Why is naturalism considered scientific and creationism is not ?

That is only considering the age of earth, now consider the age of the universe. Absurd is the proper term. I am headed off to the beach in Cali ,I will check in later have a good night all.
 
I know you're more intelligent than this. Really ? mocking reality. Sorry you resort to a desperate attempt at making a point. You're are using a cycle that has coded instructions as the basis of your point. It really is a poor analogy.

Yes, I'm mocking your misunderstanding of the 2nd Law.

Coded instructions mean the 2nd Law works? Or that it doesn't work?

The 2nd law has a greater affect as time passes. Somewhere between 2.7 and 3.5 billion years ago life supposedly showed up, in truth they don't know. That is a lot of time to pass in a universe where entropy never decreases but over time only increases,and you think complexity and order would increase. Sorry but that is absurd if you really believe in the 2nd law.

Face it, the universe and everything in it were created and we are seeing the effects of the 2nd law at work no matter how you fudge the numbers.

The 2nd law has a greater affect as time passes.

Can you prove it?

in a universe where entropy never decreases but over time only increases

An acorn growing into an oak tree decreases entropy in itself.

Sorry but that is absurd if you really believe in the 2nd law.

You still don't get it.
 
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How, then, is creationism—as opposed to “naturalism,” defined as “a philosophical viewpoint according to which everything arises from natural properties and causes, and supernatural or spiritual explanations are excluded or discounted”—scientific? Admittedly, the answer depends on how you define “scientific.” Too often, “science” and “naturalism” are considered one and the same, leaving creationist views out by definition. Such a definition requires an irrational reverence of naturalism. Science is defined as “the observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanation of phenomena.” Nothing requires science, in and of itself, to be naturalistic. Naturalism, like creationism, requires a series of presuppositions that are not generated by experiments. They are not extrapolated from data or derived from test results. These philosophical presuppositions are accepted before any data is ever taken. Because both naturalism and creationism are strongly influenced by presuppositions that are neither provable nor testable, and enter into the discussion well before the facts do, it is fair to say that creationism is at least as scientific as naturalism.

Is creationism scientific?

One word: Evidence.

Why are you going outside this system we call the universe, to explain phenomena that happen within the universe? You need to provide a justification for belief by any evidence of ANYTHING outside of this system. You haven't, and can not, so therefore, creationism is unscientific.
 
Yes, I'm mocking your misunderstanding of the 2nd Law.

Coded instructions mean the 2nd Law works? Or that it doesn't work?

The 2nd law has a greater affect as time passes. Somewhere between 2.7 and 3.5 billion years ago life supposedly showed up, in truth they don't know. That is a lot of time to pass in a universe where entropy never decreases but over time only increases,and you think complexity and order would increase. Sorry but that is absurd if you really believe in the 2nd law.

Face it, the universe and everything in it were created and we are seeing the effects of the 2nd law at work no matter how you fudge the numbers.

The 2nd law has a greater affect as time passes.

Can you prove it?

in a universe where entropy never decreases but over time only increases

An acorn growing into an oak tree decreases entropy in itself.

Sorry but that is absurd if you really believe in the 2nd law.

You still don't get it.

Yes every object animate or inanimate decays over time.
 
Yes, I'm mocking your misunderstanding of the 2nd Law.

Coded instructions mean the 2nd Law works? Or that it doesn't work?

The 2nd law has a greater affect as time passes. Somewhere between 2.7 and 3.5 billion years ago life supposedly showed up, in truth they don't know. That is a lot of time to pass in a universe where entropy never decreases but over time only increases,and you think complexity and order would increase. Sorry but that is absurd if you really believe in the 2nd law.

Face it, the universe and everything in it were created and we are seeing the effects of the 2nd law at work no matter how you fudge the numbers.

The 2nd law has a greater affect as time passes.

Can you prove it?

in a universe where entropy never decreases but over time only increases

An acorn growing into an oak tree decreases entropy in itself.

Sorry but that is absurd if you really believe in the 2nd law.

You still don't get it.

As time passes that oak tree will slip in to decay and die. That tree completed it's cycle.
 
