Except for the times that A isn't actually A. You just assume it's A.
Which is all based on an assumption you can't prove. You can't prove that natural law has been consistent throughout the course of time.
You really didn't pay attention what I wrote and where is A not A. Can you give even one example?
And this is because you can't prove those values have been consistent through time. Matter of fact, because of entropy we know they are not. Now how much does entropy affect something like a hydrogen atom? We don't know the answer to that either. It's an assumption that the make up of a hydrogen atom has had the same "shape", "structure" and "interactive capacity" from the beginning of time.
The paragraph above is a response to an aside I offered to another poster about very fundamental things, but you want to talk about entropy and hydrogen atoms, so I guess you're going to get a physics lesson. I hope it will take...
Entropy is a property of ensembles of things, not individual particles or atoms. A hydrogen atom doesn't have an entropy any more that it has a temperature. (Individual atoms don't have temperatures for the record.) We very much do known the properties hydrogen atoms. They are literally the easiest physical quantum system to calculate. (Just two particles, one proton, one electron) Because of that we know how the properties of hydrogen atoms are dependent on the base physical constants (like the electric charge). The properties can also easily calculated in terms of *different* values of the physical constants so are knowable if the constants were different in the past.
Again, another assumption. Would the magnesium lines in a quasar have been the same 10,000 years ago? I would venture to hypothesis "probably not" because of entropy.
Again entropy doesn't affect the properties of atoms, hydrogen, magnesium or otherwise.
As for 10,000 years ago. HAHAHAHAHA. The nearest quasar (Markarian 231) is 581 *million* light years away, so we see it as it was 581 million years ago. No quasar has been observed that is less than a half billion years older than now.
And while the magnesium atom is harder to calculate than the hydrogen atom, the two lines in question are resonance lines of the first ionized state of magnesium (Mg II) and that ionic state can be treated as a single electron and the nucleus screened by the inner neon-like core of the other 11 electrons.
As someone who doesn't believe in God; I'm sure you would agree this cosmos is not eternal.
No, I would not. The Universe is 13.7 billion years old, but the Cosmos is probably eternal.
To say the cosmic material in this universe is "unchanging" would be to give it properties of Divinity. And you certainly don't want to do that - now; do you?
Divinity is meaningless to me as a property or otherwise. I don't really care about how you want to toss that word about.
The "gotcha" is actually a (would we call it rhetorical argument?) which you ended up agreeing with me (using your own definitions) that your assessment of a given set of data is based on a belief system about that data.
I told you I won't play presuppositionalist games with you.
I never said I or anyone else could understand or explain everything. We are not omniscient (yet another theological concept). You stated your own "absolution on truth" (which "what is truth" isn't a measurable question either; at least it's not in the context of an atheistic world view which has no standard whereby to measure truth from!)
Atheism isn't a worldview and I don't derive "truth" from it, nor would I care to.
So just like moral relativism.
All morality is relative, or at least subjective.
Your interpretation of the data collected is no more valid than mine!
Based on what expertise or experience with the data do you claim equivalent validity?
But that's a whole other aspect of this debate that you seem to be missing.
O jee, what could that be?
The presupposition that everything can be naturally explained is also an assumption.
Yes, I said that. So what.
Again, here's where Romans 1 applies perfectly to you.
Only if you think gods are real. I don't. And I certainly am not "suppressing" any "knowledge of god". If I knew about a god, I wouldn't not believe in any. I would certainly think it was there. (Obeying, worshipping, or even liking such a being is a completely different question, from accepting it exists. I see no reason to think any god is real based on the utter lack of evidence of any god.)
You put yourself in the position of God assuming there's no framework that natural explanation can't answer. (I.E. Another example of "scientist" nixing data to support his own theory!) Mathematical probability doesn't support the idea that this cosmos is randomly created. And if it's not randomly created; your only other possible "hypothesis" is Intelligent design.
I never said the cosmos was randomly created. (In fact I think it was uncreated and always existed.) I'm not sure how the Universe arose from the Cosmos, but that's a different question.
Hardly.
A mountain of evidence that you can't explain how it got here though!
It was measured, or is this a "then where did the Universe come from" thing? if the latter I don't know, but so what. We already established we don't know everything.