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My Creation Science Challenge

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Ow my....
Amazing to see that people still say such things.

Well, you are talking about someone who thinks that, "open your eyes and look around you" is original research.
 
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Good thing that science is not a pursuit of "truth".

Peer review has lost it's punch, lost it's validity, lost it's integrity.

You can keep repeating a falsehood, but it won't make it the truth*.

*See what I did there.
 
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You actually think it is an assumption. It isn't. We can observe the universe expanding. It is a scientific conclusion backed by evidence, not an assumption.

You have GOT to be kidding me, of course it's assumption.

See how ridiculous you people are. I can observe things being created every day, an absolute fact, then from that conclude it was all created but be wrong in your minds, while you make an observation, a pretty damned wild one at that, yet it is becomes a fact, not assumption. And the double standard is the least of your problems with that one.

The universe puts off dust too, but that doesn't equate to dust creating the universe, so not only is that not evidence it's a ridiculous, even laughable assumption.

I'm stunned at how gullible seemingly intelligent people can be. Dogma said he never stated there was no God or something like that, so I should not accuse him of it, but gotta' say, you people have to have some type of serious agenda to fall for this stuff.

Talk about a complete lack of reasoning, your posts are perfect examples. You don't even understand what an assumption is.

My lack of reasoning? Oh please, after all you've claimed recently? Still dwelling on the definition of assumption I see? Your desperation is showing, but I'd be desperate too if I were in your shoes, so I get the fact you have to grab hold of what you think is usable in order to dig your way out. However, the fact I get it, doesn't make it any less sad.
 
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Well, you are talking about someone who thinks that, "open your eyes and look around you" is original research.

Well you all seem to keep your eyes closed and completely miss the simple observations, or try to cover it up with long winded lies, so I thought it bared mentioning.

And I guess you conveniently missed the part where I said my answer was what it was, all depending on what the OP meant by original research.

While you berate others, I have to wonder if you can do better. What do you have for us, what is your own original research?
 
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You have GOT to be kidding me, of course it's ( an expanding universe) assumption.
Seriously? It was first observed by Hubble in the 1920s. It's measurable. Are you saying the universe is stagnant, not expanding?
 
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Seriously? It was first observed by Hubble in the 1920s. It's measurable. Are you saying the universe is stagnant, not expanding?

Not at all, I'm saying it's assumption that because it's expanding now doesn't equate to it all started with expansion as was claimed.

Read my comment about "dust". The claim is a convenient, ridiculous, out of the blue assumption.
 
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Not at all, I'm saying it's assumption that because it's expanding now doesn't equate to it all started with expansion as was claimed.
In other words you deny the big bang. I guess the entire astronomical community are just a bunch of blithering idiots then.
 
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I guess the entire astronomical community are just a bunch of blithering idiots then.
Mainly lost souls in search of the Truth.

FYI, the Bible says the universe is expanding.
 
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You have GOT to be kidding me, of course it's assumption.
. . . ..

So what other suggestion do you have to account for the present expansion of the universe? And what would make any other suggestion MORE than an assumption?
 
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You actually think it is an assumption.

EVERYTHING IS ASSUMOTIONS!

It's as if the word conclusion or prediction simply does not exist.

It's ASSUMOTIONS all the way down.
 
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.......this person actually thinks assuming something expanded somewhere as a beginning to it all rates as a scientific theory. I stick with my guns on my definition of theory and it's usage here.

Your guns, are pointed at your own feet then.
 
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The universe is factually, demonstrably, verifiably, observably expanding.
Psalm 104:2 Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:

Confirmed (not discovered ... confirmed) by the Hubble telescope.
 
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Psalm 104:2 Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:

Confirmed (not discovered ... confirmed) by the Hubble telescope.

The expanding universe looks nothing like a "curtain", not even in a far reaching analogy.
 
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The expanding universe looks nothing like a "curtain", not even in a far reaching analogy.
Thats probably because the word EXPAND is confusing you.

The Bible says "stretchest."

There's a big difference.
 
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But there is so much nonsense out there that would utterly clog the journals if it were simply printed whenever submitted. Somebody, somewhere, has to weed out the clear nonsense, there's no choice, there is so much of it.
I agree, however, a bunch of people backing a myth is no way to do science. Science chases the truth. It does not try to support a preconceived theory and reject anything that doesn't fit the predetermined idea.
 
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I agree, however, a bunch of people backing a myth is no way to do science. Science chases the truth. It does not try to support a preconceived theory and reject anything that doesn't fit the predetermined idea.

This leads me to believe that you have a very warped idea about how peer review really works.

In general, it's not so much that actual idea presented in the paper that is being evaluated, as it is the methods and data used and the quality of the science.

A peer reviewer doesn't really ask the question "what is the conclusion of this paper?"... rather, (s)he'll ask questions like how was the conclusion obtained? How is it supported? How were the experiments set up? Can this be repeated / verified?

It's, primarily, the science that's being evaluated. Not the conclusion per say...

It seems like are of the opinion that "peer review" is all about "i agree" or "i don't agree" with the conclusions.
Not so much. It's actually, at least equally, about "is this proper form / good science?".
 
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Not at all, I'm saying it's assumption that because it's expanding now doesn't equate to it all started with expansion as was claimed.

So it was static, or even contracting, and then decided to start expanding for no good reason. You wouldn't like to come up with a physical mechanism for that, would you?
 
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Oh look, a load of assertions with zero evidence from somebody who has never worked in science. Gosh.

If science works as you describe, how are things discovered? How are new things invented? Why is it that, for example, scientists are incredibly excited by what the LHC is discovering with the most exciting outcome being that the standard model of particle physics should be rewritten? Scientists are recognised for breakthroughs, new discoveries and changing existing theories. Nobody in science wants to keep everything at the status quo, that goes against the whole point of science.
 
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