Posted on 06/15/2017 12:50:19 PM PDT by Kaslin
Zero times anything is zero. The odds of life just happening by chance are zero.
This universe just springing into being by chance is impossible. It takes a leap of blind faith to believe in evolution, unguided or guided. Of course, there are tiny changes within kinds. It seems to me usually when the evolutionists make their case, they point to these tiny changes.
The analogies to the improbability of evolution by a random process are endless.
A hurricane blows through a junkyard and assembles a fully functioning 747 jet.
Scrabble pieces are randomly spilled out on the board, and they spell out the Declaration of Independence word for word. (Source: Dr. Stephen Meyer, author of Darwin’s Doubt).
A monkey sits at a typewriter and types thousands of pages. He types out word for word, with no mistakes, the entire works of Shakespeare.
The odds against our universe, of the earth, of the creation, to have just come into being with no intelligent design behind the grand scheme are greater than all of these impossible scenarios.
Forget the works of Shakespeare. What are the odds of a monkey randomly typing away simply spelling the 9-letter word “evolution” by chance? That doesn’t sound too hard, does it?
Dr. Scott M. Huse, B.S., M.S., M.R.E., Th.D., Ph.D., who holds graduate degrees in computer science, geology, and theology, wrote a book about creation/evolution back in the early 1980s, The Collapse of Evolution. Huse has done extensive study on these questions of random probability. I had the privilege of interviewing him about it for Dr. D. James Kennedy’s television special, “The Case for Creation” (1988). It was a type of Scopes Trial in reverse---filmed on location in Tennessee, in the very courtroom where the 1925 monkey trial took place.
Later, Huse created a computer program to see what are the odds of a monkey typing the word “evolution”? He notes that the odds are 1 in 5.4 trillion, which statistically is the same thing as zero. Any casino that offered such horrible odds would lose customers quickly, because no one would ever win. Forgive my bluntness, but the suckers have to win something before they start losing big.
Here’s what Scott told me in an email: “The typical personal computer keyboard has 104 keys, most of which are not letters from the alphabet. However, if we ignore that fact and say the monkey can only hit keys that are letters of the alphabet, he has a one in twenty-six chance of hitting the correct letter each time.
“Of course, he has to hit them in the correct sequence as well: E then V then O, etc. Twenty-six to the power of nine (the number of letters in the word “evolution”) equals 5,429,503,678,976.
“So, the odds of him accidentally typing just the 9-letter word ‘evolution’ are about 1 in about 5.4 trillion …From a purely mathematical standpoint, the bewildering complexity of even the most basic organic molecules [which are much more complicated than a nine-letter word] completely rules out the possibility of life originating by mere chance.”
Take just one aspect of life---amino acids and protein cells. Dr. Stephen Meyer earned his Ph.D. in the philosophy of science at Cambridge University. In his New York Times bestselling book, Darwin’s Doubt (2013), Meyer points out that “the probability of attaining a correct sequence [of amino acids to build a protein molecule] by random search would roughly equal the probability of a blind spaceman finding a single marked atom by chance among all the atoms in the Milky Way galaxy---on its face clearly not a likely outcome.” (p. 183)
And this is just one aspect of life, the most basic building-block. In Meyer’s book, he cites the work of engineer-turned-molecular-biologist, Dr. Douglas Axe, who has since written the book, Undeniable: How Biology Confirms Our Intuition That Life Is Designed (2016).
In the interview I did with Scott Huse long ago, he noted, “The probability of life originating through mere random processes, as evolutionists contend, really honestly, is about zero…. If you consider probability statistics, it exposes the naiveté and the foolishness, really, of the evolutionary viewpoint.”
Dr. Charles Thaxton was another guest on that classic television special from 1988. He is a scientist who notes that life is so complex, the chances of it arising by mere chance is virtually impossible. Thaxton, now with the Discovery Institute, has a Ph.D. in physical chemistry, and a post-doctorate degree in molecular biology and a Harvard post-doctorate in the history and philosophy of science.
Thaxton notes, “I’d say in my years of study, the amazing thing is the utter complexity of living things….Most scientists would readily grant that however life happened, it did not happen by chance.”
The whole creation points to the Creator. Huse sums up the whole point: “Simply put, a watch has a watchmaker and we have a Creator, the Lord Jesus Christ.”
Is that the number of mile light travels in a year?
Tiny times several billion tries comes up a real number.
God works in mysterious ways.
Uhuh. You're not really much different from....
