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		<title>By: Teaching English in Taiwan</title>
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		<title>By: donald_hebfour</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:47:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>the strawman is that you are assuming these are must haves for&lt;br&gt;evolutionary theories to have muster. they are not! evolution is the&lt;br&gt;theory that populations naturally select genes and mutate over time&lt;br&gt;(So, are yousaying that natural selection and mutation over time are two “must&lt;br&gt;haves?”). that it. that&#039;s all that it is. the notion&lt;br&gt;(what the heck to do mean by&lt;br&gt;“notion?”  sounds as if you&#039;re asserting that science is&lt;br&gt;stimulated and controlled by notions.) of human origins&lt;br&gt;argues that homo sapiens shared common ancestry in a POPULATION with&lt;br&gt;other primates (so, are you&lt;br&gt;saying that homo sapiens and other primates were interbreeding at&lt;br&gt;some time in the distant past?) and the gene pool we share&lt;br&gt;simply (what do you mean by&lt;br&gt;“simply” here?  Nothing about evolution seems simple.)&lt;br&gt;won out and THEN adapted (“adapted?”&lt;br&gt;distinguish that from natural selection.) over time.&lt;br&gt;that&#039;s why all of your confusion with cosmology here is a strawman.&lt;br&gt;you want evolutionary biology to be what ken miller is NOT arguing&lt;br&gt;and thus you are reaching wrong conclusions (this&lt;br&gt;is where you may have gone off the mark:  I&#039;m not confused with&lt;br&gt;cosmology; I&#039;m asserting that the principles of how cosmology&lt;br&gt;“evolves” - to use the evolutionist&#039;s word – are similar to the&lt;br&gt;principles of the “evolution of species.”  nothing more, nothing&lt;br&gt;less.)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;moreover, the &quot;assertions&quot;&lt;br&gt;to which you refer are actually called &quot;hypotheses&quot; that&lt;br&gt;when tested either confirm phenomena or disconfirm pheonomena. when&lt;br&gt;confirmed over time, these hypotheses become theories due to their&lt;br&gt;power to explain and predict phenomena. that&#039;s the fricking&lt;br&gt;scientific method! you almost equate evolution to the search for&lt;br&gt;aliens or alien abductions which bear no predictabilty, are not the&lt;br&gt;BEST explanations for phenomena, and cannot be dublicated with&lt;br&gt;various sources of evidence other than personal narratives. that&#039;s&lt;br&gt;why it is an ethnographic interest in anthropology, not a scientific&lt;br&gt;matter! (no comment other&lt;br&gt;than this sounds like a rant.)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Also, saying&lt;br&gt;&quot;e. somehow amino acids got formed;&quot; just shows how little&lt;br&gt;you clearly understand the theories that are used to describe how&lt;br&gt;amino acids form. for instance, we can create these acids in labs in&lt;br&gt;a water base under specific conditions.  we know (just&lt;br&gt;HOW do you “know?”) what the conditions were like on&lt;br&gt;earth when these acids developed over a very very long time with&lt;br&gt;intense heat, base chemicals, and glass-like surfaces at the boiling&lt;br&gt;hot bottom of crater wells. university scientists at institutions&lt;br&gt;like oregon, harvard, and others are studying these pheonomenon that&lt;br&gt;CAN be replicated with a compelling argument that the origin of human&lt;br&gt;life is of alien origin. that would explain in part how the base&lt;br&gt;chemicals got on this planet and makes sense if you think about how&lt;br&gt;raw the planet was in its first few millenia.  (so,&lt;br&gt;are you saying that the chemicals used in live organisms formed under&lt;br&gt;specific conditions but they needed alien life to give the chemicals&lt;br&gt;life?  Were they illegal aliens?)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;some&lt;br&gt;physicists are convinced that string theory works. others are not.&lt;br&gt;it&#039;s up for debate. why is it up for debate? no none has observed the&lt;br&gt;phenomenon!  (wow, you&lt;br&gt;haven&#039;t observed this phenomenon, yet another phenomenon – the&lt;br&gt;beginning of everything – which you also have not observed, you&lt;br&gt;feel very comfortable structuring an entire science -  evolutionary&lt;br&gt;science.  Do you see the dichotomy?) it was only decades&lt;br&gt;after special relativity that it the theory was confirmed again and again which is why it is&lt;br&gt;the basis of physics today. likewise it was only decades after bohr&lt;br&gt;that it was confirmed he was right about quantum fluctuations and&lt;br&gt;einstein was wrong. (as I&lt;br&gt;understand it, string theory explains quantum theory&#039;s inability to&lt;br&gt;explain where anything is at any moment.  Which makes it highly&lt;br&gt;useful.)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;arguing about whether evolution is&lt;br&gt;true or not is like arguing with a physicist is gravity is real or&lt;br&gt;not.  (this is another “from&lt;br&gt;left field” comment because evolution, at least as you&#039;ve described&lt;br&gt;it, doesn&#039;t have much explanatory utility.) just because&lt;br&gt;you do not &quot;See&quot; them in the academic field arguing&lt;br&gt;different evolutionary models to explain observed phenonena does not mean that they do! regularly.&lt;br&gt;they present papers, which pass through peer-review, which get&lt;br&gt;presented at conferences etc... (paper&lt;br&gt;presentations, peer-review, conferences, etc. equals many&lt;br&gt;opportunities for group-groping but not much, if any, reproducing. &lt;br&gt;Which leads me to ask how did reproduction start?)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>the strawman is that you are assuming these are must haves for<br />evolutionary theories to have muster. they are not! evolution is the<br />theory that populations naturally select genes and mutate over time<br />(So, are yousaying that natural selection and mutation over time are two “must<br />haves?”). that it. that&#39;s all that it is. the notion<br />(what the heck to do mean by<br />“notion?”  sounds as if you&#39;re asserting that science is<br />stimulated and controlled by notions.) of human origins<br />argues that homo sapiens shared common ancestry in a POPULATION with<br />other primates (so, are you<br />saying that homo sapiens and other primates were interbreeding at<br />some time in the distant past?) and the gene pool we share<br />simply (what do you mean by<br />“simply” here?  Nothing about evolution seems simple.)<br />won out and THEN adapted (“adapted?”<br />distinguish that from natural selection.) over time.<br />that&#39;s why all of your confusion with cosmology here is a strawman.<br />you want evolutionary biology to be what ken miller is NOT arguing<br />and thus you are reaching wrong conclusions (this<br />is where you may have gone off the mark:  I&#39;m not confused with<br />cosmology; I&#39;m asserting that the principles of how cosmology<br />“evolves” &#8211; to use the evolutionist&#39;s word – are similar to the<br />principles of the “evolution of species.”  nothing more, nothing<br />less.)</p>
<p>moreover, the &#034;assertions&#034;<br />to which you refer are actually called &#034;hypotheses&#034; that<br />when tested either confirm phenomena or disconfirm pheonomena. when<br />confirmed over time, these hypotheses become theories due to their<br />power to explain and predict phenomena. that&#39;s the fricking<br />scientific method! you almost equate evolution to the search for<br />aliens or alien abductions which bear no predictabilty, are not the<br />BEST explanations for phenomena, and cannot be dublicated with<br />various sources of evidence other than personal narratives. that&#39;s<br />why it is an ethnographic interest in anthropology, not a scientific<br />matter! (no comment other<br />than this sounds like a rant.)</p>
<p>Also, saying<br />&#034;e. somehow amino acids got formed;&#034; just shows how little<br />you clearly understand the theories that are used to describe how<br />amino acids form. for instance, we can create these acids in labs in<br />a water base under specific conditions.  we know (just<br />HOW do you “know?”) what the conditions were like on<br />earth when these acids developed over a very very long time with<br />intense heat, base chemicals, and glass-like surfaces at the boiling<br />hot bottom of crater wells. university scientists at institutions<br />like oregon, harvard, and others are studying these pheonomenon that<br />CAN be replicated with a compelling argument that the origin of human<br />life is of alien origin. that would explain in part how the base<br />chemicals got on this planet and makes sense if you think about how<br />raw the planet was in its first few millenia.  (so,<br />are you saying that the chemicals used in live organisms formed under<br />specific conditions but they needed alien life to give the chemicals<br />life?  Were they illegal aliens?)</p>
<p>some<br />physicists are convinced that string theory works. others are not.<br />it&#39;s up for debate. why is it up for debate? no none has observed the<br />phenomenon!  (wow, you<br />haven&#39;t observed this phenomenon, yet another phenomenon – the<br />beginning of everything – which you also have not observed, you<br />feel very comfortable structuring an entire science &#8211;  evolutionary<br />science.  Do you see the dichotomy?) it was only decades<br />after special relativity that it the theory was confirmed again and again which is why it is<br />the basis of physics today. likewise it was only decades after bohr<br />that it was confirmed he was right about quantum fluctuations and<br />einstein was wrong. (as I<br />understand it, string theory explains quantum theory&#39;s inability to<br />explain where anything is at any moment.  Which makes it highly<br />useful.)</p>
