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  1. Barbarian

    [__ Science __ ] Evolution Is a Scientific Law?

    It's intrinsic in the methodology of science. It can only consider measurable things in the natural universe. But it's methodological, not philosophical. Science doesn't deny the supernatural; it just can't consider it. There is a philosophy of science, but science is not a...
  2. Barbarian

    [__ Science __ ] Evolution Is a Scientific Law?

    Good point. In fact, the geologic column is inconsistent with a single flood event. We find, in the column, deserts and forests that would have had to have formed in the middle of the Flood. Even worse... At this point in time, the largest challenge from the stratomorphic intermediate...
  3. Barbarian

    [__ Science __ ] Evolution Is a Scientific Law?

    I think "contingency" has a somewhat different meaning than the common notion of "chance." Contingency, as I see it, means something not caused by anything. Rolling dice does not involve contingency; the outcome of the roll is due to understandable physical processes. But it certainly...
  4. Barbarian

    [__ Science __ ] Evolution Is a Scientific Law?

    By "evolution", do you mean...? 1. changing allele frequencies in a population over time (scientific definition) 2. evolution that produced a new "kind" (depending on what you think a kind is) 3. Common descent of living things on Earth. Strictly speaking, the first is what evolution is. The...
  5. Barbarian

    [__ Science __ ] Evolution Is a Scientific Law?

    It's because there is nothing in nature that shows a directed goal, other than fitness. Darwin's discovery was that evolution proceeds with a tendency to increase fitness in a population. Science can't consider the supernatural. But scientists can. At least some of us. And those of...
  6. Barbarian

    [__ Science __ ] Evolution Is a Scientific Law?

    No, that excuse won't work. You've confused analogy with homology. You've confused "looks like" (say wings on insects and birds) with "derived from" as in the case of structures modified to new uses in dinosaurs. When the evidence is first found, it always looks rough. Take the transition...
  7. Barbarian

    [__ Science __ ] Evolution Is a Scientific Law?

    And to you, too.
  8. Barbarian

    [__ Science __ ] Evolution Is a Scientific Law?

    Foundation of Genetic Algorithms Genetic algorithms are based on an analogy with the genetic structure and behavior of chromosomes of the population. Following is the foundation of GAs based on this analogy – Individuals in the population compete for resources and mate Those individuals who...
  9. Barbarian

    [__ Science __ ] Evolution Is a Scientific Law?

    You're assuming that God's power is limited to necessity, but He can't use contingency. But He is omnipotent. That would require that God be limited in His ability. And I don't think that's the case. The effect of divine providence is not only that things should happen somehow, but that...
  10. Barbarian

    [__ Science __ ] Evolution Is a Scientific Law?

    God says animals were formed from the earth. And science has found that the evidence does indicate that the Earth did indeed produce life that way. Man's body, like that of other animals was from the Earth. It's in our minds and spirits that we are in God's image. Jesus says that...
  11. Barbarian

    [__ Science __ ] Evolution Is a Scientific Law?

    They aren't happy with the way God created things. Yep. The issue is, YE creationists don't approve of the way He did it. Nowhere in scripture is there any mention of a "kind barrier." That's another YE insertion. He created you, too. Like all other living things, He used natural...
  12. Barbarian

    [__ Science __ ] Evolution Is a Scientific Law?

    Just accept allegories and parables as they are. God isn't lying if He uses allegory. Jesus isn't lying if He used parables. God didn't talk about evolution or DNA or protons. You're trying to force Him to be science and technology. The Bible is about God and man and our...
  13. Barbarian

    [__ Science __ ] Evolution Is a Scientific Law?

    It's true that a random process, along with a non-random process, forms a non-random process. Stephen Gould suggested that if we could reset initial conditions, evolution would again proceed, but the outcome would be entirely different. St. Thomas Aquinas and Michael Denton (coming from...
  14. Barbarian

    [__ Science __ ] Evolution Is a Scientific Law?

    Yes. Even engineers now realize that random variation plus natural selection is a more efficient way to solve very complex problems than design can be. They now copy God's evolutionary processes because of that. Everything in creation, even contingency, advances His purposes. He knows...
  15. Barbarian

    [__ Science __ ] Evolution Is a Scientific Law?

    He didn't say that in any words at all. That's another YE insertion to make scripture fit their own desires. Yep. While only maniraptoan dinosaurs (including birds) have syrinxes and could chirp, other dinosaurs have structures from which the syrinx evolved. No evidence that it didn't...
  16. Barbarian

    [__ Science __ ] Evolution Is a Scientific Law?

    God tells Adam that he will die the day he eats from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil God told them? Literally? Genesis 2:16 And he commanded him, saying: Of every tree of paradise thou shalt eat: 17 But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat. For in what...
  17. Barbarian

    [__ Science __ ] Evolution Is a Scientific Law?

    Darwin had no idea about genetics. Only after Mendel's work, did it become clear how random variation happens. In fact, it cleared up a major problem for Darwin's theory. If heredity was in blood, as was assumed, it seemed impossible for a new trait to become established. When...
  18. Barbarian

    [__ Science __ ] Evolution Is a Scientific Law?

    Indeed, God tells Adam that he will die the day he eats from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Adam does eat from that tree, but he lives on physically for many years thereafter. If God is truthful, then the death that He spoke of is not a physical death. Adam brought a...
  19. Barbarian

    [__ Science __ ] Evolution Is a Scientific Law?

    Stone tools, for example. Chickens as opposed to jungle fowl. Stuff like that. How so? Darwin's great discovery is that it isn't random. Natural selection is the antithesis of randomness. And the New Synthesis did not overturn that. Nor have more recent refinements of evolutionary...
  20. Barbarian

    [__ Science __ ] Evolution Is a Scientific Law?

    I think you're a bit confused about "origins." For example, the evolution of chickens, dogs, and horses reflect human involvement. We can see that in fossils. The reason few scientists accept YE creationist doctrine is because we find no evidence of conscious action in nature, other...
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