Applying Ocam's Razor To BB vs Biblical ID Creationism and EvC

Sure, that's one way to put it. The classic formulation is "do not unnecessarily multiply entities." No, it's not, and a finite universe is simpler than an infinite one (less entities; infinitely less entities, in fact.) So Occam's Razor suggests that we should posit a finite universe. Since "God" is, in Laplace's famous formulation, unneeded as a hypothesis, Occam's Razor suggests that we do not posit the existence of a God, Biblical or otherwise. Occam's Razor suggests atheism. Crystals - a highly ordered form of matter - are trivially observed to spontaneously form from liquid solutions. Liquids are highly disordered. Order can be observed to arise from disorder every winter, or in the formation of rock candy as a simple syrup cools on the counter. These happen regardless of the presence of any intelligence. Occam's razor therefore suggests that order arises naturally from disorder under specific conditions. Strictly speaking, the pure iron, being crystalline and therefore brittle, is highly ordered. Smiths make tools by alloying iron with impurities (carbon, vanadium, other rare earth metals) and inducing it, by cycles of heating and cooling, to become highly disordered and random in structure. The more a steel is disordered on a molecular level, the stronger it is.Tool steel doesn't naturally reform into ore, so that should indicate to you the direction of increasing entropy. Smiths shape tools by inducing iron to adopt a more entropic configuration - to become highly disordered.

Space can easily be finite without being bounded. The surface of a sphere is an example of a structure finite in area, but without any borders at all. Space might very well be the same. Indeed, a cursory examination of the night sky should serve to prove that the universe must be finite in time and space; looking into an infinite universe at any point in the sky, your vision would terminate in a star no matter where you looked. Since the night sky is not a uniform sea of bright starlight, but a lightless void punctuated by the occasional star, we know that the universe is finite in time and space.

I assumed you had the imagination and intelligence to apply the notion to a 3D space, but I see I was mistaken. The mathematics is equally applicable; a volume can be finite but unbounded just as an area can, since volume is just the integration of area over distance.Calculus makes a lot of things possible. I eschewed math early in my college career, but recently forced myself to complete it. It was surprisingly rewarding and I continue to reap the benefits.

Then you've committed the fallacy of the looming caveat; crystals are incredibly common, most elements and compounds can be induced to adopt a crystalline structure under quite prosaic conditions, and usually they do so because the enthalpy change of the system under those conditions as it crystalizes exceeds the entropy loss.That happens all over the place, Buz, and it's not just something you can sweepingly dismiss with a "by and large." It's a direct and omnipresent counterexample that you can't just pretend is nonexistent.

Is this even meant to be English?

Well, that's untrue. There are crystals that form incredibly quickly, some that form incredibly slowly, and much in between. Below New Mexico is the world's slowest-growing crystal, which has grown at a rate of 40 microns per century for several million years.As we're trying to tell you, crystals aren't something you can sweepingly brush aside and claim that order doesn't form from chaos. Order forms from chaos all the time, and we understand the phenomenon so well that we know exactly under what circumstances that will occur - when the system, in doing so, can undergo a favorable change in enthalpy that offsets the unfavorable decrease in entropy. Life is, fundamentally, a crystalline phenomenon; it's also a phenomenon where a favorable change in chemical free energy frequently offsets an unfavorable decrease in entropy. It's a simple principle. It would, I guess, but the Book of Genesis is the only place where human bodies formed from dirt. In the real world, they form from other human bodies.