGS OF "OBSERVATIONAL LANGUAGE" AND WHATEVER "SPECTULATIVE" DESIGNS THAT NOW INJURED CONCEPT MIGHT ACTUALLY HOLD!
.
In other words, if I point out to you that Lyell, a lawer by profession and he had "no training in mechanics or the strength of materials," and he called in an "engineer." Then "the very fundamental fact was pointed out to him that crystalline materials such as rokc or concrete have great compressive strength by virtually no strength in tension." Then he was told, for every layer of rock in compression, there must be an equal and opposite layer of rock in tension... and an anticline the bent outside layers of the rock were in tension but are forced to be generally UNFRACTURED and in many places NOT EVEN CRACKED. Note: these details are from Taylor, Ian T, In the Minds of Men, 2nd ed., 1951, pg 105. (So far all this is "factual language.") Then these entire strata, fossils and all, were at one time rapidly deposited in a consistancy of wet cement or wetter - due to the release of new matter from within the mantle. ("Speculative") And as the new water molecules from the mantle rapidly move out, most probably being driven by heat into returning to regular water molecules, as we know of them today, that is when many, or all of these various sedementar layers all over the world, very rapidly, harden and metamorphosed into hard solid rock! ("Seculative.") But Lyell required long, long periods of time - based on his (wrong) a prior asssumption that the natural laws as operating today have not changed. ("Observational!")
.
Now. Instead of jumping up on your "formal logic" platforms, why don't you fellows just calm down and perhaps give a little thought to the idea of just going ahead and kicking down the doors of that spiritual city of Babylon in which you've been held captive for so long. Rather than sit there and stew and complain, and try to get me thrown off - maybe you could just as well say "this guy may be right! Maybe we should try to put some of our 'formal languages' into effect - and in the process, just go ahead and blow the whole theory of evolution into a million pieces! Just so you know, and this is merely "observational" on my part, in the 18th chapter of Revelation it tells of the great city of Babylon having fallen, "for her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquites."(Rev 18:5) In that regard the scriptures also direct this message to you - "Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works; in the cup which she hath filled, fill to her double." It's "pay back time!"
.
In closing, I would add one of my nicknames given to me has been Papa Hemingway, and I have only tried to do just as Ernest Hemingway once wrote. He said, "My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in my heart and in the simplest way." And remember, if you can't stand the noise or the organ grinder's tune, it isn't any reason to attack the monkey! And, never, never, never insult an aligator - until you've gotten across to the other shore!
.
Elijah
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