<p>arguing about whether evolution is<br />true or not is like arguing with a physicist is gravity is real or<br />not.  (this is another “from<br />left field” comment because evolution, at least as you&#39;ve described<br />it, doesn&#39;t have much explanatory utility.) just because<br />you do not &#034;See&#034; them in the academic field arguing<br />different evolutionary models to explain observed phenonena does not mean that they do! regularly.<br />they present papers, which pass through peer-review, which get<br />presented at conferences etc&#8230; (paper<br />presentations, peer-review, conferences, etc. equals many<br />opportunities for group-groping but not much, if any, reproducing. <br />Which leads me to ask how did reproduction start?)</p>
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		<title>By: Drew Tatusko</title>
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		<dc:creator>Drew Tatusko</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:57:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>the strawman is that you are assuming these are must haves for evolutionary theories to have muster. they are not! evolution is the theory that populations naturally select genes and mutate over time. that it. that&#039;s all that it is. the notion of human origins argues that homo sapiens shared common ancestry in a POPULATION with other primates and the gene pool we share simply won out and THEN adapted over time. that&#039;s why all of your confusion with cosmology here is a strawman. you want evolutionary biology to be what ken miller is NOT arguing and thus you are reaching wrong conclusions.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;moreover, the &quot;assertions&quot; to which you refer are actually called &quot;hypotheses&quot; that when tested either confirm phenomena or disconfirm pheonomena. when confirmed over time, these hypotheses become theories due to their power to explain and predict phenomena. that&#039;s the fricking scientific method! you almost equate evolution to the search for aliens or alien abductions which bear no predictabilty, are not the BEST explanations for phenomena, and cannot be dublicated with various sources of evidence other than personal narratives. that&#039;s why it is an ethnographic interest in anthropology, not a scientific matter! &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Also, saying &quot;e. somehow amino acids got formed;&quot; just shows how little you clearly understand the theories that are used to describe how amino acids form. for instance, we can create these acids in labs in a water base under specific conditions.  we know what the conditions were like on earth when these acids developed over a very very long time with intense heat, base chemicals, and glass-like surfaces at the boiling hot bottom of crater wells. university scientists at institutions like oregon, harvard, and others are studying these pheonomenon that CAN be replicated with a compelling argument that the origin of human life is of alien origin. that would explain in part how the base chemicals got on this planet and makes sense if you think about how raw the planet was in its first few millenia.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;some physicists are convinced that string theory works. others are not. it&#039;s up for debate. why is it up for debate? no none has observed the phenomenon! it was only decades after special relativity that it the theory was confirmed again and again which is why it is the basis of physics today. likewise it was only decades after bohr that it was confirmed he was right about quantum fluctuations and einstein was wrong.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;arguing about whether evolution is true or not is like arguing with a physicist is gravity is real or not. just because you do not &quot;See&quot; them in the academic field arguing different evolutionary models to explain observed phenonena does not mean that they do! regularly. they present papers, which pass through peer-review, which get presented at conferences etc...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>the strawman is that you are assuming these are must haves for evolutionary theories to have muster. they are not! evolution is the theory that populations naturally select genes and mutate over time. that it. that&#39;s all that it is. the notion of human origins argues that homo sapiens shared common ancestry in a POPULATION with other primates and the gene pool we share simply won out and THEN adapted over time. that&#39;s why all of your confusion with cosmology here is a strawman. you want evolutionary biology to be what ken miller is NOT arguing and thus you are reaching wrong conclusions.</p>
<p>moreover, the &#034;assertions&#034; to which you refer are actually called &#034;hypotheses&#034; that when tested either confirm phenomena or disconfirm pheonomena. when confirmed over time, these hypotheses become theories due to their power to explain and predict phenomena. that&#39;s the fricking scientific method! you almost equate evolution to the search for aliens or alien abductions which bear no predictabilty, are not the BEST explanations for phenomena, and cannot be dublicated with various sources of evidence other than personal narratives. that&#39;s why it is an ethnographic interest in anthropology, not a scientific matter! </p>
