Re: [CTRL] Scientists say God .....Exists

1999-08-30 Thread Bob Stokes

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In a message dated 99-08-29 10:19:52 EDT, Ric Carter writes:

 Meanwhile I notice that nobody here has ventured to answer any of
 the questions I posed re: deities and creation.  That's probably
 because it's not possible to rationally support deistic creation.
 It's obvious - saying "god(s) did it" means "I don't/can't know." 

Belief in a God(s) is a matter of faith and only needs to be proven/unproven
to an individual.

Can you explain the "proof" of evolution such as Nebraska man, Java ape-man,
Piltdown man, Neanderthal man, or Lucy?  It takes time, but all missing links
have been proven to be hoaxes (lies) by perhaps over zealous scientists.

Regards,
Bob Stokes

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Re: [CTRL] Scientists say God .....Exists

1999-08-30 Thread Ric Carter

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From: Bob Stokes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Ric Carter writes:

  Meanwhile I notice that nobody here has ventured to answer any of
  the questions I posed re: deities and creation.  That's probably
  because it's not possible to rationally support deistic creation.
  It's obvious - saying "god(s) did it" means "I don't/can't know." 

 Belief in a God(s) is a matter of faith and only needs to be
 proven/unproven to an individual.

Prove?  I said nothing about "proving" anything, I just asked for
some rational support for creationist notions - and no, such isn't
really possible, is it?  Science is about testing one's ideas,
faith is about acceptance without testing - the twain shan't meet.

 Can you explain the "proof" of evolution such as Nebraska man, Java
 ape-man, Piltdown man, Neanderthal man, or Lucy?  It takes time, but
 all missing links have been proven to be hoaxes (lies) by perhaps
 over zealous scientists.

noknok  Is this thing on?  noknok  Why do you keep bringing
up 'proof' ??  'Proof' is significant at the bar [both types], in
graphic arts and cooperage, in formal logic -- but 'proof' has
nothing to do with science.  Science is about building workable,
usable models of observable reality, devising the most viable
explanations for what we see around us, revising those models as
we observe and think more.  There's a process: observe, hypothesize,
test, revise, ad infinitum.  If the verified data overwhelmingly
supports a theory, fine - one may regard that theory as "proved" -
yet for that theory to be relevant to workers in that discipline,
it must make predictions, point to further areas to be explored.

Over roughly 150 years, biological evolution has been accepted by
the vast majority of biological researchers, because it provides
the most coherent structure for the vast amount of evidence.  And
evolution [the survival of changes over time] is explained by
selection and other mechanisms, which make testable predictions
about relationships between lifeforms.  We see, say, similarities
in the anatomy and physiology of primates; we look closer, and
see further similarities in biochemistry; we look closer, and
see similarities in genetic structures.  Evolutionary theory
predicts these similarities - if such theory was incorrect, those
similarities wouldn't be observed, and evolution would be shit-
canned in favor of another theory that worked better.

[Whoever devised such a better theory would be immortalized,
lionized - they'd certainly NOT be motivated to suppress their
ideas, kowtow to "current dogma".  One makes one's reputation
by smashing paradigms, eh?]

As for the protohominids you mention above - you know that the
fossil record is necessarily spotty, yet a tentative family
tree CAN be devised from what data there is.  Is that family
tree precisely accurate?  Of course not, and I doubt that you'd
find any anthropologist/paleontologist who'd make such a claim.
They'll say that, given what we know, this is how the fragments
seem to fit together, and that we need to keep on searching for
more specimens.  Some future technology may be developed that'll
allow studying any genetic fragments extant in hominid fossils;
then, the relationships will be much clearer, the "family tree"
will be much more accurate.  But it'll never be carved in stone.

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Re: [CTRL] Scientists say God .....Exists

1999-08-30 Thread Hilary A. Thomas

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 Subject: Re: [CTRL] Scientists say "God .Exists"
 Date: Monday, August 30, 1999 2:13 PM

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  Ric Carter writes:
 
   Meanwhile I notice that nobody here has ventured to answer any of
   the questions I posed re: deities and creation.  That's probably
   because it's not possible to rationally support deistic creation.
   It's obvious - saying "god(s) did it" means "I don't/can't know." 
 
  Belief in a God(s) is a matter of faith and only needs to be
  proven/unproven to an individual.

 Prove?  I said nothing about "proving" anything, I just asked for
 some rational support for creationist notions - and no, such isn't
 really possible, is it?  Science is about testing one's ideas,
 faith is about acceptance without testing - the twain shan't meet.

