The Daily Creationism the third
Well I stumbled across my old friend, TheDailyCreationism. On a new website, again claiming to do daily updates but failing to do regular posts. Quite disappointing I have to say as I'd love to read a creationist blog that is well, up to date with fresh arguments not those stale things from a hundred years ago.
Anyway one of the posts on this blog featured Mr Kent Hovind's $250,000 offer. He presents it like James Randi presents the $1 million paranormal challenge, prove evolution and you get $250,000. Simple right?
Wrong. Look how this whack job defines evolution.
1) Brought time, space, and matter into existence from nothing.
2) Organized that matter into the galaxies, stars, and at least nine planets around the sun. (This process is often referred to as cosmic evolution.)
3) Created the life that exists on at least one of those planets from nonliving matter (chemical evolution).
4) Caused the living creatures to be capable of and interested in reproducing themselves.
5) Caused that first life form to spontaneously diversify into different forms of living things, such as the plants and animals on the earth today (biological evolution).
So yes only the fifth one has anything to do with evolution. This is how it falls down and becomes improvable:
Prove beyond reasonable doubt that the process of evolution [...] is the only possible way the observed phenomena could have come into existence.
Hmmmmm OK, oh wait, there's more, now he redefines evolution to mean:
When I use the word evolution, [...] I am referring to the general theory of evolution which believes these five major events took place without God:
1) Time, space, and matter came into existence by themselves.
2) Planets and stars formed from space dust.
3) Matter created life by itself.
4) Early life-forms learned to reproduce themselves.
5) Major changes occurred between these diverse life forms (i.e., fish changed to amphibians, amphibians changed to reptiles, and reptiles changed to birds or mammals).
So in effect, he is requiring you to disprove the existence of god. This isn’t possible, as you can’t disprove a negative. A comparable analogy would be me putting forward the following statement.
The Invisible Pink Unicorn created the universe ten minutes ago, and gave everybody false memories of events, and planted evidence of events that happened before the creation to give the impression that the universe is 13.7 billion years old. Disprove this and I will give you $250,000.
Or disprove the existence of Zeus, Apollo, and the Flying Spaghetti Monster and I'll give you $250,000.
Obviously it is not possible, Mr Kent Hovind's offer is junk. He's not asking somebody to prove evolution, he's asking somebody to disprove god.
27th July 2007 22:57:34, 436 words, 425 views
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Paul is correct. Evolution is deemed scientific fact. The only question that remains is origin of life. That generally is not stated as fact in science books but as a hypothesis.
That said, virtually all scientific-method evidence points toward evolution of some type, so I suppose the question really boils down to one of "What do you believe?". As you well know, the artifacts/evidence all point to some type of evolution, but, until we actually go back and observe the past (with me, ha ha I couldn't resist) via non-interfering time-travel (observe the past via new dimensions unbound by time or space so as not to violate the forward arrow of time. Remember the time-travel problem/paradox where the time-traveler supposedly goes back in time and slays his mother when she was a baby, thus how could he exist?) we'll just have to bear with one another's dreams.
If that's good hearing so they can hear something approaching, or communication skills so they can better co-operate within a species doesn't matter.
Prove evolution theory via:
1) Brought time, space, and matter into existence from nothing.
Simple, as time, space, and matter as we know it (our time-state-space every day reference frame) are not the only dimensions known in existence (see superstrings, string theory, and multi-dimensional universe(s)), beings/non-beings (depending upon your reference frame) created our reality from dimensions at present barely detectable to us; and thus, left at present no detectable trace of creating our universe. side note, we fittingly refer to these undetectable-at-present other-dimensional beings/non-beings unbound by our time, state, and space, as "God", "Yavew", all-seeing beings that as they are unbound by our everyday "laws" of time and space, can be "everywhere instantly".
2) Organized that matter into the galaxies, stars, and at least nine planets around the sun. (This process is often referred to as cosmic evolution.)
Again, easily solved. As the supernatural-to-us beings from other dimensions cannot be described by our theories of time, state, and space, they could easily organize our universe in little whirlpools of galaxies if they so desired. Mere child's play or a passing fancy to them, actually.
3) Created the life that exists on at least one of those planets from nonliving matter (chemical evolution).
See answers to question (1) and (2) above.
4) Caused the living creatures to be capable of and interested in reproducing themselves.
See answers to questions (1) and (2) above.
5) Caused that first life form to spontaneously diversify into different forms of living things, such as the plants and animals on the earth today (biological evolution).
See answers to questions (1) and (2) above.
Where do I collect the money?
*by the way, your explanation of whatever you were xplaining up above, only served to confuse me. please restate or xplain again.
*thnks.