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- From: sandvik@newton.apple.com (Kent Sandvik)
- Subject: Re: Evolution implied by the Bible
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 02:03:04 GMT
- References: <72610d3d@ofa123.fidonet.org> <1993Jan27.112130.1@woods.ulowell.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan27.112130.1@woods.ulowell.edu>, cotera@woods.ulowell.edu
- wrote:
- > 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.
-
- Lack of certain fossiles -- where we have enough fossiles already to
- empirically
- show what has been going on for eons -- is very much different from lack of
- any fossiles.
-
- Lack of evidence of creation is a very big problem for anyone aspiring to
- produce the theory of Creation. You need evidence, man. Or you could maybe
- re-use any of the fossiles and somehow figure out why God rippled out a lot
- of
- evidence showing that he didn't create all the animals.
-
- > Anyway, let me give you some evidence (although hardly proof): The first law of
- > thermodynamics says that energy can neither be created nor destroyed, only
- > changed from one form to another. 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.
-
- If we go to this point, we don't have *any* evidence whatsoever what
- triggered
- the big bang, unless future scientists could easily generate such events.
- Still
- we can't know if big bang was triggered by a bunch of trigger happy alien
- teenagers
- just for fun, or if it was part of a huge experiment that went wrong, or if
- it's just
- part of a bigger meta-level scientific force. You could speculate that God
- created
- the universe using a big bang, and I could speculate that a skinny alien
- created it
- as part of a home work lab experiment, and we are both dealing on the same
- level.
-
- I hope this clarifies the futility to show evidence based on something far
- beyond
- our horizon.
-
- Kent
-
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