I have always found the alternative (a random/chaotic universe) to scary
for words.  Perhaps, it isn't faith, but avoidanceor the lesser of two
evils.

Hilary

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Re: [CTRL] Scientists say God .....Exists

1999-08-29 Thread Ric Carter

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 you write:
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

   Abiogenesis has been observed - why invoke god(s)?

  I'd sure like to know when this has been observed. 

 Abiogenesis (living units produced from non-living materials) was
 explored in 1953 in an experiment by Stanley Miller and Harold Urey.

There's been a bit of other research in the ensuing 46 years.  Ilya
Prigogine [Nobel in Chemistry, 1976] showed the self-organization
of organic chemicals.  Biological chemicals commonly derive from
nonbiological sources: http://www.naturalgas.com/consumer/origins.html
A German team recently reported having synthesized self-replicating
entities - life, in other words.  But don't believe me - do some
web searches on ABIOGENESIS and BIOGENESIS, see what pops up.  Or
see the links here: http://sln.fi.edu/qa97/biology/biopoint2.html

Meanwhile I notice that nobody here has ventured to answer any of
the questions I posed re: deities and creation.  That's probably
because it's not possible to rationally support deistic creation.
It's obvious - saying "god(s) did it" means "I don't/can't know."

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Re: [CTRL] Scientists say God .....Exists

1999-08-29 Thread TenebrousT

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In a message dated 8/29/99 10:19:52 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:

 There's been a bit of other research in the ensuing 46 years.  Ilya
  Prigogine [Nobel in Chemistry, 1976] showed the self-organization
  of organic chemicals.  Biological chemicals commonly derive from
  nonbiological sources: http://www.naturalgas.com/consumer/origins.html
  A German team recently reported having synthesized self-replicating
  entities - life, in other words.  But don't believe me - do some
  web searches on ABIOGENESIS and BIOGENESIS, see what pops up.  Or
  see the links here: http://sln.fi.edu/qa97/biology/biopoint2.html

  Meanwhile I notice that nobody here has ventured to answer any of
  the questions I posed re: deities and creation.  That's probably
  because it's not possible to rationally support deistic creation.
  It's obvious - saying "god(s) did it" means "I don't/can't know."


You are correct, in that rational support of Deities is not possible.  You
make a fallacy of assumption, in that you assume that for one to be against
the dogmatism of scientific materialism, and the entrenchment of Darwinianism
is to be in favor of Creationism in any form.  That is not so, and in so
defending your position you merely point out the flaws in the other
("scientific" Creationism).  I submit that there is ample evidence,
observable and testable of evolution within species, but scant evidence or
proof of MACRO-evolution, though I don't necessarily discount the
possibiblity.  It is erroneous to state that such is knowable and testable
when it is in fact not.  Furthermore, as I have already stated self
replicating chemical compounds is not life, and life from nonliving matter
has never been accomplished by man, nor has it ever been observed.  Further
some of the experiments which produce organic molecules, and nucleic acids
make assumptions about the early condition of the earth which are in fact not
established, theus they are flawed to some degree at least.  We are removed
from the point at which such events took place and because of that will never
be able to, with any degree of accuracy or certainty, reproduce the exact
mechanism by which such occurred, if it occurred at all.  You fallaciously
contend, like God yourself that all is and you must accept it as such, I
guess I am in the role of the devil then to say that you are wrong in that
you do not know it all, and have never observed life from nonlife, and have
never seen MACRO evolution in action, nor separate species evolve from
another.  Your claims may indeed prove to be correct but until that day you
merely postulate theory and nothing more, since it is not proved.  Why is it
so egregious to you that others should contend different theories of origins?
 I am human enough to admit that I simply do not know for sure how things
came about and will listen to all sides of a debate before making a decision.

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[CTRL] Scientists say God .....Exists

1999-08-28 Thread Bob Stokes

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Scientists Find Evidence of God
Insight on the News, April 19,1999


by Stephen Goode
Reprinted with permission of Insight

The Darwinist hegemony in the natural sciences may be threatened by a
cutting-edge, revolutionary
movement that sees intelligent design in nature - and a Designer.


Chemist Charles Thaxton was amazed 15 years ago when The Mystery of
Life's Origin, a book he
coauthored on chemical evolution with two other scientists, provoked a
very positive response from
scientists around the country. Thaxton, a visiting assistant professor
at Charles University in Prague,
expected a negative reaction, if indeed the book (which since has come
to be regarded as one of the
opening salvos in what is called the Intelligent Design Movement) even
was so much as noticed.

