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bluegenes
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Message 93 of 144 (499460)
02-18-2009 6:05 PM
Reply to: Message 84 by John 10:10
02-18-2009 2:51 PM


Show creation in the lab, please!
John 10:10 writes:
bluegenes writes:
Do you need to be shown in a lab that volcanoes can form islands? Do you need to be shown in a lab that meteors have collided with the moon? Do you think it is impossible to discover the past from observations made in the present?
No I don't!!! But I do have to be shown in a lab that a single cell life form can evolve to a fully grown man before I would believe in this theory and call it fact that has been proven to a high degree of accuracy.
John, it is only Creationism that would expect a man to be produced before your eyes by anything other than the normal reproductive process, so you can ask your own side to demonstrate that in a lab, as it would disprove evolution, which involves slow, incremental changes. Make a woman instantaneously from a man's rib and find a fossilized snake with vocal chords, and then you're welcome to equal time in the science classes.
We can show you patterns of historical damage on your genome that match up with the other great apes in ways that can only be explained by their occurrence in a common ancestral species. So, you can know for a fact that you descend from other animals, and that Jewish mythology is false.
This evidence is the same as the craters on the moon, and the observations of volcanic activity forming new land. What we see in the present reveals the past.

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John 10:10
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Message 94 of 144 (499482)
02-18-2009 8:02 PM
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02-18-2009 2:54 PM


Then why do you think that CAN happen, yet evolution can't? The evidence is the same, if not better for evolution.
I simply say that before you believe that the ToE is the true answer as to how life evolved from a single cell life form to our present day man, I would like to see it proven to a high degree of accuracy in a lab from start to finish. Until then, it's just an unproven theory, and will always remain so.
Most other scientific facts that are known to be true have been proven to be true to a high degree of accuracy in a lab.

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John 10:10
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Message 95 of 144 (499486)
02-18-2009 8:23 PM
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02-18-2009 2:57 PM


Re: Do you read what was posted?
A scientific theory is an explanation for observed, verified facts. It is not a hypothesis, that is something else all together.
Correct. And when you prove in a lab how the facts came to be as they are to a high degree of accuracy, then the theory becomes a scientific law that can be used over and over again by engineers and doctors and scientists in all manner of useful endeavors for the betterment of mankind.
When doctors are interested in learning how to cure a disease, they figure out what is the cause of that disease, and either figure out how to keep that disease from happening, or cure that disease after it has happened. They prove their theories to a high degree of accuracy in a lab until a cure is found. This is how true science works.
So instead of proving the ToE actually works in a lab evolving from a single cell to a man, you rely on many many many theories how it possibly works. This may be true science to you, but not to me or to most other scientists who know what the scientific method is and how you use it to prove theories.

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John 10:10
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Message 96 of 144 (499491)
02-18-2009 8:43 PM
Reply to: Message 90 by CosmicChimp
02-18-2009 3:15 PM


Could you clarify exactly what sort of evidence you would be satisfied with? Go into detail about what it is you're asking for.
When you can show in a lab numerous times that a single cell life form can grow into a man, than you will have proven that the ToE actually works. Until then, the ToE is just and will always remain an unproven theory.
Creationists will never get the chance at equal time in public schools in USA due to the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
The First Amendment says nothing whatsoever about what can or should be taught in public schools by the states. It simply says this:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
From an amendment that simply stated that "Congress" could not establish a religion that all states would abide by, this has been interpreted to say our state schools have no freedom of speech to express any belief in Creator God.
How far we have fallen from what our founding fathers really meant when they framed the Constitution!

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John 10:10
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Message 97 of 144 (499492)
02-18-2009 8:52 PM
Reply to: Message 91 by Coyote
02-18-2009 4:02 PM


Re: Affirmative action needed
You are asking for affirmative action for your religious beliefs to be considered as science when they meet none of the requirements of science.
I am simply asking that the ToE meet the requirements of how every other scientific theory is shown to be true, thereby becoming scientific law.
Believing in divine creation in no way hinders me or others from relying on the scientific method to prove all manner of theories of what makes life and matter work. But until you can pull a man out of a test tube that started from a single cell life form, don't tell me that the ToE is true science.

