It has. And who cares how old I am? If I was 76, and I spoke the truth, should that make a difference in your answer that if I was 29? My age doesn't affect the truth. If you want to know my age, answer me: How can an explosion make anything? Were you there at the dawn of the universe? Did you see anything disproving creation? And besides, what explosion do you know happened that created order, and not disorder where is happened?
Why creationists will never accept the theory of evolution
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Jun 20, 2019
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#25
amrugg wrote:
WHY creationists will never accept evolution is because it is dumb. Use common sense: An explosion makes something good, beautiful, better? People use bombs to hit enemy towns and destroy them, do the people that have been bombed thank them? When you try to settle on an island, do you drop bombs on the island? If your Christmas lights get tangled, to you roll dice to decide which wire to untangle them? How much less for something bigger?
So you're saying that you're 29? O/k.
First, there's nothing 'dumb' about the theory of evolution & some of the most brilliant minds in the field of Biology would explain it to you if you had a mind sufficiently open to listen! Probably not a good idea to throw words like 'dumb' around when you are so poorly informed.
But what 'explosion' are you referring to? No advocate of Evolution has ever claimed it resulted from an explosion of any kind.
Jun 20, 2019
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#26
amrugg wrote:
Confounded?
By you? Hardly!
But if I take time to give a thoughtful reply, with links to sources, don't be surprised. You might try doing the same 
Jun 20, 2019
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#28
The Big Bang was a period at the start of the detectible history of our Universe which is unique and for which the term "explosion" is woefully inadequate.
Every observation made (including the ones made by your eyes) are indirect. You detect photons that were emitted in another place at an earlier time and piece together what this information means subconsciously in your brain.
Do you think stars exist? Do you know what they are? Do you think scientists infer correctly what they are?
Jun 20, 2019
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#29
amrugg wrote:
The big bang is an explosion, and were your sources there?
I thought you probably meant the Big Bang but you didn't make it at all clear..
"WHY creationists will never accept evolution is because it is dumb. Use common sense: An explosion makes something good, beautiful, better?" - you seemed to run the two together?
But the Big Bang wasn't an explosion in any sense that we normally use the word. All that we see today didn't 'explode' from a single point, rather space expanded very rapidly. The galaxies aren't moving away from each other because they were hurled outwards by a momentous explosion, the space they occupy is moving because the Universe is expanding.
I know that's a little difficult to grasp.
And the violence of the early Universe had long subsided by the time the first single-celled creature appeared on Earth, so there isn't a direct link between the BB & evolution.
Jun 20, 2019
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#30
amrugg wrote:
WHY creationists will never accept evolution is because it is dumb. Use common sense: An explosion makes something good, beautiful, better?
I have to observe that this post is, frankly, dumb. You must be capable of doing better (at least I would hope so).
Thinking that the origin of the Universe 13.8 billion years ago is within the scope of the theory of evolution (which is about the observed evolution of life on Earth over 4 billion years or so requires a complete lack of understanding of the most basic notions of what scientific knowledge is.
Do you think some glib feeling about the Big Bang is a good argument against the understanding that micro-organisms evolve resistance to antibiotics? This understanding happens to be part of the science of evolution: it just happens to be one of several parts that is observable in a human lifetime.
Jun 20, 2019
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#31
It is something that heart surgeons are unable to figure out. It is something that plumbers are unable to figure out. It is something that structural engineers are unable to figure out.
Cosmologists have a better chance, since they actually study the relevant subject (I presume a creationist is unable to discern that the categories of people above are not the ones to ask about the Big Bang, so have I got that point across?)
This is an example of wilful foolishness by creationists. You are (probably) not incapable of understanding that cosmology is biology, but you do give this impression.
Let's see if any progress has been made. Can you answer this question: is cosmology a part of the biological sciences?
Jun 20, 2019
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#32
sciencechimp2004 wrote:
Obviously it is, according to you.
Projecting your mistake on the person who is trying to fix it is inappropriate and offensive. I have been trying to educate the person who asked "So is the cause of the Big Bang something that evolutionists are still unable to figure out?"
After doing a bit of research, there isn't much that would make me think cosmology is a biological science. Biology is the study of life, and there is little evidence of life apart from the earth. Cosmology would be more of a physical science.
Now you should be able to see your question was bizarre and pointless, as it has been every time a misguided creationist has asked it.
stephen_33 wrote:
amrugg wrote:
WHY creationists will never accept evolution is because it is dumb. Use common sense: An explosion makes something good, beautiful, better? People use bombs to hit enemy towns and destroy them, do the people that have been bombed thank them? When you try to settle on an island, do you drop bombs on the island? If your Christmas lights get tangled, to you roll dice to decide which wire to untangle them? How much less for something bigger?
How old are you & has your home-schooling taught you anything other than how to recite the Old Testament?
Being homeschooled has nothing to do with anything. People used to be homeschooled a long time ago, and people still are. We still function in society.
amrugg wrote:
It has. And who cares how old I am? If I was 76, and I spoke the truth, should that make a difference in your answer that if I was 29? My age doesn't affect the truth. If you want to know my age, answer me: How can an explosion make anything? Were you there at the dawn of the universe? Did you see anything disproving creation? And besides, what explosion do you know happened that created order, and not disorder where is happened?
Actually, there was probably a big bang at the start of the universe. God made it happen.
Jun 20, 2019
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#35
JayHunterBrickwood wrote:
Being homeschooled has nothing to do with anything. People used to be homeschooled a long time ago, and people still are. We still function in society.
Personal experience of many home-schooled YEC's here has given me a very jaundiced opinion of it, that's all. I've been shocked at just how ignorant of scientific matters some home-schooled people are.
I've no doubt that when it's done properly by conscientious parents, it can produce fine results.
Yeah, if people just let their kids alone and don't teach them hardly anything, homeschooling can be bad. But in most cases I know, AKA the 25+ Christian homeschoolers in the CHT are properly homeschooled.
Well, the 25+ active members in the CHT.
Jun 20, 2019
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#38
But are we all clear now that the Universe did not come into existence as the result of an explosion? It was space itself that expanded very rapidly during the period of Universal Inflation & then continued to do so but more slowly ever since.
Nothing exploded!
Absolutely not.
WHY creationists will never accept evolution is because it is dumb. Use common sense: An explosion makes something good, beautiful, better? People use bombs to hit enemy towns and destroy them, do the people that have been bombed thank them? When you try to settle on an island, do you drop bombs on the island? If your Christmas lights get tangled, to you roll dice to decide which wire to untangle them? How much less for something bigger?
How old are you & has your home-schooling taught you anything other than how to recite the Old Testament?