Evidence for God from Science

In other words, at which point do Creationists stick the arbitrary micro-/macro- divide. Macroevolution, in the sense that Creationists use it, is simply long-term microevolution.

Short answer: he's right. Long answer: The scenario sets A and B five days apart. Five days is a finite period of time. Therefore, you can go from A to B: they are only five days apart. The fact that the timeline is infinite just means that there is neither a first nor a last day. That doesn't chang...

It is merely an acknowledgement of the inherent epistemological limitations of any human endeavour: we only know the laws of logic (and everything derived thereof), and our own existences (I know I exist, you know you exist, but I don't know you exist). No proposed hypothesis can ever be proven, me...

I was away for longer than expected, so without further ado... There is no such thing as "evolution by natural selection." Natural selection is not a theory of evolution. It is a theory that the fittest survive as they are best adapted to their environments. Exactly. "Natural selectio...

I'm going to Kent for a week, so I'll respond to your posts after then

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Not if I was omnipotent :ewink: . But anyway... what makes you think this world is a test by God? A behaviourologist would experiment on mice because his knowledge about the is incomplete: he doesn't know what they'll do next. A computer programmer, however, has 'complete' knowledge of his program,...

Indeed, let's: Darwin is not the final authority. His original theory, while ground breaking, has been greatly refined since then. The reason science is so good at what it does is because it gladly rejects old theories in favour of better ones, refining what was once held to accommodate new data. D...

Correct. But how is this a refutation of Naturalism? Indeed, how is this a refutation of the theory of common descent? Neither predict such rapid and artificial production of life, nor evolution of new phyla. If anything, if someone did demonstrate the evolution of new phyla over, say, a decade, th...

I've refuted Naturalism? Where? You have stated numerous times that you CANNOT produce life nor reproduce the evolution of new phyla in a lab. Correct. But how is this a refutation of Naturalism? Indeed, how is this a refutation of the theory of common descent? Neither predict such rapid and artifi...

There are gaps in the fossil record. Well of course there are. What, you expect every single organism to leave behind a perfect fossil? I don't know what perfect fossils has to do with it? I was being facetious. It is perfectly reasonable that there should be gaps in the fossil record for the same ...

Yes, but why? What is it about a "true understanding of Jesus" that made you doubt evolution? Why didn't it make you doubt, say, Kirchhoff's circuit laws? Well, when you do understand who Jesus is and why he was sent to our world, you would also understand the need for our world to have a...

Is there anything in particular you can mention that would make an educated person doubt either the theory of abiogenesis or the theory of common descent? Well to qualify for the "educated" part, I graduated from Stevens Institute of Technology with a B.E. in computer engineering and I cu...

Regarding the theory of common descent, show me agreed mechanism/s amongst scientists for macroevolution and you will have something. Reproduction with variation in environmental niches leads to evolution by natural selection. Split a population into two, and such reproductive variation in one half...

No . You said they (classical mechanics and spontaneous generation) weren't refuted, and I was explaining to you that, in fact, they were. I NEVER said classical mechanics and spontaneous generation has been refuted… Naturalism has been refuted… By you! I've refuted Naturalism? Where? I think you'r...

No… You misunderstand… Are you saying that ID can't be falsifiable? No :scratch:. You said they (classical mechanics and spontaneous generation) weren't refuted, and I was explaining to you that, in fact, they were. But let's turn that around, how do we falsify the contention that natural selection...