<p>Also, saying &#034;e. somehow amino acids got formed;&#034; just shows how little you clearly understand the theories that are used to describe how amino acids form. for instance, we can create these acids in labs in a water base under specific conditions.  we know what the conditions were like on earth when these acids developed over a very very long time with intense heat, base chemicals, and glass-like surfaces at the boiling hot bottom of crater wells. university scientists at institutions like oregon, harvard, and others are studying these pheonomenon that CAN be replicated with a compelling argument that the origin of human life is of alien origin. that would explain in part how the base chemicals got on this planet and makes sense if you think about how raw the planet was in its first few millenia.</p>
<p>some physicists are convinced that string theory works. others are not. it&#39;s up for debate. why is it up for debate? no none has observed the phenomenon! it was only decades after special relativity that it the theory was confirmed again and again which is why it is the basis of physics today. likewise it was only decades after bohr that it was confirmed he was right about quantum fluctuations and einstein was wrong.</p>
<p>arguing about whether evolution is true or not is like arguing with a physicist is gravity is real or not. just because you do not &#034;See&#034; them in the academic field arguing different evolutionary models to explain observed phenonena does not mean that they do! regularly. they present papers, which pass through peer-review, which get presented at conferences etc&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: donald_hebfour</title>
		<link>http://notes-from-offcenter.com/2009/05/19/dr-ken-miller-breaks-down-human-evolution/comment-page-1/#comment-5973</link>
		<dc:creator>donald_hebfour</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 02:24:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Evolutionary biologists must make certain assumptions ***so that*** they can &quot;make assertions.&quot;  After all, matter is here.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Please allow me to review briefly some of the assumptions that are &quot;must haves&quot; for evolutionists whether biologists, cosmologists, paleontologists or what have you.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;a.  the universe had a beginning 15-20 billion years ago (pretty big spread, but let&#039;s go with it anyway);&lt;br&gt;b.  &quot;before that&quot; the universe was about the size of a walnut: with the &quot;potential&quot; for every molecule in the universe (stars, galaxies, water, humans, you name it);&lt;br&gt;c.  there was no time &quot;before that&quot; and there was no &quot;space&quot;; laws underlying the universe have not changed over time&lt;br&gt;d.  life came from the &quot;primeval oceans&quot; (&quot;pre-biotic soup)&quot;;&lt;br&gt;e.  somehow amino acids got formed;&lt;br&gt;f.   then DNA (no telling where the information came from to do that);&lt;br&gt;g.  then single-celled leading to multi-celled organisms;&lt;br&gt;h.  cold-blooded leading to warm-blooded animals; invertebrates leading to vertebrates;&lt;br&gt;i.   &quot;higher&quot; animals became &quot;moral&quot; &quot;rational&quot; (&quot;spiritual&quot;?);&lt;br&gt;j.   there&#039;s lots more...&lt;br&gt;++++++++++++++++++&lt;br&gt;paleontologists point to vast geologic strata and using some tools &quot;postulate&quot; lower life forms in &quot;older/deeper&quot; strata and higher life forms in &quot;younger/superficial&quot; strata.  these &quot;findings&quot; coupled with &quot;evolving features&quot; of fish, birds, etc., evolutionists offer these theories as &quot;fact&quot; in thousands of volumes, documentaries, videos, etc.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I don&#039;t have to build &quot;strawmen&quot; because thus far, accepting ANY of the aforementioned is preposterous.  Yet, this is what passes for &quot;science&quot; and I am appalled that it&#039;s gotten to this point.  Surely you are being facetious when you assert that evolutionary biologists...&quot;make no assertions about the origin of matter, only its change in populations over time...&quot; as if they are just these humble statisticians, observing and describing change:  hah.  How honorable is the evolutionary biologist community?  I don&#039;t see a groundswell of tens of thousands of members of this community rising up and demanding editing, reprinting texts (especially in middle and high school), conducting seminars, releasing news items, producing videos, etc., explaining that they didn&#039;t really mean all the stuff they&#039;ve been claiming over the years and that&#039;s still being taught (On the ***Origin*** of Species?).  Naw, that&#039;s just not going to happen.  So, who&#039;s left to set the&lt;br&gt; record straight?  Maybe what you&#039;re telling me is that evolutionary biologists have painted themselves into the &quot;just watching and describing the changes&quot; corner.  