How, then, is creationism—as opposed to “naturalism,” defined as “a philosophical viewpoint according to which everything arises from natural properties and causes, and supernatural or spiritual explanations are excluded or discounted”—scientific? Admittedly, the answer depends on how you define “scientific.” Too often, “science” and “naturalism” are considered one and the same, leaving creationist views out by definition. Such a definition requires an irrational reverence of naturalism. Science is defined as “the observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanation of phenomena.” Nothing requires science, in and of itself, to be naturalistic. Naturalism, like creationism, requires a series of presuppositions that are not generated by experiments. They are not extrapolated from data or derived from test results. These philosophical presuppositions are accepted before any data is ever taken. Because both naturalism and creationism are strongly influenced by presuppositions that are neither provable nor testable, and enter into the discussion well before the facts do, it is fair to say that creationism is at least as scientific as naturalism.

Is creationism scientific?

One word: Evidence.

Why are you going outside this system we call the universe, to explain phenomena that happen within the universe? You need to provide a justification for belief by any evidence of ANYTHING outside of this system. You haven't, and can not, so therefore, creationism is unscientific.

You would like to think so.
 
Amen. Why must some, if not most, divide people up into little groups? People these days are obsessed with labels. I believe to label something is to become closed minded to it

That is nature at work. Every living organism stay's with their own kind.

The response of a simpleton. The "kind" notion is nothing more than slogans taken from the various bibles and has no definition outside of a religious slogan.
 
How, then, is creationism—as opposed to “naturalism,” defined as “a philosophical viewpoint according to which everything arises from natural properties and causes, and supernatural or spiritual explanations are excluded or discounted”—scientific? Admittedly, the answer depends on how you define “scientific.” Too often, “science” and “naturalism” are considered one and the same, leaving creationist views out by definition. Such a definition requires an irrational reverence of naturalism. Science is defined as “the observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanation of phenomena.” Nothing requires science, in and of itself, to be naturalistic. Naturalism, like creationism, requires a series of presuppositions that are not generated by experiments. They are not extrapolated from data or derived from test results. These philosophical presuppositions are accepted before any data is ever taken. Because both naturalism and creationism are strongly influenced by presuppositions that are neither provable nor testable, and enter into the discussion well before the facts do, it is fair to say that creationism is at least as scientific as naturalism.

Is creationism scientific?

Hello. I just stumbled upon this thread, and haven't read it all the way through. So without getting into all of the other issues likely brought up, I would like to address the above. The answer to your first question is that there is nothing "supernatural". Either it occurs naturally or it doesn't. The term supernatural is just a made up concept given to something people don't understand or can't themselves explain. It is rooted in 19th century mysticism. Since there is nothing that is in this universe that cannot be explained by natural means, resorting to so-called supernatural agents is simply irrational and lazy thinking. Creationist views are left out of science for a very simple reason. "God did it" doesn't actually explain anything. Science is a process for understanding and explaining the world around us and within us. If "God did it" were all you needed to explain the world, we wouldn't have cars, television, cell phones, computers, and all the other technological conveniences that we enjoy. Moreover, we wouldn't understand how to breed cats, dogs, horses, and all of the animal we have created for our own purposes. And I say created because we most certainly have created them. The dog is a human bred species. It never existed in the wild. Same with modern cattle and horses and many other domestic animals. Artificial selection is the method we have used to create these animals. The only difference between artificial selection and natural selection is time, and the agent doing the selection, in this case, nature itself.

If an animal likes termites, but has a short snout and a short tongue, it is going to have to tough time getting at them to eat them. But if 1/3 of those animals have a snout with a tongue that is just long enough to reach the termites in their mound, they will be more successful in acquiring the food they like. And so over time, they will be more successful in breeding than the ones with shorter snouts, so eventually there will be more longer snouted critters eating termites. Today we call them aardvarks. No need to resort to a creator to explain their existence. No need to be lazy and say "god did it". This is how science works, how it has answered so many questions and so enriched all of our lives.

So to answer your last question - "God did it" - Doesn't explain anything, and is not scientific.
 
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The 2nd law has a greater affect as time passes. Somewhere between 2.7 and 3.5 billion years ago life supposedly showed up, in truth they don't know. That is a lot of time to pass in a universe where entropy never decreases but over time only increases,and you think complexity and order would increase. Sorry but that is absurd if you really believe in the 2nd law.

Face it, the universe and everything in it were created and we are seeing the effects of the 2nd law at work no matter how you fudge the numbers.

The 2nd law has a greater affect as time passes.

