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Chapter 1: The Nature of Evidence 2023-10-16 05:03, Chapter 1 The Nature…
Chapter 1: The Nature of Evidence 2023-10-16 05:03
Can scientific evidence ultimately settle the debate between creation and evolution? No.
Evidence against billions of years macro-evolution could be explained by rescuing devices
Information theory
DNA is information
Encoded message
Expected action
Intended purpose
Rescuing device: Unknown undiscovered mechanism that produces new information in DNA?
No known law of nature, no known process, no known sequence of events that can cause information to originate from itself in matter
Every piece of information can be traced back along the chain of transmission to a mental source, the mind of the sender
Irreducible complexity:
eye
heart, blood, blood vessels
Rescuing device: Maybe nothing is really itredicibly complex?
maybe it just seems that way because we’re
unable to imagine the stepwise process
Age indicators
Comets can only last 100,000 years, not billions of years
Rescuing device: Oort Clouds?
Because we don’t know everything
We can’t prove that there aren’t Oort clouds
C-14 found in diamonds
But C-14 can’t be detected
in things that are more than
100,000 years old and don’t
exist in things more than 500,000
years old
C-14 in dinosaurs
Evidence against creation can be explained by rescuing devices
Distant starlight
Modes creationists differ on?
or
Unknown Rescuing device?
Since both evolutionists and creationists can use rescuing devices by resorting to the unknown to explain conflicting evidence, evidence cannot ultimately prove that creatiom or evolution is true
But rescuing devices cannot be used arbitrarily to prove irrational worldviews
For example, you can’t just say that the core of Jupiter is made of cheese just because we don’t know that it isn’t
Because if you can just say something is true because we don’t know it’s not, you can also say the opposite, but that doesn’t make the opposite true because both can’t be true at the sane time
So in order for us to reaort to the unknown by invoking rescuing devices,
the rescuing device must be rescuing a
rational
world view - a worldview which we have
good reasons
to believe
Chapter 1
The Nature of Evidence
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