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Title: Creationist stakes $10,000 on contest between Bible and evolution
Source: The Guardian
URL Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/201 ... -trial-bible-genesis-evolution
Published: Mar 27, 2013
Author: Amanda Holepunch
Post Date: 2013-03-27 15:33:40 by Thunderbird
Keywords: Creation, Evolution, Trial
Views: 71642
Comments: 104

A California creationist is offering a $10,000 challenge to anyone who can prove in front of a judge that science contradicts the literal interpretation of the book of Genesis.

Dr Joseph Mastropaolo, who says he has set up the contest, the Literal Genesis Trial, in the hope of improving the quality of arguments between creationists and evolutionists, has pledged to put $10,000 of his own money into an escrow account before the debate. His competitor would be expected to do the same. The winner would take the $20,000 balance.

The argument would not be made in a formal court, but under an alternative dispute resolution model known as a minitrial. Mastropaolo said he would present the argument in favor of a literal interpretation of the creation story once he had found a willing scientist to argue that a non-literal interpretation of Genesis is more scientific.

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A California creationist is offering a $10,000 challenge to anyone who can prove in front of a judge that science contradicts the literal interpretation of the book of Genesis.

Dr Joseph Mastropaolo, who says he has set up the contest, the Literal Genesis Trial, in the hope of improving the quality of arguments between creationists and evolutionists, has pledged to put $10,000 of his own money into an escrow account before the debate. His competitor would be expected to do the same. The winner would take the $20,000 balance.

The argument would not be made in a formal court, but under an alternative dispute resolution model known as a minitrial. Mastropaolo said he would present the argument in favor of a literal interpretation of the creation story once he had found a willing scientist to argue that a non-literal interpretation of Genesis is more scientific.

"They [evolutionists] are not stupid people, they are bright, but they are bright enough to know there is no scientific evidence they can give in a minitrial," Mastropaolo said.

A minitrial differs from a regular trial because it does not need to be held in a courthouse and does not require the presence of traditional court figures. Mastropaolo plans to have a bailiff and court reporter in attendance, along with the judge. Contest rules state that evidence must be scientific, which means it is "objective, valid, reliable and calibrated".

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#19. To: redleghunter, mininggold (#18)

All was perfect when God created.

And then Leftards went and ruined everything...

"Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it."

CZ82  posted on  2013-03-28   16:58:16 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#20. To: A K A Stone (#10)
(Edited)

Now explain if you can how these things prove an old earth.

The cosmic microwave background radiation...

In the 1940s, physicist George Gamow was the first to realize that, because the universe is all there is, the huge heat from a hot Big Bang could not dissipate in the same way as the heat from a regular explosion and therefore it must still be around today.

In 1948, Gamow's research students, Ralph Alpher and Robert Herman argued that because the Big Bang effectively happened everywhere simultaneously, that energy should be equally spread as cosmic microwave background radiation.

In 1965, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, of Bell Telephone Laboratories, discovered exactly that. The mysterious microwave static they picked up on their microwave antenna seemed to be coming equally from every direction in the sky, and eventually they realized that this microwave radiation (which has a temperature of about -270°C, marginally above absolute zero) must indeed be the “afterglow” of the Big Bang.

This discovery, perhaps the most important cosmological discovery since Edwin Hubble had shown that we live in an expanding universe, was powerful evidence that our universe had indeed begun in a hot, dense state and had been growing and cooling ever since.

The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) was launched in 2001 to measure the cosmic background radiation. Among other things, WMAP has determined the universe to be 13.77 billion years old to within a half percent.

The universe is 13.77 billion years old, not 6,000 years old.

This is called real science -- theory that has been proven by actual observation.


"we must as a species go into a period of shrinkage that we have not experienced since the Dark Ages and the Black Plague" -- lucysmom

jwpegler  posted on  2013-03-28   20:04:00 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#21. To: jwpegler (#20)

In the 1940s, physicist George Gamow was the first to realize that, because the universe is all there is, the huge heat from a hot Big Bang

Big bang made up no proof.