After all, The Mystery of Life's Origin, which became a best-selling
college text, tentatively
proposed the case for intelligent design in nature and pointed out
serious flaws in Darwinism. Such
views were regarded as unthinkable and most definitely unscientific by
the vast majority of scientists
at the time, not only because Intelligent Design suggested that
evolution wasn't the random, chaotic
process most biologists believed it to be but (even more unacceptably)
indicated the probable
existence of a designer - God, perhaps - who was responsible for the
design. The notion that a
designer might be at work behind nature was a concept no self-respecting
scientist wanted to bring
into the scientific scheme of things.

"I didn't think anyone would accept the book. When we wrote it, it was
like being a lone wolf out
there," Thaxton tells Insight. "Hard-core materialists aren't going to
tolerate intelligence in nature," he
says. "Then I got lots of calls from scientists and
mathematicians who did" - men and women in a variety of scientific
fields who were coming to the
same conclusions that Thaxton had described in The Mystery of Life's
Origin. They (like Thaxton
and his coauthors) daily were coming across data in their laboratories
and scientific pursuits that no
longer could be explained by the standard model of Darwinian evolution.
Such data could be better -
and more scientifically - understood by arguing that certain highly
complex entities in nature - the
DNA molecule, for example - had been designed to do what they do and
hadn't evolved randomly,
by accident, which is how Darwinian evolution says they came about.

William Dembski was one of those who got in touch with Thaxton. Dembski,
a young man with a
Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Chicago, a second Ph.D. in
philosophy from the
University of Illinois at Chicago and a master's degree in theology from
Princeton Theological
Seminary, had a strong conviction that Thaxton not only was right but
onto something that was going
to revolutionize the way man looks at nature and the way biologists
approach their field. He wanted
to be part of that revolution.

Dembski recently published his own addition to the ever-growing
Intelligent Design Movement, a
closely argued book that he calls The Design Inference, in which Dembski
(whose impressive list of
degrees led one friend to describe him as "the perpetual student")
brings to bear his knowledge of
symbolic logic and mathematics to argue in favor of design in nature.
Dembski's book is one of the
latest and most impressive contributions that grace Design studies (the
name its adherents like to call
it), which is a new branch of science that has grown increasingly
sophisticated since Thaxton's
contribution 15 years ago.

Between Thaxton's coauthored book and Dembski's very recent
contribution, the Intelligent Design
Movement has traveled quite a distance, and more developments are on the
way, its adherents
promise. Intelligent Design now has its own professional journal,
Origins  Design. Many of its
advocates belong to a think tank, the Center for the Renewal of Science
and Culture at the
Discovery Institute in Seattle, though many of those associated with the
center are located elsewhere:
Dembski, for example, is in Dallas, and Thaxton remains in Prague. And
the movement has its own
magazine for nonscientists, the glossy quarterly Cosmic Pursuit, in
which scientists such as Thaxton
and Dembski present their ideas for the general reader.

What, then, are those ideas? First, they argue that their defense of
Design arises directly out of the
empirical data they have observed as scientists, rather than from any
theological or philosophical
notions they may hold. "Discoveries in mathematics and biology are
making way for Design and a
Designer," says Thaxton. And Michael Behe, a Lehigh University
biochemist who is author of one of
the Intelligent Design Movement's most important texts, Darwin's Black
Box (1996), tells Insight,
"Intelligent Design flows directly out of the data that now are
available."

What makes this claim significant is that it makes Intelligent Design a
phenomenon to be dealt with
and studied 

Re: [CTRL] Scientists say God .....Exists

1999-08-28 Thread Ric Carter

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 Scientists Find Evidence of God

God, or gods?  If one posits the existence of one god, why not
accept the existence of multiple gods?  Was the universe created
by a team?  How could we tell?  If there's only only one god,
did it manipulate the universe to look as though it had been
created by a team, or evolved naturally?  If there are multiple
gods, did they manipulate the universe to look as though it had
been created by a single god, or evolved naturally?

If one posits the existence of one or more creator deities, then
such deities could have manipulated the universe however they
wished, for purposes that humans can't comprehend - mustn't an
honest investigator disregard ALL evidence pro or con re: god(s),
since the evidence COULD be manipulated, tainted?