Please don&#039;t tell me that there are significant differences between the arguments of cosmology and evolutionary biology ***about matter*** and then assert that I&#039;m building strawmen; not when you&#039;ve just finished saying that the evolutionary biologist &quot;...asserts...only (matter&#039;s) change over time.&quot;  If the evolutionary biologist only describes change in matter over time, that&#039;s not an argument, it&#039;s a description (on the way to a theory); so they have no argument.  If, on the other hand, you are saying that the evolutionary biologist argues that matter changes over time, I have to disagree (1st Law of thermodynamics).  But, more importantly, I doubt that the evolutionary biologists would agree that their discipline is concerned with the change in matter over time.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In an earlier post you said something about Einstein getting it wrong and the proponents of quantum theory getting it &quot;right.&quot;  Relativity and quantum mechanics are two distinct disciplines with two distinctly different applications (big things vs little things).  Are they connected somehow by string theory?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Evolutionary biologists must make certain assumptions ***so that*** they can &#034;make assertions.&#034;  After all, matter is here.</p>
<p>Please allow me to review briefly some of the assumptions that are &#034;must haves&#034; for evolutionists whether biologists, cosmologists, paleontologists or what have you.</p>
<p>a.  the universe had a beginning 15-20 billion years ago (pretty big spread, but let&#39;s go with it anyway);<br />b.  &#034;before that&#034; the universe was about the size of a walnut: with the &#034;potential&#034; for every molecule in the universe (stars, galaxies, water, humans, you name it);<br />c.  there was no time &#034;before that&#034; and there was no &#034;space&#034;; laws underlying the universe have not changed over time<br />d.  life came from the &#034;primeval oceans&#034; (&#034;pre-biotic soup)&#034;;<br />e.  somehow amino acids got formed;<br />f.   then DNA (no telling where the information came from to do that);<br />g.  then single-celled leading to multi-celled organisms;<br />h.  cold-blooded leading to warm-blooded animals; invertebrates leading to vertebrates;<br />i.   &#034;higher&#034; animals became &#034;moral&#034; &#034;rational&#034; (&#034;spiritual&#034;?);<br />j.   there&#39;s lots more&#8230;<br />++++++++++++++++++<br />paleontologists point to vast geologic strata and using some tools &#034;postulate&#034; lower life forms in &#034;older/deeper&#034; strata and higher life forms in &#034;younger/superficial&#034; strata.  these &#034;findings&#034; coupled with &#034;evolving features&#034; of fish, birds, etc., evolutionists offer these theories as &#034;fact&#034; in thousands of volumes, documentaries, videos, etc.</p>
<p>I don&#39;t have to build &#034;strawmen&#034; because thus far, accepting ANY of the aforementioned is preposterous.  Yet, this is what passes for &#034;science&#034; and I am appalled that it&#39;s gotten to this point.  Surely you are being facetious when you assert that evolutionary biologists&#8230;&#034;make no assertions about the origin of matter, only its change in populations over time&#8230;&#034; as if they are just these humble statisticians, observing and describing change:  hah.  How honorable is the evolutionary biologist community?  I don&#39;t see a groundswell of tens of thousands of members of this community rising up and demanding editing, reprinting texts (especially in middle and high school), conducting seminars, releasing news items, producing videos, etc., explaining that they didn&#39;t really mean all the stuff they&#39;ve been claiming over the years and that&#39;s still being taught (On the ***Origin*** of Species?).  Naw, that&#39;s just not going to happen.  So, who&#39;s left to set the<br /> record straight?  Maybe what you&#39;re telling me is that evolutionary biologists have painted themselves into the &#034;just watching and describing the changes&#034; corner.  Please don&#39;t tell me that there are significant differences between the arguments of cosmology and evolutionary biology ***about matter*** and then assert that I&#39;m building strawmen; not when you&#39;ve just finished saying that the evolutionary biologist &#034;&#8230;asserts&#8230;only (matter&#39;s) change over time.&#034;  If the evolutionary biologist only describes change in matter over time, that&#39;s not an argument, it&#39;s a description (on the way to a theory); so they have no argument.  If, on the other hand, you are saying that the evolutionary biologist argues that matter changes over time, I have to disagree (1st Law of thermodynamics).  But, more importantly, I doubt that the evolutionary biologists would agree that their discipline is concerned with the change in matter over time.</p>
<p>In an earlier post you said something about Einstein getting it wrong and the proponents of quantum theory getting it &#034;right.&#034;  Relativity and quantum mechanics are two distinct disciplines with two distinctly different applications (big things vs little things).  Are they connected somehow by string theory?</p>