A K A Stone  posted on  2013-03-28   20:06:57 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#22. To: jwpegler (#20)

because the Big Bang effectively happened everywhere simultaneously

Bullshit. They are making this stuff up. There was no way of knowing this. How is it proven? Specifically.

A K A Stone  posted on  2013-03-28   20:07:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#23. To: jwpegler (#20)

In 1965, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, of Bell Telephone Laboratories, discovered exactly that. The mysterious microwave static they picked up on their microwave antenna seemed to be coming equally from every direction in the sky, and eventually they realized that this microwave radiation (which has a temperature of about -270°C, marginally above absolute zero) must indeed be the “afterglow” of the Big Bang.

SEEMED? Seemed isn't science.

They are making a lot of assumptions here. First of which is the fairy tale religion of the "big bang".

A K A Stone  posted on  2013-03-28   20:09:21 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#24. To: jwpegler (#20)

The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) was launched in 2001 to measure the cosmic background radiation. Among other things, WMAP has determined the universe to be 13.77 billion years old to within a half percent.

The universe is 13.77 billion years old, not 6,000 years old.

This is called real science -- theory that has been proven by actual observation.

You call this proof? This isn't science. This is presupposition circular reasoning circle jerk.

"This is Science" lol. Not even close.

A K A Stone  posted on  2013-03-28   20:10:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#25. To: jwpegler (#20)

Here is some science, some facts.

Fact there are billions of dead things buried im mud laid down by water all over the earth.

The Bible says there was a worldwide flood. If that really happened you would expect to see billions of dead things laid down by water all over the earth.

Here is some more facts.

Go to the badlands and you can see the shore lines where the water eroded all over the place.

A K A Stone  posted on  2013-03-28   20:12:12 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#26. To: jwpegler (#20)

And you still haven't answered what came first the penis or the vagina.

For a person to be born it takes two parents. Tell me genius how was a baby born without two parents first.

It is a scientific fact that it takes a male and a female person to produce a child.

Prove to us now oh genius that it happened some other way.

And throwing the virgin birth of Jesus out doesn't cut it either.

A K A Stone  posted on  2013-03-28   20:14:16 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#27. To: redleghunter (#16)

And God declares it in Isaiah 42:

Revelation 13:

And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns...

Do you believe that there will be a literal beast that rises from sea with 7 heads and 10 horns???

Or is this symbology meant to convey an underlying meaning???

You dispensationalists are very inconsistent. You read Genesis literally yet you Revelation figuratively.

You make no sense whatsoever. You are a tiny minority among the world's Christians.


"we must as a species go into a period of shrinkage that we have not experienced since the Dark Ages and the Black Plague" -- lucysmom

jwpegler  posted on  2013-03-28   20:17:42 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#28. To: jwpegler (#27)

And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns...

Do you believe that there will be a literal beast that rises from sea with 7 heads and 10 horns???

Or is this symbology meant to convey an underlying meaning???

The Bible says that it isn't literal. It goes on to explain what it means. Why didn't you quote that part? Are you being disingenious?

The Bible doesn't go on to explain Genesis as symbolic like it does your example of the beast.

That was really lame Jwpegler.

A K A Stone  posted on  2013-03-28   20:20:12 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#29. To: A K A Stone (#22)

How is it proven? Specifically.

I've already told you.

But, your stubborn mind is already made up, so what's the point in beating my head against the wall with you on this?

There is no point.


"we must as a species go into a period of shrinkage that we have not experienced since the Dark Ages and the Black Plague" -- lucysmom

jwpegler  posted on  2013-03-28   20:21:14 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#30. To: jwpegler (#20) (Edited)

Also on the so called big bang. If it happened scientists have said the universe would be expanding at the same rate. Symmetrically. Well they found out it isn't.

