Oops, my mistake, and I couldn't use the edit function to correct it. Make that "a neighbouring country", not "the same country".I wrote:
...even though I use modern English and live in the same country as you...

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Oops, my mistake, and I couldn't use the edit function to correct it. Make that "a neighbouring country", not "the same country".I wrote:
...even though I use modern English and live in the same country as you...
I hear what you are saying here, PoE. However, you must realize that all of this 'so called evidence' pointing to millions of years is manufactured through an interpretation of evidence based on a world view that excludes the possibility of a young earth. If the Bible is true, as we as Christians assert it to be, then the evolutionary paradigm excludes the truth. If I had you read one of Shakespear's sonnets and I told you to guess who the author was, but told you that you were forbidden from guessing Shakespear, would you ever arrive at the correct answer within the framework I have given you? Evolution is exactly like that. It is a framework that excludes supernaturalistic influence and origin to life on earth. When interpreting evidence under this framework, your conclusions, then, must also follow your assumptions - that everything came to be through naturalistic means. Therefore it is not surprising that evolutionary scientists have all this 'evidence'. It is also not surprising that creation scientists also have a huge body of 'evidence'. The evidences used are always the same evidences interpreted under differing frameworks. For example... a fossil is a fossil... a rock is a rock. The 'facts' don't change... only the conclusions people come to regarding the facts. And those conclusions are always based on the presuppositions and 'framework' of the person doing the interpreting.To take it literally is to believe in 24 hour days. To not take it literally is the option some of us are forced to take because of the evidence for an older earth and an older universe..
This is nonsense, PoE, and I think you know that (your statement seems to have a rhetorical tone). Clearly, most YEC advocate the plainest literal interpretation of scripture which involves a young earth, and a creative week as described in Genesis 1 and 2. I find it interesting that you are advocating that Genesis 'could mean' any number of fanciful fairy tale stories which remove credibility and authority, yet you reject a plain literal interpretation that is scientifically viable. What this would seem to indicate, at least in my mind, is that you are more willing to 'side with the world' over believing the Bible is true. You are willing to believe any number of theories that make evolution possible, yet you are unwilling to entertain the one theory that makes the Bible authoritative and true.But nobody actually believes the literal cosmology of Genesis, which would include a dome over a flat earth into which are stuck tiny stars, small sun, small moon, which then circle around over the fixed, flat earth.
Personally I try to stay out of 2nd law of thermodynamics discussions because I am repeatedly told by evolutionists that I am stupid and don't know what I am talking about. However, this is not the case. They simply are not happy with the application of the 2nd LOT to the creation/evolution discussion. What BobRyan is trying to say is that the 2lot certainly does apply to biology and chemistry - and that Asimov is also aware of this fact.I'm wondering if you read the same words I do. BobRyan is trying to prove that even an evolutionist proclaims a version of the second law of thermodynamics that rules out evolution. BobRyan is mistaken about what 2Lot says and about what Isaac Asimov says. That's all.
Indeed I cannot speak for all YEC, but I can tell you what the vast majority currently believe - which is that while a mutation may or may not be beneficial, it is always a loss of information.You can't speak for all young earth creationists. Some of them have, in fact, asserted that no good mutations are possible, and therefore it is appropriate to point out that they are possible.
There is no verbal trickery, I assure you. I am using the commonly used terms for these germs. Doctors actually call them supergerms. Also, it is very commonly seen that evolutionists use resistance to anti-biotics or resistence to pesticides... or any sort of resistance as evidence of a gain of information.That is a verbal piece of trickery. Why not call it a new shielding ability against hazardous antibiotics?
In fact I pointed this out in one of my posts. "The point" of quoting Isaac Asimov is that it "deprives" evolutionists of their classic retort to the argument about entropy which is "yes but Christians are stupid - especially when it comes to entropy".Personally I try to stay out of 2nd law of thermodynamics discussions because I am repeatedly told by evolutionists that I am stupid and don't know what I am talking about. However, this is not the case. They simply are not happy with the application of the 2nd LOT to the creation/evolution discussion. What BobRyan is trying to say is that the 2lot certainly does apply to biology and chemistry - and that Asimov is also aware of this fact.
No error in the quote itsels has ever been shown in this thread NOR has any error been shown to the effect that the Smithsonian did NOT publish the statement.UTEOTW
The problem was that Bob was quoting Asimov in a dishonest manner. His lack of objectivity is shown in that he kept making the same claims even after it was pointed out that he was making a serious error in how he was quoting Asimov
Is this more of the "Asimov is too stupid to know an example of entropy when he sees one" argument UTEOTW?UTEOTW
and in that he failed to see the difference when actual thermodynamics from a real textbook on the subject was pointed out to him to show him what entropy really is.
And "yes" the article "In the Game of Energy and Thermodynamics You can't even Break Even" WAS published by the Smithsonian and the quote IS from Asimov!! (How "horrible" - eh UTEOTW?)Another way of stating the second law then is, 'The universe is constantly getting more disorderly!' Viewed that way we can see the second law all about us. We have to work hard to straighten a room, but left to itself it becomes a mess again very quickly and very easily. Even if we never enter it, it becomes dusty and musty.
How difficult to maintain houses, and machinery, and our own bodies in perfect working order: how easy to let them deteriorate. In fact, all we have to do is nothing, and everything deteriorates, collapses, breaks down, wears out, all by itself - and that is what the second law is all about."
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[Isaac Asimov, "In the Game of Energy and Thermodynamics You Can't Even Break Even", Smithsonian Institution Journal (June 1970), p. 6 (emphasis added).]
You mean "pretend Asimov did not say it"?UTEOTW --
If he were treating the subject objectively he would have withdrawn his claim in the face of the facts and moved on to something else.
"Bad" because evolutionists have a hard time with what Asimov actually said - IN the quote AS published by the Smithsonian?UTEOTW
That he kept giving the bad quoate
What kind of word bending is that? Where do I "deny the defintion"? Please provide the quote - or simply admit you are "making more things up".UTEOTW
and that he never accepted the scientific definition entropy shows his lack of objectivity.
#1. I have repeatedly said - Asimov is an evolutionist. You have no quote from me saying that Asimov is not an evolutionist - but you seem to enjoy making it up as if pretending not to see the point - helps your case. It does not.Originally posted by UTEOTW:
Do you really expect us to believe that Asimov thinks that evolution is prevented by entropy?
I already did - and in fact - you proved yourself wrong as well when you admitted (confirmed) that the Smithsonian DID publish the exact words that I quoted.UTEOTW --
I accuse you of misquoting him. Prove me wrong.
Again - as already pointed out - your entire argument "From the void of what you do not have and do not know about the article" is not a "kind of proof that the quote is in error".UTEOTW
Give us several actual sentences from each side to show us that you have not quoted him out of context.
Wrong - it only shows that Asimov is still an evolutionist.UTEOTW --
I think that settles whether you have quoted Asimov in context once and for all.
Hardly. As noted above the statement you provide in no way negates or modifies the previous quote from Asimov regarding the fact that entropy is continually degrading biological systems.UTEOTW --
By leaving out this part, you attempted to change the meaning of what you were quoting.
Again you fail to admit that the quote is not "of me" it is "of Asimov" - HE is the one saying that biological system decay is an example of "WHAT the 2nd law is all about".UTEOTW Now, with the context added, we can all see that Asimov does not think as you were trying to make it out that he does.
You keep "claiming" that - why don't you "Show it"?Originally posted by UTEOTW:
I do not have to pretend he did not say it. First, I have the rest of the quote that completely changes the meaning and shows you to have misquoted.