Can you prove it?

in a universe where entropy never decreases but over time only increases

An acorn growing into an oak tree decreases entropy in itself.

Sorry but that is absurd if you really believe in the 2nd law.

You still don't get it.

Yes every object animate or inanimate decays over time.

And that proves evolution can't happen?

You poor boy. Your brain is decaying in this thread.
 
The 2nd law has a greater affect as time passes. Somewhere between 2.7 and 3.5 billion years ago life supposedly showed up, in truth they don't know. That is a lot of time to pass in a universe where entropy never decreases but over time only increases,and you think complexity and order would increase. Sorry but that is absurd if you really believe in the 2nd law.

Face it, the universe and everything in it were created and we are seeing the effects of the 2nd law at work no matter how you fudge the numbers.

The 2nd law has a greater affect as time passes.

Can you prove it?

in a universe where entropy never decreases but over time only increases

An acorn growing into an oak tree decreases entropy in itself.

Sorry but that is absurd if you really believe in the 2nd law.

You still don't get it.

As time passes that oak tree will slip in to decay and die. That tree completed it's cycle.

No one denies that trees die and decay.
Only idiots claim the 2nd Law means things cannot get more complex.
 
YWC is living proof that nature tries many experiments that fail. Just because the mind developed to a point that it has the power to speculate does not gaurantee that his dream of a god will ever materialise. There are sound reasons why the "what if?" in the human brain appeared. It is purely a survival tool. It is a natural extension of strategy to elude a predator and further developed leapfrogging natural selection in organizing a human society by assembling many brains to act in concert on the same problems.

It is unfortunate that some members of the human race have side tracked this developement of a shared responsibility to design further survival strategies onto the capricious and unproven will of a mythical being.

There is an upside and a down side to any strategy. These believers in putting thier survival eggs in the "god basket" have willfully forgotten that any strategy proven unworkable by facts and real tangeable proof have just been lucky that in 2000 years thier tangent strategy has not had to withstand a devastating test. If they did it would rid the world of a lot of useless consumtion of resources that would otherwise be focused on things that actually progressed and furthered human developement in directions that promoted our future survival ..not welcomed human destruction..AKA death..(heaven) I E "The apolocolypse is not a survival strategy".
 
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It's pretty simple really,you believe something that goes against known laws of Physics.There are many scientists that will admit there is no evidence that contradicts the 1st or 2nd law of thermodynamics.

Dr. wieland completely and logically defeated the arguments that was being presented.If you leave any system to randomness will it drift towards disorder or not ? This is exactly what I said that if you didn't have a coded message to change an egg in to a human it would be a random process not the message forcing it's will on the matter.what are the chances of that egg becoming a human absent of the coded message in Dna ?

How many examples of randomness, do you need to admit, a random process would only produce a chaotic disorderly system ?

Thesaurus Legend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun 1. randomness - (thermodynamics) a thermodynamic quantity representing the amount of energy in a system that is no longer available for doing mechanical work; "entropy increases as matter and energy in the universe degrade to an ultimate state of inert uniformity"
entropy, S
physical property - any property used to characterize matter and energy and their interactions
conformational entropy - entropy calculated from the probability that a state could be reached by chance alone
thermodynamics - the branch of physics concerned with the conversion of different forms of energy
2. randomness - the quality of lacking any predictable order or plan

So now how would you ever get order and complexity from unguided natural processes ?

How would you get the genetic language with an absence of intelligence ?

The big bang produced chaos how did chaos produce order and complexity ?

The only chance in a chaotic event you would have to regain order is quickly, the more time that goes by the worse the disorder.

The bibles account makes much more sense according to the evidence.That order was at it's highest level after creation, and since creation the universe and everything in it has been affected by disorder, and it just keeps getting worse, being supported by the 2nd law.

Carl Weiland didn't do anything but demonstrate himself to be a scam artist. You have to be either a lunatic or a moron to think otherwise. His entire presentation was as rediculous as the mathematical "proofs" that "prove" 1=0
He does a pretty good job pointing out the important points of this issue. He showed the fallacy in your sides thinking that that 2nd law can be violated in some areas and not others. His presentation, I wished I could have seen it not just hear it. His easy to understand why theories of naturalism like abiogenesis and macroevolution violate the 2nd law. I was not intending on offending you but make you better understand why creation believe as they do. Dr. Carl made an awesome argument for creationism. In the process showed the rediculous views of your side.
so what as you've been told countless times.. flaws in a theory or science in general are no evidence that your fantasy is correct.none of "believers"has presented anything that gives "the god did it" conjecture and veracity at all.
 