If one invokes god(s) to explain the origin/structure of the
universe, what forces/entities must be invoked to explain the
origin of the god(s)?  Who intelligently designed the intelligent
designer(s)?  Or did it/they evolve naturally, and if so, where/
when/how? Doesn't any invocation of gods merely push back the
question of origins into unexplorable realms?  Doesn't saying
"one or more gods did it" equate to "I don't know and I'll never
be able to find out, so I'll stop looking here" ??  Isn't the
invocation of god(s) a dead-end, a capitulation?

Evolution has been observed - why invoke god(s)?  Abiogenesis has
been observed - why invoke god(s)?  How complex is/are god(s)?
If observations of life and the universe can be explained without
invoking god(s), and god(s) is/are more complex than the deduced/
observed forces and phenomena of nature, aren't god(s) the least
likely workable explanations?  Doesn't Occam's Razor preclude gods?

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Re: [CTRL] Scientists say God .....Exists

1999-08-28 Thread Hilary A. Thomas

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Any mention of Goddess?

Hilary

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 - Original Message -
 From: Bob Stokes [EMAIL PROTECTED]

  Scientists Find Evidence of God

 God, or gods?  If one posits the existence of one god, why not
 accept the existence of multiple gods?  Was the universe created
 by a team?  How could we tell?  If there's only only one god,
 did it manipulate the universe to look as though it had been
 created by a team, or evolved naturally?  If there are multiple
 gods, did they manipulate the universe to look as though it had
 been created by a single god, or evolved naturally?

 If one posits the existence of one or more creator deities, then
 such deities could have manipulated the universe however they
 wished, for purposes that humans can't comprehend - mustn't an
 honest investigator disregard ALL evidence pro or con re: god(s),
 since the evidence COULD be manipulated, tainted?

 If one invokes god(s) to explain the origin/structure of the
 universe, what forces/entities must be invoked to explain the
 origin of the god(s)?  Who intelligently designed the intelligent
 designer(s)?  Or did it/they evolve naturally, and if so, where/
 when/how? Doesn't any invocation of gods merely push back the
 question of origins into unexplorable realms?  Doesn't saying
 "one or more gods did it" equate to "I don't know and I'll never
 be able to find out, so I'll stop looking here" ??  Isn't the
 invocation of god(s) a dead-end, a capitulation?

 Evolution has been observed - why invoke god(s)?  Abiogenesis has
 been observed - why invoke god(s)?  How complex is/are god(s)?
 If observations of life and the universe can be explained without
 invoking god(s), and god(s) is/are more complex than the deduced/
 observed forces and phenomena of nature, aren't god(s) the least
 likely workable explanations?  Doesn't Occam's Razor preclude gods?

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Re: [CTRL] Scientists say God .....Exists

1999-08-28 Thread TenebrousT

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In a message dated 8/28/99 1:02:33 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 Abiogenesis has
  been observed - why invoke god(s)?

I'd sure like to know when this has been observed.  Did some scientists
create life sometime, out of nonliving matter.  That would be major news
after all.  I'm not talking about self replicating chemicals, I'm talking
about lifeforms, created.  There is a Quantum leap from self replicating
chemical compounds and life in my view.  When was life created from nonliving
matter?

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Re: [CTRL] Scientists say God .....Exists

1999-08-28 Thread Bob Stokes

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In a message dated 99-08-28 16:01:24 EDT, you write:


 In a message dated 8/28/99 1:02:33 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 writes:

  Abiogenesis has
   been observed - why invoke god(s)?

 I'd sure like to know when this has been observed.  Did some scientists
 create life sometime, out of nonliving matter.  That would be major news
 after all.  I'm not talking about self replicating chemicals, I'm talking
 about lifeforms, created.  There is a Quantum leap from self replicating
 chemical compounds and life in my view.  When was life created from nonliving
 matter? 

Abiogenesis (living units produced from non-living materials) was explored in
1953 in an experiment by Stanley Miller and Harold Urey.  They mixed water
vapor, methane, ammonia, and hydrogen gas in a reacting chamber with
electrodes and a heat source. Within a week, the mixture contained amino
acids and other components of living cells.

Other experiments have produced ATP and the bases of DNA and RNA. If these
compounds could be encapsulated in some sort of semipermeable membrane, it is
conceivable that a proto-cell could possibly develope. To my knowledge, this
has never been demonstrated.

This is not living organisms being created from non-living materials.

Regards,
Bob Stokes

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