Posted on August 15, 2008 by thecountryshrink
Some commentators read my general overviews, and they assume that I don’t know the basic cosmological views, such as the cosmological view of the starlight and time problem. However, I have been reading about cosmology for the last 16 years or so, and I am quite acquainted with how the views on cosmology “have [...]
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Posted on August 11, 2008 by thecountryshrink
This view of creationism rests on a literal interpretation of the Bible. The notion is that the Earth was created 6000-10000 years ago. The dating is based on the genealogy listed in the chapter Numbers in the Bible. This perspective says that uniformitarian interpretations of geology and cosmology are incorrect or misinterpreted. [...]
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Posted on August 11, 2008 by thecountryshrink
Dwilli, my co-author has written a series of posts about the book, In Six Days : Why Fifty Scientists Choose to Believe in Creation.
1. “The Alpha and Omega…”
2. “Abundant Life”
3. “Abundant Life” II
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Posted on August 4, 2008 by thecountryshrink
The scope of intelligent design is limited. It either assumes that a designer kicked things off in the beginning with the a plan that things would unfold as they did, or that a designer was involved at some point in the design of life forms. Christian creationism differs from this in some ways [...]
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Posted on July 21, 2008 by thecountryshrink
And then did gravity clump matter together. Albeit, faster than should have been possible. With particles flying outward at faster than the speed of light, which today is impossible, but then not so miraculous. And then, did we notice that every galaxy is moving away from us by the redshift of light. Originally we had [...]
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Posted on July 18, 2008 by thecountryshrink
It often seems to me that scientists lose track of the fact that their research methods and interpretation of results are based on philosophical assumptions. Now, to be fair, sometimes I have seen this awareness, but oftentimes it is absent.
There is no such thing as philosophy-free science; there is only science whose philosophical baggage is [...]
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