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		<title>By: Drew Tatusko</title>
		<link>http://notes-from-offcenter.com/2009/05/19/dr-ken-miller-breaks-down-human-evolution/comment-page-1/#comment-5972</link>
		<dc:creator>Drew Tatusko</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 06:06:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;evolutionists&quot; i am assuming you mean evolutionary biolgists lest we confuse science with ideology, make no assertions about the origin of matter, only its change in populations over time - and that includes bacteria. cosmology and evolutionary biology make two very different sets of arguments about matter and you cannot confuse the two. so you claim here is again, a strawman.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#034;evolutionists&#034; i am assuming you mean evolutionary biolgists lest we confuse science with ideology, make no assertions about the origin of matter, only its change in populations over time &#8211; and that includes bacteria. cosmology and evolutionary biology make two very different sets of arguments about matter and you cannot confuse the two. so you claim here is again, a strawman.</p>
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		<title>By: donald_hebfour</title>
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		<dc:creator>donald_hebfour</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:49:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Splendid, science uses its tests and provides insight into einstein&#039;s proposal about particle physics...a science subject.  Comparing apples with apples is why science is so adept at performing tests and experiments, hypothesizing, theorizing, etc.  As long as it stays within materialistic boundaries, it will be able to provide solutions to puzzling (you may call them &quot;irrational&quot;) questions...even to the extent of predicting the &quot;unpredictable.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Evolutionists have no way (using materialistic means) of proving where matter came from let alone the laws that make matter what it is after/before it became matter.  Evolutionists can hypothesize about the present configuration of the local universe and what they consider &quot;quantum&quot; leaps about the distant.  Evolutionists are loathe to use all of the tools at their disposal, though, for to do so would be materialistically illogical.  As far as an evolutionist is concerned, nothing exists but matter and only matter can come from matter.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I assume that evolutionists are continuing in their vain attempt(s) to story-tell their way out of the consequences of the 2nd law of thermodynamics...just as you did with your suggestion that crystals explained it away.  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Perhaps you understand theology; perhaps the Creator doesn&#039;t know you.  Which is more important?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Splendid, science uses its tests and provides insight into einstein&#39;s proposal about particle physics&#8230;a science subject.  Comparing apples with apples is why science is so adept at performing tests and experiments, hypothesizing, theorizing, etc.  As long as it stays within materialistic boundaries, it will be able to provide solutions to puzzling (you may call them &#034;irrational&#034;) questions&#8230;even to the extent of predicting the &#034;unpredictable.&#034;</p>
<p>Evolutionists have no way (using materialistic means) of proving where matter came from let alone the laws that make matter what it is after/before it became matter.  Evolutionists can hypothesize about the present configuration of the local universe and what they consider &#034;quantum&#034; leaps about the distant.  Evolutionists are loathe to use all of the tools at their disposal, though, for to do so would be materialistically illogical.  As far as an evolutionist is concerned, nothing exists but matter and only matter can come from matter.</p>
<p>I assume that evolutionists are continuing in their vain attempt(s) to story-tell their way out of the consequences of the 2nd law of thermodynamics&#8230;just as you did with your suggestion that crystals explained it away.  </p>
<p>Perhaps you understand theology; perhaps the Creator doesn&#39;t know you.  Which is more important?</p>
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		<title>By: Drew Tatusko</title>