Big problem for your religion. Here is a source you can look at to see that it is not expanding symmetrically. I don't take their new conclusions they have to make up but it shows the universe is not expanding at the same rate everywhere.

www.cosmosmagazine.com/ne...expanding-asymmetrically/

A K A Stone  posted on  2013-03-28   20:22:51 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#31. To: jwpegler (#29)

How is it proven? Specifically.

I've already told you.

Yeah you told me. But you didn't even come close to proving anything.

You're biased and ignore the facts.

You still can't answer how a kid was born without two parents.

If we evolved tell me how the sex organs evolved? You can't.

How did they eyes evolve and why? You can't.

You have nothing but a bunch of people in white lab coats that you seem to trust but never verify.

A K A Stone  posted on  2013-03-28   20:24:46 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#32. To: A K A Stone (#26)

And you still haven't answered what came first the penis or the vagina.

For a person to be born it takes two parents. Tell me genius how was a baby born without two parents first.

Asexual reproduction came first.

Some species TODAY alternate between the sexual and asexual reproductive strategies.

From WIKIPEDIA:

Some species alternate between the sexual and asexual strategies, an ability known as heterogamy, depending on conditions. Alternation is observed in several rotifer species and a few types of insects, such as aphids which will, under certain conditions, produce eggs that have not gone through meiosis, thus cloning themselves. The cape bee Apis mellifera subsp. capensis can reproduce asexually through a process called thelytoky. A few species of amphibians, reptiles, and birds have a similar ability (see parthenogenesis for examples). For example, the freshwater crustacean Daphnia reproduces by parthenogenesis in the spring to rapidly populate ponds, then switches to sexual reproduction as the intensity of competition and predation increases. Another example are monogonont rotifers of the genus Brachionus, which reproduce via cyclical parthenogenesis: at low population densities females produce asexually and at higher densities a chemical cue accumulates and induces the transition to sexual reproduction. Many protists and fungi alternate between sexual and asexual reproduction.

The world is stranger than you think Stone


"we must as a species go into a period of shrinkage that we have not experienced since the Dark Ages and the Black Plague" -- lucysmom

jwpegler  posted on  2013-03-28   20:26:09 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#33. To: jwpegler (#32)

Asexual reproduction came first.

Can you show me this in the lab? Show me a video of this happening in the lab. I'm talking about in humans. It is just made up speculation. That isn't science friend. You can't because it didn't. Well you can't.

A K A Stone  posted on  2013-03-28   20:28:41 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#34. To: jwpegler (#32)

Ok you say Asexual reproduction came first.

Ok what did it produce first a penis or a vagina.

Did two separate entities happen to evolve compatible parts? You know a vagina and a penis.

You sound like the wizard of oz.

A K A Stone  posted on  2013-03-28   20:31:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#35. To: A K A Stone (#33)

Can you show me this in the lab?

Yes, it is a proven, OBSERVED, fact that some species of insects, birds, reptiles, etc. switch between asexual reproduction and sexual reproduction.

When there is a shortage of males, the females use asexual reproduction for survival. When is there an abundance of males, they switch to sexual reproduction to pass on the best genes.

PROVEN. OBSERVED. FACT.


"we must as a species go into a period of shrinkage that we have not experienced since the Dark Ages and the Black Plague" -- lucysmom

jwpegler  posted on  2013-03-28   20:49:57 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#36. To: A K A Stone (#34) (Edited)

You sound like the wizard of oz.

And you sound like Gomer Pyle -- SHAZAMMM!!!! God created the earth in 6 days.

Why didn't he do it in 6 seconds?


"we must as a species go into a period of shrinkage that we have not experienced since the Dark Ages and the Black Plague" -- lucysmom

jwpegler  posted on  2013-03-28   20:50:57 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#37. To: redleghunter, a k a stone (#18) (Edited)

All was perfect when God created.

That's not what the Bible says...

