Posted on 02/14/2009 10:55:11 AM PST by chuck_the_tv_out
The person who wrote this was a complete moron.
Oh yes it did. General relativity works in certain situations where Newtonian gravity doesn't (although it's perfectly adequate for everyday use).
Did I say Newtonian gravity?
Scientic FACTS ARE wrong.
Just the grammar check. What happened to good journalism?
Can you provide a URL or other reference to the source of that statistic?
This is an allusion to entropy, which increases in the universe as a whole, or in a closed system. Planet Earth is an open system which is supplied with huge amounts of energy from outside (the sun), something which both creationists and global warming nuts fail to consider.
General relativity also fails at the quantum scale. There is no theory of gravity that works at all scales.
Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution is Wrong, False and Impossible
the is is right..
If you didn’t personally, the second sentence quoted in your post did, so the discussion was presumably about Newtonian gravity at that point. Besides, I wouldn’t be completely surprised if General Relativity is superceded at some point in the future.
energy does not equal entropy. energy does not provide information. that’s something you learn in the first year of elementary science
Nothing in the article displays evidence of an interest in even basic science, facts, or proof.
The biggest problem for the bible-based creationist effort is that it hinges on defending a very narrowly defined statement: God created all of the universe, fully formed as we know it now, in six earth days. It was also done exactly as the King James (or whatever) version of the bible states it... in English.
Science is not a competing religion (there are no shrines to the ‘time god’), it’s a way of discovering more about the world around us. Shouting down science is not a method of proving a point, it’s a way of declaring that you’re not interested in learning more. If creation in fact happened exactly as described by the bible, scientists will eventually uncover evidence to unambiguously support that position. If your faith isn’t strong enough to wait, it isn’t the fault of the evil time god.
The New Testament says that scripture is useful for instruction, reproof, etc., not that it is a science text or even a history book (although it is full of verifiable historical material).
It's the Islamofascists who think God handed down a full text of truths. They call it the Koran. Since none of us are Moslems, we need not adopt such a belief.
Um, maybe that’s why they call it a theory instead of a law.
Thanks for making Christians everywhere look like mouth-breathing morons. Atheist love the Young Earth Creationists.
Congress is a special case ~ they prove that you can crossbreed a goat and fencepost.
I didn’t equate energy with entropy. I said that the 2nd law applies only to closed systems, which the earth is not. Closed means no imported energy or matter. Entropy was defined in thermodynamics well before concepts relating it to information were introduced.
“It was also done exactly as the King James (or whatever) version of the bible states it... in English.”
Who says that? Where’s that from?
“If creation in fact happened exactly as described by the bible, scientists will eventually uncover evidence to unambiguously support that position. If your faith isn’t strong enough to wait, it isn’t the fault of the evil time god.”
Odd stuff. “If your faith is strong enought to wait”?? For science to catch up with fact? That’s a very odd way of thinking. Science is catching up, slowly. For centuries mockers mocked the idea that the flood “came up from the great deep”, believing the Earth to be a solid mass. Now in 2007 they find an arctic ocean’s worthy of water in the mantle, and evidence of a global catastrophic flood 4400 years ago is mounting up.
Your statement is baffling. You expect people to aquiesce to whatever “consensus science” says, whether it’s right or wrong?
I read what hellbender wrote, and your response has no relationship to it.
Your first sentence was bizarre. Your second sentence is flat-out wrong: energy does provide information. Ever seen that big yellow ball in the sky? We know what it looks like. How do we know what it looks like? Because of information sent in the form of energy like photons and magnetic field strength, to name a few.
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