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		<dc:creator>Drew Tatusko</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:07:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>einstein was wrong, dead wrong about particle physics. his formulae to harmonize relativity with complementarity don&#039;t work. bohr&#039;s do as further tests concluded over the decades since. it&#039;s not faith in a worldview that makes nuclear fission work. it&#039;s mathematical proof. the irrationality here is that you can predict the unpredictable. but maybe you should talk about this with an evolutionary biologist and a particle physicist who can far more adequately demonstrate these basic principles and even more.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;i think evolutionists know what problems they are working with including miller. to tell him that he does not understand his science is just stupid. it&#039;s like dawkins telling me i don&#039;t understand theology. you have a pretty impressive straw-man a-brewing here.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>einstein was wrong, dead wrong about particle physics. his formulae to harmonize relativity with complementarity don&#39;t work. bohr&#39;s do as further tests concluded over the decades since. it&#39;s not faith in a worldview that makes nuclear fission work. it&#39;s mathematical proof. the irrationality here is that you can predict the unpredictable. but maybe you should talk about this with an evolutionary biologist and a particle physicist who can far more adequately demonstrate these basic principles and even more.</p>
<p>i think evolutionists know what problems they are working with including miller. to tell him that he does not understand his science is just stupid. it&#39;s like dawkins telling me i don&#39;t understand theology. you have a pretty impressive straw-man a-brewing here.</p>
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		<title>By: donald_hebfour</title>
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		<dc:creator>donald_hebfour</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The Second Law of Thermodynamics could well be stated as follows: &quot;In any ordered system, open or closed, there exists a tendency for&lt;br&gt;that system to decay to a state of disorder, which tendency can only be&lt;br&gt;suspended or reversed by an external source of ordering energy directed&lt;br&gt;by an informational program and transformed through an&lt;br&gt;ingestion-storage-converter mechanism into the specific work required&lt;br&gt;to build up the complex structure of that system.&quot;&lt;br&gt;If either the information program or the converter mechanism is not available to that &quot;open&quot; system, it will not increase in order, no matter how much external energy surrounds it. The&lt;br&gt;system will proceed to decay in accordance with the Second Law of&lt;br&gt;Thermodynamics.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&quot;The point is that in a non-isolated system there exists a possibility&lt;br&gt;for formation of ordered, low-entropy structures at sufficiently low&lt;br&gt;temperatures. This ordering principle is responsible for the appearance&lt;br&gt;of ordered structures such as crystals as well as for the phenomena of&lt;br&gt;phase transitions. Unfortunately this principle cannot explain the&lt;br&gt;formation of biological structures. The probability that at ordinary&lt;br&gt;temperatures a macroscopic number of molecules is assembled to give&lt;br&gt;rise to the highly-ordered structures and to the coordinated functions&lt;br&gt;characterizing living organisms is vanishingly small. The idea of&lt;br&gt;spontaneous genesis of life in its present form is therefore highly&lt;br&gt;improbable, even on the scale of the billions of years during which&lt;br&gt;prebiotic evolution occurred.&quot; Ilya Prigogine, Gregoire Nicolis &amp; Agnes Babloyants, &quot;Thermodynamics of Evolution,&quot; Physics Today, (Vol. 25, November 1972) p. 23. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I doubt that there are &quot;countless mathematical proofs&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Without quibbling:  Bohr was not &quot;right&quot; and Einstein &quot;wrong&quot; as those words have moral meaning and in evolution there is no morality.  One might say that Bohr observed what he observed and noted it mathematically; Einstein observed what he observed and noted it mathematically.  They left their mathematics up to others to prove/disprove and neither of their mathematics have been adequately tried to conclude any one way or another...except by faith in a worldview.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Whether Bohr was a &quot;christian&quot; or not is irrelevant.  You are mistaken to conclude that his argument was in favor of &quot;irrational and disordered basis (sic) for the order we perceive.&quot;  Your next statement, if correct, proves predictability and therefore NOT disorderly and/or chaotic.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Whether rank-and-file evolutionists know it or not, this problem they have with entropy is thus &quot;one of the most fundamental unsolved problems in biology.&quot; It&lt;br&gt;is more than a problem, in fact, it is a devastating denial of the&lt;br&gt;evolution model itself. It will continue to be so until evolutionists&lt;br&gt;can demonstrate that the vast imagined evolutionary continuum in space&lt;br&gt;and time has both a program to guide it and an energy converter to&lt;br&gt;empower it. Otherwise, the Second Law precludes it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Second Law of Thermodynamics could well be stated as follows: &#034;In any ordered system, open or closed, there exists a tendency for<br />that system to decay to a state of disorder, which tendency can only be<br />suspended or reversed by an external source of ordering energy directed<br />by an informational program and transformed through an<br />ingestion-storage-converter mechanism into the specific work required<br />to build up the complex structure of that system.&#034;<br />If either the information program or the converter mechanism is not available to that &#034;open&#034; system, it will not increase in order, no matter how much external energy surrounds it. The<br />system will proceed to decay in accordance with the Second Law of<br />Thermodynamics.</p>