God created man. He was lonely. (NOT a perfect world.) So God created animals, but man was still lonely (NOT a perfect world.) Finally, God creates woman.

Also, if man was alone, why did he need a penis??? ROTFLMAO !!!!!!

This is not supposed to be read literally. It's symbolism meant to convey a meaning.

Genesis 2:18 And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

Genesis 2:19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.

Genesis 2:20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.

Genesis 2:21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;

Genesis 2:22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.


"we must as a species go into a period of shrinkage that we have not experienced since the Dark Ages and the Black Plague" -- lucysmom

jwpegler  posted on  2013-03-28   20:57:23 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#38. To: jwpegler (#35)

Yes, it is a proven, OBSERVED, fact that some species of insects, birds, reptiles, etc. switch between asexual reproduction and sexual reproduction.

It is also an observed fact that trees have leaves. Some reproduce asexually. Do you expect to see a person born with leaves for hair? No of course not. We produce after like kind.

Here is another OBSERVED fact. The species that you mentioned were created a certain way. And they keep reproducing after like kind.

Because some cell or plane can reproduce asexually doesn't mean people can.

Here is another OBSERVABLE fact. Only humans can reproduce humans. We never evolve into something else. We have different characteristics but we always reproduce humans.

Here is another OBSERVABLE fact. Cats always reproduce cats. They never turn into something else.

Another OBSERVABLE fact. When I plant an apple tree I am sure that I will not get some new evolved tree. Do you worry about that when you buy a plant that it might evolve into something else? Why not? I'll tell you why because your subconscious is smarter then your conscious here.

A K A Stone  posted on  2013-03-28   21:13:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#39. To: jwpegler, mininggold (#35)

When there is a shortage of males, the females use asexual reproduction for survival.

That is nonsense. I can't believe you think that just because mininggold can't get any men that she can still reproduce. Did you read that in the National Enquirer? OBSERVABLE FACT. NO person has ever asexually reproduced.

A K A Stone  posted on  2013-03-28   21:16:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#40. To: jwpegler (#36)

God created the earth in 6 days.

Why didn't he do it in 6 seconds?

Yes God created the Earth in 6 days, and the Heavens also.

I don't know why he didn't do it in 6 seconds.

I know that there is a book that claims to be from God. It tells a whole lot of interesting stuff about us humans. It says he created us. It says to test it and prove it. It is an like an anvil that has worn out many hammers.

Like I said earlier it says there was a a worldwide flood. If that really happened I would expect to find the fossil record we have today. That is some proof that the Bible is true. One of many "proofs". The satanic religion of evolution has no explanation for the fossil record.

A K A Stone  posted on  2013-03-28   21:19:29 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#41. To: jwpegler (#36)

God created the earth in 6 days.

A couple of questions.

Do you consider yourself a christian?

Do you think that God is capable of giving us his word perfectly?

A K A Stone  posted on  2013-03-28   21:20:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#42. To: jwpegler (#37)

God created man. He was lonely. (NOT a perfect world.) So God created animals, but man was still lonely (NOT a perfect world.) Finally, God creates woman.

When is the creation complete. After of before Eve is created?

A K A Stone  posted on  2013-03-28   21:21:56 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#43. To: jwpegler (#37)

This is not supposed to be read literally. It's symbolism meant to convey a meaning.

You're wrong. If it wasn't meant to be taken literally. It would finish with something like this

"And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast."

That is what it does when it is using symbolism.

A K A Stone  posted on  2013-03-28   21:24:18 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#44. To: redleghunter (#18)

He created Adam and enabled Adam to create Eve. Sounds like He needs to learn to be responsible.

Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET

mininggold  posted on  2013-03-29   10:24:03 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#45. To: A K A Stone (#43)

You're wrong. If it wasn't meant to be taken literally. It would finish with something like this

It appears that none of the Bible is meant to be taken literally because it's a collection of myths and fables showing the evolution of God.

Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET

mininggold  posted on  2013-03-29   10:32:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#46. To: mininggold (#45)

It appears that none of the Bible is meant to be taken literally because it's a collection of myths and fables showing the evolution of God.

Actually, it appears that you offspring of the cult of Pasiphae aren't willing to ante up the scratch necessary to present scientific evidence of your evo-fundie beliefs in open court.

Thunderbird  posted on  2013-03-29   13:40:55 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#47. To: A K A Stone (#39) (Edited)

NO person has ever asexually reproduced.

I never said they did.

You are just making things up because you don't have any provable facts.


"we must as a species go into a period of shrinkage that we have not experienced since the Dark Ages and the Black Plague" -- lucysmom

jwpegler  posted on  2013-03-29   15:15:11 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#48. To: Thunderbird (#46)

To: mininggold

It appears that none of the Bible is meant to be taken literally because it's a collection of myths and fables showing the evolution of God. Actually, it appears that you offspring of the cult of Pasiphae aren't willing to ante up the scratch necessary to present scientific evidence of your evo-fundie beliefs in open court.

God goes from the mean, vengeful god of the Jews to the sweet Christian one full of forgiveness and redemption, all in 2000 years. What other proof do you need but the Bible?

Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET

mininggold  posted on  2013-03-29   15:16:47 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#49. To: A K A Stone (#40) (Edited)

he satanic religion of evolution has no explanation for the fossil record.

We're not talking about evolution. We're talking about physics -- the age of the universe.

I agree that evolution has all kinds of problems. The more things we discover, the more problems evolution has.

BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT HERE. We're talking about the age of the universe.

Unlike evolution, the more we learn about the universe, the more the standard model of physics is PROVEN correct. The universe is 13.8 billion years old. The earth is 4.5 billion years old. There is NO question about this.

Again Stone, you don't have any real evidence to support your views, so you change the subject to evolution, which has a growing number of issues.

Pitiful.


"we must as a species go into a period of shrinkage that we have not experienced since the Dark Ages and the Black Plague" -- lucysmom

jwpegler  posted on  2013-03-29   15:20:25 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#50. To: A K A Stone (#38)

It is also an observed fact that trees have leaves. Some reproduce asexually. Do you expect to see a person born with leaves for hair?

Are you retarded or what? Seriously.


"we must as a species go into a period of shrinkage that we have not experienced since the Dark Ages and the Black Plague" -- lucysmom

jwpegler  posted on  2013-03-29   15:23:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#51. To: A K A Stone (#39)

That is nonsense. I can't believe you think that just because mininggold can't get any men that she can still reproduce.

Why are you so obsessed with everyone's sex life here? I bet you've been arrested for peeping through your neighbor's bedroom windows.

Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET

mininggold  posted on  2013-03-29   15:24:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#52. To: jwpegler (#49)

Unlike evolution, the more we learn about the universe, the more the standard model of physics is PROVEN correct.

I really don't want to get into this too much because it's mostly futile. However, your statement about this being PROVEN is a bit ignorant. Outside of mathematics, nothing is really proven in science ( and some of that is questionable). What you can say is there are a lot of mutually agreeable arguments for the age of the universe being billions of years.

But if you think that that anyone who says God created the heavens and earth some 6000 years must be some inbred moron, you'd be wrong on this too. Many knowledgeable young earth creationists present sound backing for their ideas; they are just mostly ignored.

Obama has played at being a president while enjoying the perks … golf, insanely expensive vacations at tax-payer expense. He has ignored the responsibilities of the job; no plans, no budgets, no alternatives … just finger pointing; making him a complete failure as a president

no gnu taxes  posted on  2013-03-29   15:33:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#53. To: mininggold (#51)

Speaking of being arrested, I'm surprised you haven't benn arrested and committed for being that "crazy old lady" mumbling to herself and acting dangerous.

