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Hypothetical: Creationism becomes standard in science classes

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bhsmte

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Have you heard of the experiments testing prayer in the effects of healing? I have heard unreplicated evidence of healing time shortened by two-thirds and pain as reported by victims reduced by 1/2. That's one way. There are also old experiments testing whether plants that are prayed over grow better than others. I have heard several resutls th

And yet there are salt water lakes on the tops of mountains. ANd that mammoth with tropical grass in its stomach found in Siberia.

Please present the evidence in regards to prayer and healing.
 
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Sure. But instead of giving you something that is beyond many in this thread, I will give you the following argument from Charles Fort: After spending many years searching newspapers, he was unable to find a single report of stars crossing in front of each other as seen by astronomers. The distance to stars and speed of light does not matter. If the earth is going around the sun, and get 186 million miles from whether it was 6 months ago, and if stars are at various distances from the earth, stars must be seen to cross, it is a question of geometric parallax arguments (Try walking from one side of the front of a room to the other, and keep your eye on two chairs at different lengths from you). His conclusion was that stars are not "hanging" in space at various distances, they must be painted on some kind of canopy and thus all the same distance from earth. So if you can find a case of stars appearing to cross that will settle my doubt. (I just tried a google, and could not find anything). If you cannot, this constitutes presumptive evidence that the whole measurement of star distance differences is in error, and consequently, anything derived from it (including the speed of light in space) is wrong.

Have you never heard of eclipsing binaries?
 
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Not the time to put your head in the sand. You just don't understand science, or God ^_^
Says a guy who posted a video of a guy with a bible degree speaking as an expert in a dozen scientific fields.

BTW, are you aware of the fact that the word "gullible" is not in the dictionary? True story.




^_^
 
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How many people in the world are permitted to publish a paper in a refereed scientific journal?

Anyone can submit papers for publication. Wheter or not it well be published will be entirely based on the quality and merrit of the paper, not on who's name is written on top of it.

For hat matter, hi ow many journals are there, multiply by how many articles each has printed in the last 20 years. I bet it's less than 60 million (1% of the population of earth.)

So, science is biased/untrustworthy because not every human on earth is publishing papers?
Really?
 
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My claim is that people allowed to submit research to the journals approved by scientists is less than 1%. I got you several reputable counts (by scientists) all under 1%. What do you want?

Once more...
People don't need approval to get published.
Papers need approval to get published.

Anyone can submit a paper for publication.
If it passes peer review (the process where the quality and merrit of the paper is reviewed, in order to pro-filter nonsense from ending up in scientific journals), it will get published. No matter who the author is.
 
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