• Starting today August 7th, 2024, in order to post in the Married Couples, Courting Couples, or Singles forums, you will not be allowed to post if you have your Marital status designated as private. Announcements will be made in the respective forums as well but please note that if yours is currently listed as Private, you will need to submit a ticket in the Support Area to have yours changed.

Evolution

  • Belive in evolution

  • Don't belive in evolution


Results are only viewable after voting.

LifeToTheFullest!

Well-Known Member
May 12, 2004
5,069
155
✟6,295.00
Faith
Agnostic
Um ... did Shem know about the Jews?

The Chinese didn't exist when Canaan sired his children, who later became the Chinese.

You're putting the rickshaw before the runner.
Do you have any way to support this claim, other than your unique interpretation of the Bible?
 
Upvote 0

lucaspa

Legend
Oct 22, 2002
14,569
416
New York
✟39,809.00
Gender
Male
Faith
Methodist
Marital Status
Private
"Some" miracles?

Yes. Didn't you read the criteria I gave for the "some"? For events in the past that leave evidence we can study today, then science can study those events. This applies to all one-time events. We can reject a global flood because it would have left evidence to today. But how about Hannibal supposedly bringing elephants over the Alps? No one has repeated the feat. So, did it happen or not? What you do is choose to believe the people who report it happened. Similarly, people choose to believe the people who report that the Resurrection happened. Science is non-committal about each.

If you dont care for the word 'reject' then how about 'ignore", or, "do not in any way take into account" unfalsifiable / unverifiable claims or the paranormal.

I told you the word to use: anomalus data.

I am not using theory to reject data. Theory gives reason to doubt the validity of some data...that is when it is nice to be able to confirm observations.

It doesn't even do that. Data is used to evaluate theory. Theory is not used to evaluate data. If you are going to reject data, you must use some independent criteria to do so. If you want to reject the account of Hannibal and the elephants over the Alps, you must use (hypothetical) independent data from physiology that would say that the elephants could not endure the air pressure at that altitude. As I said, that independent data is hypothetical, but it gives you the idea of what "independent" is.

Using theory to reject data is for the theists.

LOL! If only that were so. As you have demonstrated, it's also for atheists.


No, I do not agree with "worthless". I said "anomaly". That doesn't make it worthless; it simply means the data is not intersubjective. As such, science cannot say whether it is, or is not, valid. Since we cannot say the data is valid, we are allowed to view it as anomalous.

You are reading into my data what your "theory" says should be there. Once again, using theory to reject data is not unique to theists. Thank you for so conclusively demonstrating that.

It doesnt qualify as an "anomaly"; you may think it happened, I dont.

Now you are twisting "anomaly" out of its meaning. "2 : deviation from the common rule 3. something anomalous : something different, abnormal, peculiar, or not easily classified" That's exactly what the Resurrection is. And that was, of course, the case with the first hot air balloon. It was an anomaly; a deviation from the common rule.

I cant prove it didnt happen; you cant prove there is no chupacabre anomaly.

What is a "chupacabre anomaly"?

i reject the "data" from inclusion in any theory.

And that you cannot do. You are back to rejecting data because of theory.

Really? They don't teach cell theory as true? They don't teach round earth as true? How about the theory that DNA is in a double helix? What do you teach them as?
Dunno your point here other than a exercise in rhetoric or maybe a put down of some sort.

Very simple. You claimed that your school never taught any theory as "true". All those are theories. I'm trying to find out if your school never taught these theories as true. By your evasive answer, I infer that the answer is "no", that your school taught all those theories as true.

I think evolution should be taught as true. It has survived as much testing as those other theories, and has earned the position that it be taught as (provisionally) true.

OTOH, evolution cannot be taught as atheism.

Im not going to go thru explaining why a scientific theory cannot be proven.

I can do that if you want. Yes, strictly speaking, no scientific theory can be proven. The only proven statements in science are the negative ones; the disproved theories.

However, that does not stop us from teaching scientific theories as true. Or viewing them as true. For example, we all view Bernoulli's theory as true. After all, we all get on airplanes. We don't worry about "a scientific theory cannot be proven".

So, I'm having you draw a distinction from "strictly speaking" to "proven beyond a reasonable doubt".
 
Upvote 0

lucaspa

Legend
Oct 22, 2002
14,569
416
New York
✟39,809.00
Gender
Male
Faith
Methodist
Marital Status
Private
The Chinese didn't exist when Canaan sired his children, who later became the Chinese.

You're putting the rickshaw before the runner.

