home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!math.fu-berlin.de!uni-paderborn.de!urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de!gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!netnews.upenn.edu!pender.ee.upenn.edu!rowe
- From: rowe@pender.ee.upenn.edu (Mickey Rowe)
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Re: Evolution implied by the Bible
- Message-ID: <106878@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 20:43:19 GMT
- References: <72610d3d@ofa123.fidonet.org> <1993Jan27.112130.1@woods.ulowell.edu>
- Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu
- Organization: University of Pennsylvania
- Lines: 50
- Nntp-Posting-Host: pender.ee.upenn.edu
-
- In article <1993Jan27.112130.1@woods.ulowell.edu>
- cotera@woods.ulowell.edu tries to amaze us yet again:
-
- >In article <72610d3d@ofa123.fidonet.org>,
- Dr.Pepper@f241.n103.z1.fidonet.org writes:
-
- >> > However here is the Theory of Creationism in a nutshell: God
- >> > created the universe.
- >>
- >> Here is my rebuttle: No evidence.
- >>
- >
- >Do you see the irony of this statement? Every time a Creationist brings up the
- >gaps in the fossil record, Evolutionists say "Lack of evidence does not
- >contradict evolution." Now you're using the same argument against my
- >theory.
-
- Ray, you really are a piece of work, you know. The argument from the
- gaps attempts to claim that since some evidence is missing, we can
- ignore the evidence that exists. Dr. Pepper is claiming that for your
- view there is no evidence whatsoever. Do you see the difference now?
-
- >... The second law says that the amount of entropy in the universe is
- >decreasing. This means that the amount of energy that can be put to
- >useful work is decreasing. From this we get the idea of the heat death
- >of the universe. Now if we go backwards in time we see that the
- >entropy of the universe is decreasing. Eventually we get to a point
- >where there is no entropy. So before that point either the laws of
- >physics no longer hold (no evidence of this), or God created the
- >universe.
-
- Ray did you actually read this before you sent it out? Are you having
- that contest with Lionel as I suggested through e-mail? Let's see, I
- have a monotonically decreasing function Y(t). Therefore at some
- point t0, in the past Y(t0) = 0 is your conclusion? Let me graph a
- decreasing function of time for you, Ray:
-
- Y |\
- | \
- | \
- | \
- |_________
-
- Do you see it crossing through zero to the left or to the right? (I'm
- not going to take on the stupid physics involved--I don't want to
- spoil every one else's fun...)
-
- >--Ray Cote
-
- Mickey Rowe (rowe@pender.ee.upenn.edu)
-