My Change Challenge

[Chriliman]

@Circumcised_Heart
It takes a little while to weigh up the implications of evolution biblically...

• That the creation story in Genesis may have been written as a simplistic summary/parable of the process so that many cultures throughout history could make some sense of it.
• That God can still be honoured as Creator.
• To decide between the different evolutionary options within christianity such as theistic evolution, orthogenesis, homogenises, emergent evolution, creative evolution, etc.
• To find answers to questions within the bible that at first reading seem in conflict with evolution.

I have found the website biologos.org a really helpful resource for both learning to understand how evolution works and also how science need not be in conflict with the bible.

That biologos.org is a great site, thanks for sharing

 

[Kylie]

3. You've changed 2 letters as well as the meaning.

The meaning changes as part of the two letters changes. Is it really a different change? After all, it's not possible to make the letter changes WITHOUT the meaning change...

 

[Kylie]

They're still numbers though.

Did you even see the point as you missed it?

 

[Kylie]

It depends on whether you are counting a word change as a change (1), a letter change as a change (2), or a pixel change as a change (lots).

The only reason the change made sense was that "set" has a predefined definition. In your analogy, the software that interprets the sentence would have to understand what the new word meant, and that couldn't happen unless it underwent a simultaneous, similar change. A better analogy would be "Toby made his *e#. Then he went outside.", which demonstrates the Creationist point that information is lost when mutations occur.

But when the sentence was changed, it gained NEW meaning. So overall, there was no net loss or gain of information.

 

[Kylie]

But we have lungs ... fish don't.

They have gills.

So?

 

[AV1611VET]

Did you even see the point as you missed it?

What?

 

[Kylie]

What?

You missed the point that was being made.

 

[Chriliman]

The meaning changes as part of the two letters changes. Is it really a different change? After all, it's not possible to make the letter changes WITHOUT the meaning change...

Depends if the meaning change is being comprehended or not. Someone who doesn't know English would only see 2 changes, no meaning change.

 

[Ophiolite]

Depends if the meaning change is being comprehended or not. Someone who doesn't know English would only see 2 changes, no meaning change.

However, back in the real world, we have decoded the language of DNA, so that is not a problem.

 

[Kylie]

Depends if the meaning change is being comprehended or not. Someone who doesn't know English would only see 2 changes, no meaning change.

Like I said, the change in meaning isn't really there as its own thing, it simply comes about as a result of the two letter changes.