Obama has played at being a president while enjoying the perks … golf, insanely expensive vacations at tax-payer expense. He has ignored the responsibilities of the job; no plans, no budgets, no alternatives … just finger pointing; making him a complete failure as a president

no gnu taxes  posted on  2013-03-29   15:38:14 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#54. To: no gnu taxes, A K A Stone (#52) (Edited)

Again, the more we learn about evolution, the more we know that it's wrong. We have never found any intermediate species that the Darwinist's predicted we would. The evidence has not materialized. Darwinism is as much a religion as fundamentalist Christianity, because they don't have any evidence and because they don't believe that they can be proven wrong.

Physics is a different story. Physics is proven wrong all of the time. Unlike evolutionists, physicists are willing to be proven wrong.

However, observation over the last four decades has been right in line with with the early theories of the expanding universe and the prediction of the evidence that we would find left over from the big bang (the cosmic background radiation). We have now heard the cosmic background radiation. We have now seen the cosmic background radiation. It's there, just as predicted. Observation has proven the theory -- real science.

It tells us that the universe is a little less than 13.8 BILLION years old.

As I said early, maybe we are all just part of a computer simulation with God as the programmer and god planted all of this evidence. But the evidence is there. There is no denying it.

I have to get on a plane. I'll be back tomorrow.


"we must as a species go into a period of shrinkage that we have not experienced since the Dark Ages and the Black Plague" -- lucysmom

jwpegler  posted on  2013-03-29   16:47:45 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#55. To: jwpegler, A K A Stone, ALL Creationists and Evolutionists (#49)

We're not talking about evolution. We're talking about physics -- the age of the universe.

I agree that evolution has all kinds of problems. The more things we discover, the more problems evolution has.

And in BOTH cases you haven't a SCIENTIFIC leg to stand on. That's right - the cult of science can't "prove" a damned thing -- the establishment high preists of science just refuse to admit it and junk their fake "facts" (like "man-made global warming.") Why not? Human nature. Not many are willing to admit their entire belief system is wrong.

Of course the ENTIRE Theory of Evolution is a fraud. And so is the Big Bang. Don't even go there -- REAL scientists no longer want to embarrass themselves by talking about either any more. In respected scientist Michael Behe's 'Darwin's Black Box', he reveals an admission that Darwin basically was lunatic grasping at straws while noting that the tiniest living organism and its processes are MORE complicated than the workings of a entire city. The more scientists examine life and this Universe the MORE they accept irrefutable evidence of a Creator.

Unlike evolution, the more we learn about the universe, the more the standard model of physics is PROVEN correct. The universe is 13.8 billion years old. The earth is 4.5 billion years old. There is NO question about this.

Again. The respective age of the universe AND earth (as Stone has already contended) are also unproven BS. But it's not your fault -- you, like scientists are just parroting the cards of dogma you've been handed down as "fact" in whatever area explaining the age of the Earth....OR Universe. Maybe I can help clarify or illuminate the issues and offer a conduit of knowledge. Scientific knowledge. And yes, the Bible is VERY helpful in providing (or reinforcing) evidence of a Young Earth. Read that info in the link near the bottom of this post if you're interested. If not, then you're really not curious or open-minded about up until recently has been one of THE great mysteries.

Firstly, dating methods: Erroneous, and totally inaccurate. But that has been the primary basis of determining the age of the earth, hasn't it? We never hear how inaccurate the different methods actually are, do we?

This planet before the Great Flood (a world-wide proven scientific event) was a radically different planet. Science (through fossil records) sez there was once evidence of warm weather and abundance of life at both poles. Science has found sea shells on Mount Everest. All animals (through fossils) were generally found to be MUCH larger in the past; The Bible (yes, the Bible) also tells us man was larger as well - AND lived longer. How can that be? Doesn't that kinda break all the "rules" and laws of nature? So what kind of planet was it and what happened to change both the geography, weather, flora, fauna? And is it possible many "laws of nature" were indeed affected by the event of the Great Flood?