Not a problem,did matter always exist ? I would doubt it since our universe had a beginning and even if matter always existed, Where did the energy come from ? What ignited the bid bang ?

The singularity contained compressed matter so it existed before the Big Bang. The onus is on you to prove that matter was "created".

You would have to prove your claim.

The conclusion of this lecture is that the universe has not existed forever. Rather, the universe, and time itself, had a beginning in the Big Bang, about 15 billion years ago. The beginning of real time, would have been a singularity, at which the laws of physics would have broken down. Nevertheless, the way the universe began would have been determined by the laws of physics, if the universe satisfied the no boundary condition. This says that in the imaginary time direction, space-time is finite in extent, but doesn't have any boundary or edge. The predictions of the no boundary proposal seem to agree with observation. The no boundary hypothesis also predicts that the universe will eventually collapse again. However, the contracting phase, will not have the opposite arrow of time, to the expanding phase. So we will keep on getting older, and we won't return to our youth. Because time is not going to go backwards, I think I better stop now.

The Beginning of Time - Stephen Hawking
using stephen Hawking(an atheist) as a source is a conflict of interest...on the other hand it's a fine example of your tenuous grasp on reality.
 
It's pretty simple really,you believe something that goes against known laws of Physics.There are many scientists that will admit there is no evidence that contradicts the 1st or 2nd law of thermodynamics.

Dr. wieland completely and logically defeated the arguments that was being presented.If you leave any system to randomness will it drift towards disorder or not ? This is exactly what I said that if you didn't have a coded message to change an egg in to a human it would be a random process not the message forcing it's will on the matter.what are the chances of that egg becoming a human absent of the coded message in Dna ?

How many examples of randomness, do you need to admit, a random process would only produce a chaotic disorderly system ?

Thesaurus Legend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun 1. randomness - (thermodynamics) a thermodynamic quantity representing the amount of energy in a system that is no longer available for doing mechanical work; "entropy increases as matter and energy in the universe degrade to an ultimate state of inert uniformity"
entropy, S
physical property - any property used to characterize matter and energy and their interactions
conformational entropy - entropy calculated from the probability that a state could be reached by chance alone
thermodynamics - the branch of physics concerned with the conversion of different forms of energy
2. randomness - the quality of lacking any predictable order or plan

So now how would you ever get order and complexity from unguided natural processes ?

How would you get the genetic language with an absence of intelligence ?

The big bang produced chaos how did chaos produce order and complexity ?

The only chance in a chaotic event you would have to regain order is quickly, the more time that goes by the worse the disorder.

The bibles account makes much more sense according to the evidence.That order was at it's highest level after creation, and since creation the universe and everything in it has been affected by disorder, and it just keeps getting worse, being supported by the 2nd law.

Carl Weiland didn't do anything but demonstrate himself to be a scam artist. You have to be either a lunatic or a moron to think otherwise. His entire presentation was as rediculous as the mathematical "proofs" that "prove" 1=0
He does a pretty good job pointing out the important points of this issue. He showed the fallacy in your sides thinking that that 2nd law can be violated in some areas and not others. His presentation, I wished I could have seen it not just hear it. His easy to understand why theories of naturalism like abiogenesis and macroevolution violate the 2nd law. I was not intending on offending you but make you better understand why creation believe as they do. Dr. Carl made an awesome argument for creationism. In the process showed the rediculous views of your side.

He showed the fallacy in your sides thinking that that 2nd law can be violated in some areas and not others.

Where has anyone on "our side" claimed that the 2nd Law can be violated?
Do you feel that the complexity of an oak tree, compared to an acorn, is a violation?

Show some specifics, instead of general accusations.
 
You would have to prove your claim.

The conclusion of this lecture is that the universe has not existed forever. Rather, the universe, and time itself, had a beginning in the Big Bang, about 15 billion years ago. The beginning of real time, would have been a singularity, at which the laws of physics would have broken down. Nevertheless, the way the universe began would have been determined by the laws of physics, if the universe satisfied the no boundary condition. This says that in the imaginary time direction, space-time is finite in extent, but doesn't have any boundary or edge. The predictions of the no boundary proposal seem to agree with observation. The no boundary hypothesis also predicts that the universe will eventually collapse again. However, the contracting phase, will not have the opposite arrow of time, to the expanding phase. So we will keep on getting older, and we won't return to our youth. Because time is not going to go backwards, I think I better stop now.