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Theodoric
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Message 98 of 144 (499493)
02-18-2009 8:52 PM
Reply to: Message 95 by John 10:10
02-18-2009 8:23 PM


Re: Do you read what was posted?
So you think Science can only happen in labs? Like mad scientists?
And when you prove in a lab how the facts came to be as they are to a high degree of accuracy, then the theory becomes a scientific law
Again your ignorance is showing. A Theory cannot be upgraded to a Law. They are different things. I explained earlier, but I guess I will repeat it.
The biggest difference between a law and a theory is that a theory is much more complex and dynamic. A law describes a single action, whereas a theory explains an entire group of related phenomena.
Here is a link for you to read.
Scientific Theory, Law, and Hypothesis Explained | Wilstar.com
Again, I will repeat Scientfic Theories do not get upgraded to Scientfic Laws. They are different things.
So instead of proving the ToE actually works in a lab evolving from a single cell to a man, you rely on many many many theories how it possibly works. This may be true science to you, but not to me or to most other scientists who know what the scientific method is and how you use it to prove theories.
You prove time and time again that you have no idea what the scientific method is. I venture anyone that agrees with your idea of the scientific method is not a scientist. Maybe you would like to supply us with these scientists that agree with you on your "definition" of the scientific method.
Also, please supply a source for this definition.

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Dr Adequate
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Message 99 of 144 (499494)
02-18-2009 8:53 PM
Reply to: Message 96 by John 10:10
02-18-2009 8:43 PM


When you can show in a lab numerous times that a single cell life form can grow into a man, than you will have proven that the ToE actually works. Until then, the ToE is just and will always remain an unproven theory.
When you can show in a lab numerous times that a gas giant can acquire rings, then you will have proven that Saturn actually has rings. Until then, the theory that Saturn has rings is just and will remain an unproven theory.

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Theodoric
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Message 100 of 144 (499495)
02-18-2009 8:58 PM
Reply to: Message 96 by John 10:10
02-18-2009 8:43 PM


It is called the establishement clause
The courts have upheld that the clause establishes the separation of church and state.
You can have any opinion on it that you want, but the courts do not agree with you.
Maybe we need another thread for this.

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Message 101 of 144 (499496)
02-18-2009 8:59 PM
Reply to: Message 97 by John 10:10
02-18-2009 8:52 PM


Laws and Theories
I am simply asking that the ToE meet the requirements of how every other scientific theory is shown to be true, thereby becoming scientific law.
Theories do not become laws. Theories are bigger, better and more encompassing than laws.
Newton's devised some laws of gravity. They are still useful. He didn not, however, have much of a theory of gravity at all. And what he did have was wrong. His laws were a bit imperfect too.
Einstein devised a more thorough and more powerful theory of gravity. It produces the equations which are equivalent to Newton's laws but are better. The theory is above the "laws" -- a word not used so much now.
The theory of evolution is as well establish as Einsteins ToG and, by the way, more likely to stand up in the long term since there are reasons to believe there are some flaws in the ToG.
Any "laws" derived from the ToE are a lessor thing.
The ToE doesn't need your requested observation. It has millions of reasonable ones supporting it.
Your request and your ideas about theories and laws are just more demonstrations of how terribly little you understand. And, given your approach how terrifically little you will ever understand.

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John 10:10
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Message 102 of 144 (499497)
02-18-2009 9:02 PM
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02-18-2009 5:42 PM


Re: John, if you've got some spare time on your hands...
No problem. Just come to my lab and I'll show you. Oh, I should mention that it takes a while, so maybe you could check your diary first. If you can squeeze in two or three billion years somewhere, I think we can work something out.
Precisely the point. Since you can't prove the ToE works in a lab in a reasonable amount of time, then the ToE can't be proven to a high degree of accuracy as most other scientific laws are proven.
Seriously, Parasomnium, you should know better than to propose this. If you don't bother to recognize that the time span needed to prove the ToE disqualifies it from ever becoming a scientific law, why should I bother talking to you?