THE GREAT FLOOD. Oh, and you'll appreciate this, Stone. The Bible of course tells us and Noah about the rain, which came in torrents. But people miss THIS explanation for the Flood covering the planet: Genesis 7:11 -- "In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened." Get that? "The founts of the deep" -- God busted open and released the subterranean waters of the planet to help create The Great Flood!

Fossils -- all and any of them -- can only be formed when life forms are swept away quickly and buried quickly under tremendous force BEFORE it can decay. It happened ONCE. During the Cataclysm of The Great Flood. Animal and plants created strata which are NOT "millions" of years old but....yes, thousands. The Bible IS right. AGAIN.

Oddly, below the sedimentary strata created by the Great Flood is the pre-Cambrian period. Guess what? THERE ARE ZERO FOSSILS AT THAT LEVEL OR BELOW! No fossils embedded in granite either. What's that also prove? It proves that BEFORE the Great Flood dinosaurs lived. No, NOT 65 million years ago during the Triassic Era (btw, the "Eras" assigned to dinosaurs and all "prehistoric life" is based again on the strata created BY the Great Flood.) Thus the "Cambrian" represents the bottom layer of strata washed away from The Flood, and the Pliocene Era the next to last. The faster mammals and smaller reptiles made it to the higher ground of the highest strata (found in the Pliocene), while the slower animals (like dinosaurs) are found in lower -- again all in neat layers consider by science as "eras" of what them claim is millions of years. Of note -- these strata are not found at uniform levels around the world.

The Pliocene Era is the most active days of the new earth when the Flood ended. As the waters receded mountain chains began lifting up and forming as continents rose, ocean basins dropped (pre-Flood, seas were shallow and...there were no mountains (according to the Bible.) The quick process of the earth changing is referred to as "Catastrophism" (as opposed to science's claim of "Uniformitarianism" -- the gradual millions/billions years of change in the earth.)

Needless the say, the planet underwent a TOTAL and radical makeover. The planet was literally busting at its seams. All the volcanoes above and below the seas began bellowing and spewing lava, smoke and pollutants, helping to create more land....and The Ice Age. More animals died off and became extinct as the earth cooled, the air became fairly toxic, and sunlight was impeded. But by then, the atmosphere changed, air pressure changed, the magnetism of the earth changed, the pole position may have been altered...apparently resulting in a further reduction of flora and fauna...AND the shrinkage and radically lowered age expectation of both animal AND man. As per the Bible, man often live to be 500 years old BEFORE the Flood.

THERE WAS NO METEOR that caused the death of dinosaurs and Ice Age (which was really QUITE recent.) So how old IS the earth? According to the Bible (and science)...life appears to be no more than 6,000-8,000 years old. The planet and universe? Much younger than we think, but EVERYONE is just guessing (especially since all those dating methods are based on faulty baselines and rates of decay.)

To both of you and all: For fascinating detailed info in a scientific (pegler, you will especially appreciate this - even as a secular evolutionist) book called, The Evolution Handbook. OR, you can peruse the book as a FREE download:

http://evolutionfacts.com/Downloads.htm

By Chapter:

Introduction; Preface: A Treasure House of Information; A Theory Already Collapsed

1 - History of Evolutionary Theory (How modern science got into this problem)

2 - The Big Bang and Stellar Evolution (Why the Big Bang is a fizzle and stars cannot evolve out of gas)

3 - The Origin of the Earth (Why the Earth did not evolve out of a molten state)

4 - The Age of the Earth (Why the Earth is not millions of years old)

5 - The Problem of Time (Why long ages cannot produce evolutionary change)

6 - Inaccurate Dating Methods (Why the non-historical dating techniques are unreliable)

7 - The Primitive Environment (Why raw materials on earth cannot produce life)

8 - DNA and Protein (Why DNA and protein could not be produced by random chance)

9 - Natural Selection (Why natural selection only makes changes within species)

10 - Mutations (Why mutations cannot produce cross-species change)