The Beginning of Time - Stephen Hawking

That really puts the kabash on the silly 6,000 year old earth myth.

Do you understand speculation and conjecture ?
you've proven you don't!
a 6000 year old earth is neither, it's a fantasy...
 
The singularity consisted of matter and and energy and is entirely consistent with the 2nd law. You are pretending that your "creator" created matter but that would violate the 2nd law. Hawkings is correct that we do not know what form matter and energy took prior to the Big Bang but he is not saying that matter did not exist prior to the Big Bang. There are no intelligent scientists who are agreeing with your delusion that matter was "created".

Once again your creationist agenda obstructs your comprehension of reality.

There is no evidence showing matter existed before time,zero none. You simply don't know don't act like you do.

Of course there is. What did the singularity consist of prior to the Big Bang? Fairy dust? Your "creators" dandruff? Matter exists! That is an irrefutable fact. The singularity consisted of matter and energy prior to the Big Bang. The onus is on YOU to prove that the singularity did not contain any energy/matter prior to the Big Bang.
the big bang theory states " all the energy and matter in the universe were compressed into a infinitesimally small space.."
I don't understand how that translates to nothing for creationists...
 
The 2nd law has a greater affect as time passes.

Can you prove it?

in a universe where entropy never decreases but over time only increases

An acorn growing into an oak tree decreases entropy in itself.

Sorry but that is absurd if you really believe in the 2nd law.

You still don't get it.

Yes every object animate or inanimate decays over time.

And that proves evolution can't happen?

You poor boy. Your brain is decaying in this thread.
Thanks for agreeing with over time all objects are affected by decay which is the result of disorder that leads to death. What we exp over time is devolution. Things are not getting better or improving in complexity,that is what you need for evolution to trend upwards. You should know by now the basics of macro evolution. Micro-adaptations do happen but they are minor changes and the genetic information is already in the Genome to adapt.
 
How, then, is creationism—as opposed to “naturalism,” defined as “a philosophical viewpoint according to which everything arises from natural properties and causes, and supernatural or spiritual explanations are excluded or discounted”—scientific? Admittedly, the answer depends on how you define “scientific.” Too often, “science” and “naturalism” are considered one and the same, leaving creationist views out by definition. Such a definition requires an irrational reverence of naturalism. Science is defined as “the observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanation of phenomena.” Nothing requires science, in and of itself, to be naturalistic. Naturalism, like creationism, requires a series of presuppositions that are not generated by experiments. They are not extrapolated from data or derived from test results. These philosophical presuppositions are accepted before any data is ever taken. Because both naturalism and creationism are strongly influenced by presuppositions that are neither provable nor testable, and enter into the discussion well before the facts do, it is fair to say that creationism is at least as scientific as naturalism.

Is creationism scientific?

One word: Evidence.

Why are you going outside this system we call the universe, to explain phenomena that happen within the universe? You need to provide a justification for belief by any evidence of ANYTHING outside of this system. You haven't, and can not, so therefore, creationism is unscientific.
What a silly response knowing is no evidence anyting arising from natural uguided processes.
 
Yes, I'm mocking your misunderstanding of the 2nd Law.

Coded instructions mean the 2nd Law works? Or that it doesn't work?

The 2nd law has a greater affect as time passes. Somewhere between 2.7 and 3.5 billion years ago life supposedly showed up, in truth they don't know. That is a lot of time to pass in a universe where entropy never decreases but over time only increases,and you think complexity and order would increase. Sorry but that is absurd if you really believe in the 2nd law.

Face it, the universe and everything in it were created and we are seeing the effects of the 2nd law at work no matter how you fudge the numbers.

The 2nd law has a greater affect as time passes.

Can you prove it?

in a universe where entropy never decreases but over time only increases

An acorn growing into an oak tree decreases entropy in itself.

Sorry but that is absurd if you really believe in the 2nd law.

You still don't get it.
It has been explained to you. It is a temporary state from genetic data forcing its will on on matter. It is only part of the programmed process.
 

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