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dwise1
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Message 103 of 144 (499498)
02-18-2009 9:03 PM
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02-18-2009 8:43 PM


From an amendment that simply stated that "Congress" could not establish a religion that all states would abide by, this has been interpreted to say our state schools have no freedom of speech to express any belief in Creator God.
As private citizens, state school officials still have every right to express their own personal beliefs, but not as agents of the state acting on behalf of the state.
How far we have fallen from what our founding fathers really meant when they framed the Constitution!
Uh, you're a bit off there. That was not included in the framing of the Constitution. Rather, it was added later, as The First Amendment. If it had been included in the framing of the Constitution, then it would be an amendment. Right?
When James Madison, who wrote the Bill of Rights (including the First Amendment), had formulated the idea of the Wall of Separation a few years earlier -- his wording was "The Great Barrier that defends the rights of the People" -- , it was in direct response to a proposed law to grant public tax money to support the teaching of religion. So you see, the original intent (that term that was so popular with the Radical Religious Right in the 1980's) was clearly to prevent direct government support of religion. Which is what teaching religious beliefs in the public schools would be.
Oh how far ye hath fallen from what our founding fathers really meant!

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John 10:10
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Message 104 of 144 (499499)
02-18-2009 9:16 PM
Reply to: Message 93 by bluegenes
02-18-2009 6:05 PM


Re: Show creation in the lab, please!
John, it is only Creationism that would expect a man to be produced before your eyes by anything other than the normal reproductive process, so you can ask your own side to demonstrate that in a lab, as it would disprove evolution, which involves slow, incremental changes. Make a woman instantaneously from a man's rib and find a fossilized snake with vocal chords, and then you're welcome to equal time in the science classes.
It is only the ToE that can believe that man can evolve from a single cell life form without any divine intervention, and it is blind faith in the ToE that believes that it actually happened. I have no problem with your belief in the ToE as the explanation for how man came to be. I only have a problem in your faith belief that it actually happened and the ToE is the true reason for for how man came to be.
If you want to believe that you descended from other animals, that is your choice to believe in that theory. But don't tell me that I or anyone else can know for a "fact" that we descended from other animals. That is the most preposterous statement I've ever heard any evolutionist make.

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Theodoric
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Message 105 of 144 (499501)
02-18-2009 9:24 PM
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02-18-2009 9:02 PM


Re: John, if you've got some spare time on your hands...
More than millions of year have passed to prove it. As a matter of fact billions of years of evolution have happened to prove it. You demand evolution to be something it is not. Your mind is so closed you wont even entertain looking at the evidence.
"Don't confuse me with the facts, my mind is made up"

Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts.

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John 10:10
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Message 106 of 144 (499502)
02-18-2009 9:35 PM
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02-18-2009 8:52 PM


Re: Do you read what was posted?
According to this definition, theories can be upgraded to laws.
If evidence supports a hypothesis, it is upgraded to a theory. If the theory then garners even more support, it may be upgraded to a law. This misconception may be reinforced by introductory science courses that treat hypotheses as "things we're not sure about yet" and that only explore established and accepted theories. In fact, hypotheses, theories, and laws are rather like apples, oranges, and kumquats: one cannot grow into another, no matter how much fertilizer and water are offered. Hypotheses, theories, and laws are all scientific explanations that differ in breadth not in level of support. Hypotheses are explanations that are limited in scope, applying to fairly narrow range of phenomena. The term law is sometimes used to refer to an idea about how observable phenomena are related but the term is also used in other ways within science. Theories are deep explanations that apply to a broad range of phenomena and that may integrate many hypotheses and laws.
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The main point I'm making is that the ToE can never be upgraded to a law because it can never be shown to be true within man's lifetime. Most other scientific laws can be shown to be true within man's lifetime.

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Theodoric
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Message 107 of 144 (499505)
02-18-2009 9:41 PM
Reply to: Message 106 by John 10:10
02-18-2009 9:35 PM


WOW
I want you to read what you quoted.
If evidence supports a hypothesis, it is upgraded to a theory. If the theory then garners even more support, it may be upgraded to a law. This misconception may be reinforced by introductory science courses that treat hypotheses as "things we're not sure about yet" and that only explore established and accepted theories.
Read it. It says that the idea that a hypothesis becomes a theory and then a theory becomes a law, is a MISCONCEPTION.
You have to be able to read critically, not just make it read what you want it to say.
Now here is the kicker. Read this sentence
In fact, hypotheses, theories, and laws are rather like apples, oranges, and kumquats: one cannot grow into another, no matter how much fertilizer and water are offered.
Got it now?

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