11 - Animal and Plant Species (Why the species barrier cannot be broken)

12A - Fossils and Strata (Why the fossil/strata theory is a hoax)

12B - Fossils and Strata (Why the fossil/strata theory is a hoax)

13 - Ancient Man (Why there is no evidence humans have evolved from anything)

14 - Effects of the Flood (What actually happened after the Flood)

15 - Similarities and Divergence (Why similar structures are not an evidence of evolution)

16 - Vestiges and Recapitulation (You have no useless or unnecessary structures inherited from earlier life forms)

17 - Evolutionary Showcase (The best examples of evolution have proven worthless)

18 - The Laws of Nature (The laws of nature oppose the evolutionary theory)

19 - Evolution, Morality, and Violence (Evolutionary theory is ruining modern civilization)

20 - Tectonics and Paleomagnetism (The truth about plate tectonics and paleomagnetism)

21 - Archaeological Dating (Correlating Egyptian and other archaeological dates with the Bible)

22 - Evolutionary Science Fiction (Fabulous fairy tales which only tiny children can believe)

23 - Scientists Speak (Evolutionary scientists say the theory is unscientific and worthless)

24 - Utterly Impossible (Things evolution could never invent)

25 - The Latest Evolution Crisis (The most recent news [to 2006] in the Evolution Battle)

26 - The Case for Intelligent Design (The evidence keeps getting stronger)

27 - Summary of the Anthropic Principle (Discovering a flood of coincidences)

28 - Eighteen Factors Disproving Evolution (Evolution flunks the science test)

29 - Say It Simple (What is this all about?)

30 - Problems with Big Bang Creationism (When opposites are combined)

31 - Will You Defend God in this Time of Crisis? (Schools, Employment, and Churches)

Whatever your respective beliefs, this read and research (yes, by REAL scientists and science -- even Christians respect and discover real scientific facts) will cause you to reconsider erasing the blackboard and starting all over again.

Liberator  posted on  2013-03-29   18:21:44 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#56. To: jwpegler (#35)

When there is a shortage of males, the females use asexual reproduction for survival. When is there an abundance of males, they switch to sexual reproduction to pass on the best genes.

PROVEN. OBSERVED. FACT.

In which primitive species??

Liberator  posted on  2013-03-29   18:39:18 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#57. To: jwpegler (#32)

Asexual reproduction came first.

Oh, stop.

So your highest food chain example of "asexual reproduction" is WHAT?? Birds, amphibians and reptiles?

Which ones? Source? (and please -- NOT wiki, ok??)

Liberator  posted on  2013-03-29   18:42:31 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#58. To: jwpegler (#1)

The bible shouldn't be read literally. Israelites: We wandered in the desert for 40 years. Native Americas: We haven't had rain in many moons. 40 years, many moons -- both mean a really long time. God created the universe in 6 days. 6 days means a very short time, because god is powerful. They are expressions, not accurate measures of time.

In many cases it indeed IS literal.

All evidence points to the earth being about 4.5 billion years old, in a universe that's 13.8 billion years old. There is no evidence, anywhere that demonstrates that the earth and universe are 6,000 years old. NONE.

On the contrary -- your finger-in-the-wind 13.8 billion year old earth age is one of many arbitrary age given to the planet of the last hundred or so years. One such scientific "expert" started at 20 million years. Then as science became more desperate for time (and like their their gazillion chimps typing 24/7 for a gazillion years metaphor), they hope to one day cobble a evo fairy tale based on crumb of scientific "proof."

In an above post I have submitted for your scientific curiosity and search for the truth a source of REAL science and variables that completely and utterly refute your claims of definitive ages of both the planet and universe.

Sience is very clear about the age of the universe -- including brand new evidence from high resolution scans of the cosmic microwave background radiation. We have to go with what we can prove through science.

At the site/in the nook, addressed. Refuted. NEXT.

Liberator  posted on  2013-03-29   18:57:23 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  



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