<p>&#034;The point is that in a non-isolated system there exists a possibility<br />for formation of ordered, low-entropy structures at sufficiently low<br />temperatures. This ordering principle is responsible for the appearance<br />of ordered structures such as crystals as well as for the phenomena of<br />phase transitions. Unfortunately this principle cannot explain the<br />formation of biological structures. The probability that at ordinary<br />temperatures a macroscopic number of molecules is assembled to give<br />rise to the highly-ordered structures and to the coordinated functions<br />characterizing living organisms is vanishingly small. The idea of<br />spontaneous genesis of life in its present form is therefore highly<br />improbable, even on the scale of the billions of years during which<br />prebiotic evolution occurred.&#034; Ilya Prigogine, Gregoire Nicolis &#038; Agnes Babloyants, &#034;Thermodynamics of Evolution,&#034; Physics Today, (Vol. 25, November 1972) p. 23. </p>
<p>I doubt that there are &#034;countless mathematical proofs&#034;</p>
<p>Without quibbling:  Bohr was not &#034;right&#034; and Einstein &#034;wrong&#034; as those words have moral meaning and in evolution there is no morality.  One might say that Bohr observed what he observed and noted it mathematically; Einstein observed what he observed and noted it mathematically.  They left their mathematics up to others to prove/disprove and neither of their mathematics have been adequately tried to conclude any one way or another&#8230;except by faith in a worldview.</p>
<p>Whether Bohr was a &#034;christian&#034; or not is irrelevant.  You are mistaken to conclude that his argument was in favor of &#034;irrational and disordered basis (sic) for the order we perceive.&#034;  Your next statement, if correct, proves predictability and therefore NOT disorderly and/or chaotic.</p>
<p>Whether rank-and-file evolutionists know it or not, this problem they have with entropy is thus &#034;one of the most fundamental unsolved problems in biology.&#034; It<br />is more than a problem, in fact, it is a devastating denial of the<br />evolution model itself. It will continue to be so until evolutionists<br />can demonstrate that the vast imagined evolutionary continuum in space<br />and time has both a program to guide it and an energy converter to<br />empower it. Otherwise, the Second Law precludes it.</p>
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		<title>By: Drew Tatusko</title>
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		<dc:creator>Drew Tatusko</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>there are countless mathematical proof that demonstrate this phenomenon from the formation of crystals to the quantum mechanics on which that hard drive operates in your computer. bohr was right and einstein was wrong. einstein argued that order must come from order. bohr, a christian by the way, argued that quantum mechanics predicts a far more irrational and disordered basis for the order we perceive. what&#039;s fantastic is that even that disordered and chaotic sub-atomic &quot;world&quot; is still mathematically predictable. pretty much axiomatic in physics for the past 50 or so years.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>there are countless mathematical proof that demonstrate this phenomenon from the formation of crystals to the quantum mechanics on which that hard drive operates in your computer. bohr was right and einstein was wrong. einstein argued that order must come from order. bohr, a christian by the way, argued that quantum mechanics predicts a far more irrational and disordered basis for the order we perceive. what&#39;s fantastic is that even that disordered and chaotic sub-atomic &#034;world&#034; is still mathematically predictable. pretty much axiomatic in physics for the past 50 or so years.</p>
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		<title>By: donald_hebfour</title>
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		<dc:creator>donald_hebfour</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 02:53:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Drew,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;What is science&#039;s proof that order and complexity arose out of chaos?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;d.</description>
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<p>What is science&#39;s proof that order and complexity arose out of chaos?</p>
<p>d.</p>
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