Here is our progressive,
"spiritual", tolerant Christian opinion
- now you shut up and agree to disagree...
you nazisDarwinists
[IDIOTS REACT TO MAN WITH SIGN]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL0tRHvBlQQ
The resulting cultural psychosis, where youth have been castrated of Truth, Logic, Reason, and Science - is pretty much the same:
psy·cho·sissīˈkōsəs/noun
"According to my opinion, and the opinions of many defectors of my caliber, only about 15% of time, money, and manpower is spent on espionage as such. The other 85% is a slow process which we call either ideological subversion, active measures, or psychological warfare.What it basically means is: to change the perception of reality of every American that despite of the abundance of information no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their families, their community, and their country.It's a great brainwashing process which goes very slow and is divided into four basic stages.The first stage being "demoralization". It takes from 15 to 20 years to demoralize a nation.Why that many years? Because this is the minimum number of years required to educate one generation of students in the country of your enemy exposed to the ideology of [their] enemy. In other words, Marxism-Leninism ideology is being pumped into the soft heads of at least 3 generation of American students without being challenged or counterbalanced by the basic values of Americanism; American patriotism.Most of the activity of the department [KGB] was to compile huge amount / volume of information, on individuals who were instrumental in creating public opinion. Publisher, editors, journalists, uh actors, educationalists, professors of political science. Members of parliament, representatives of business circles. "--KGB Defector Yuri Bezmenov--Soviet Subversion of the Free Press (Ideological subversion, Destabilization, CRISIS - and the KGB)
Meanwhile, in reality land....
[I Took a Gender Studies Course So You Don’t Have To]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlGSG0q-Fh4
ERRORS CEASING TO BE DANGEROUS WHEN IT IS PERMITTED FREELY TO CONTRADICT THEM!
How do you differentiate your Created “6000 Year” Dogma from the other Created Things that were worshiped in Romans Chapter 1?
You can’t. They are the same.
don’t feed the troll- He’s proven many times now he’s here just to berate anyone that doesn’t buy into the lie of evolution- makes him feel better about himself i guess to constantly insult those he’s attacking- sadly it seems to be a need he thrives on- several of us have given him ample opportunity to be civil- He chooses however to act in a childish manner-
>>berate anyone that doesn’t buy into the lie of evolution-
It’s not about evolution super genius - it’s about your disingenuous attempt to hijack the vocabulary involved like a NewSpeaking Cultural Marxist.
That’s why your ilk has increasingly lost credibility on both the Right and Left.
Define all you want; but the PRACTICE on the ground is much different.
I'll accept, "I don't know."
It possibly could be; but I know for a FACT that it is the EXACT number of angels that can dance on the head of a pin.
It's also found in the bible; with careful study of course!
>>the EXACT number of angels that can dance on the head of a pin.
13.5 billion. One gets added every year. Kinda like birthday candles.
>>I merely posit that Earth is God’s reaction chamber.
The process of photosynthesis complexifys, yet the 2ND law is not violated; and there is a net increase in entropy.
Where is entropy increased in the context of the E that drives photosynthesis on Earth?
The answer can be derived from observed physical processes.
>>You’re finally seeing that?
How well do you think your Newskpeaking YED cleverness would stand up in court as a defense against LGBTQXYWHATEVER activist social engineers who are on a cultural trajectory towards banning biology?
I’ll answer that for you, Bob - you’d get laughed out of court just like your predecessors who lost the Scopes monkey trial.
Furthermore, YED dogma is not primary doctrine for discerning membership in the body of Christ - and YOU are not the decider in that case either, little man.
Here we see Darwin speculating on potential consequences of his new theory.
His speculations are somewhat interesting, but utterly irrelevant.
You disagree?
Your term "intelligent design" could mean just about anything, including space aliens from the planet Kusbane.
I think words that unmistakably apply only to God would have a much different character, though am not myself satisfied as to what those words should be...
"Intelligent design" is way too mundane for the Creator of the Universe, imho.
You disagree?
You're being way too clever for me.
I don't have time or patience for riddles.
So make your point, or forget it.
And that is only one, albeit a particularly glaring example, of a huge number of scientific problems with "young earth".
So the basic issue is, can we treat both science and the Bible with all due respect and without doing harm to either?
I think we can, but it takes some careful analysis & understanding.
>>So make your point, or forget it.
The point is you don’t understand entropy and how the 2nd law of thermodynamics isn’t broken by the “complexifying” of everyday photosynthesis.
It’s not a riddle - it’s a simple concept that any science student should be able to articulate.
[[Your term “intelligent design” could mean just about anything,]]
Not when referring to the creator it doesn’t mean just about anything- it means exactly what it means- God’s omniscient intelligence- which far surpasses ours- there’s really no need to make an issue out of the term- when one speaks of God’s intelligent design, we all understand that His omniscient intelligence is far superior to ours- it knows all- we know only in part- it does no disservice to God to claim He is the end all be all of intelligent Designers- not sure why this is even an issue?
[[And that is only one, albeit a particularly glaring example, of a huge number of scientific problems with “young earth”.]]
Number one it’s not really a problem IF you study the issue- there are answers to it- secondly, you discount the actual im;possibilities associated with macroevolution (ie: chemical impossibilities, biological, thermodynamic, mathematical- any one of which puts a nail in the coffin for hte idea of macroevolution possibility- but taken all together- ensure that it’s not even remotely possible- yet you claim that the light year issue undoes young earth when there are answers to it? Study it some- you’ll find what you are looking for IF you look objectively-
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