Let's follow your logic. The Chinese are descended from the children of Canaan who was the grandson of Noah. But, since Canaan was the grandson of Noah and knew about the Flood, he would have told his children, and they tell their children, etc. So the Chinese should have a Flood legend. They would have gotten it from Noah by way of Canaan.

But you acknowledge that the Chinese do not have a flood legend. That destroys both your lineage and the flood in one fell swoop.
 
Upvote 0

lucaspa

Legend
Oct 22, 2002
14,569
416
New York
✟39,809.00
Gender
Male
Faith
Methodist
Marital Status
Private
We don't know what effects a global flood would have.

We can hypothesize many possible effects and then go looking for those effects. That's what geologists did up until 1831 when they concluded that there were no effects of a global flood.

Or the global atmospheric conditions when it took place.

That's not entirely true. Atmospheric conditions in the past leave evidence we can study today. For instance, small pockets of air are trapped in forming ice of glaciers and in the Arctic and Antarctic. Ice cores retrieve that atmosphere.

Another example are the growth rates of tree rings. The amount of rainfall, sunlight, temperature, oxygen, carbon dioxide, etc. all affect growth. So we can infer atmospheric conditions thru time by looking at the growth rings of trees. Dendrochonology has a timeline from the bristecone pine going back almost 20,000 years.

People do guess both the time and the conditions.
Having done that, then then insist it never took place according
to conditions that they made up.

This is called "hypothesizing" and then testing for consequences.

However, there are consequences of any flood. A layer of dead vegetation all over the world as the plants are drowned. All animals mixed up in the same layer of sediment as all the animals living at the time drowned. Mud deposited in a single layer. A mud layer, BTW, was how a Tigris-Euphrates flood was deduced. Any world wide flood is going to disrupt the annual pattern of deposition in ice cores, as well as partially or wholly melt the ice. As long as liquid and solid water are what they are, this is going to happen. And there is nothing in a flood that is going to change the basic chemistry and physics of water.

Basically, SkyWriting, you are making up ad hoc hypotheses to save the flood from falsification. You are trying to get to a point -- no one knows the conditions -- to where the flood is unfalsifiable.
 
Upvote 0

lucaspa

Legend
Oct 22, 2002
14,569
416
New York
✟39,809.00
Gender
Male
Faith
Methodist
Marital Status
Private
But the Egyptians, the Babylonians and the Chinese failed to notice they were flooded.

The Babylonians do have a flood story. It was this story that the Hebrews plagiarized and converted to their own theological purposes. See the Epic of Gilgamesh.

And yes, the Babylonian story pre-dates the Biblical one. Remember, Genesis is one of the "books of Moses" and, by conservative Christians, was written by Moses.

Note that AV never even tried to deal with the lack of a flood tradition in Egypt. Right next door.
 
Upvote 0

Hespera

Junior Member
Dec 16, 2008
7,237
201
usa
✟8,860.00
Faith
Buddhist
Marital Status
Private


i know about proof beyond a reasonable doubt. That is where ToE is. What is your point here?
 
Last edited:
Upvote 0

Greatcloud

Senior Member
May 3, 2007
2,814
271
Oregon coast
✟55,500.00
Country
United States
Gender
Male
Faith
Charismatic
Marital Status
Single
Politics
US-Republican
There are only 4 races red yellow black and white. Genitics were pure back then "small inbred family". Also the chinese had a name for a monotheistic God, but they no longer use it it got lost in one of their dynastys,and seperated from the common man. Also st. Thomas went to India 2,000 years ago. There still exists a church there founded by him. So I am a Young Earth Creationist.
 
Upvote 0

LifeToTheFullest!

Well-Known Member
May 12, 2004
5,069
155
✟6,295.00
Faith
Agnostic
This post, by far, is one of the best I have ever read.
 
Upvote 0

sandwiches

Mas sabe el diablo por viejo que por diablo.
Jun 16, 2009
6,104
124
46
Dallas, Texas
✟29,530.00
Faith
Atheist
Marital Status
Single

I am not trying to be rude, but is this serious?
 
Upvote 0

Hespera

Junior Member
Dec 16, 2008
7,237
201
usa
✟8,860.00
Faith
Buddhist
Marital Status
Private


who'd have guessed
 
Upvote 0

SithDoughnut

The Agnostic, Ignostic, Apatheistic Atheist
Jan 2, 2010
9,118
306
The Death Starbucks
✟33,474.00
Faith
Atheist
Marital Status
Private

This post has made my time here at CF worthwhile. I think you missed a smiley though.
 
Upvote 0