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To: Creationist
Science==the state or fact of knowing knowledge

No it isn't. Science is a method of acquiring knowledge about the world, that assumes that supernatural intervention doesn't occur, and that the universe behaves predictably. Using these assumptions human knowledge has increased exponentially over the last 350 years.

Knowledge does not equal wisdom.

I've already pointed out that your posts make quite clear that you have acquired neither knowledge nor wisdom thus far during your stay on earth. No knowledge of how science works, and not the wisdom to remain silent in your ignorance. Abe Lincoln said something about this, that you'd do well to take note of.

Before you spew untrue facts you should look up the words and understand there [sic] meaning.

Unintentionally hilarious, to be lecturing me about meaning, while making a grade-school grammatical error. Please point out an "untrue fact" that I have "spewed", if you can. In the meantime please stop telling lies about evolution, about which you quite clearly know nothing.

1,215 posted on 01/30/2006 9:56:20 AM PST by Thatcherite (More abrasive blackguard than SeaLion or ModernMan)
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To: Thatcherite
You do not know me or my abilities you. It is you and others who think evolution is a science like biology, chemistry, physics, building, mechanics, learning etc.

Professing themselves wise they became fools. Romans 1:22

.Post 968 fossils do not prove evolution, stalactites do not take thousands of years, moon receding away from the planet would have the land flooded twice a day millions of years ago, magnetic field loosing strength the earth would have to strong a field to support life, sun is shrinking would have been to hot to support life millions of years ago. Now I know all of you freolvutionist believe that these phenomena all fluctuate so that the decay rates of these are not a constant yet you foolishly believe that atomic decay has been constant.

Science is not about acquiring knowledge about the world science is the state or fact of knowing knowledge whether you want to except it or not look it up in a dictionary. Not the Internet, try one that is older also with the original meaning, not the new and improved meaning.
1,234 posted on 01/30/2006 8:08:02 PM PST by Creationist (If the earth is old show me your proof. Salvation from the judgment of your sins is free.)
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To: Thatcherite; RadioAstronomer
Another poster posted to you:

.... sun is shrinking .....

Another creationist-contrary-to-reality claim!

(Hint for they unenlightened: as the fusion reactions take place in the sun, mass is being converted to energy, and that energy eventualy works it's way to the surface where it is radiated away as light. That means the sun is losing mass slightly over time, which decreases its gravity slightly. The slight decrease in gravity over time leads to an expansion (not contraction) of the size of the sun, as there is less gravity to counteract the thermodynamic pressure of the matter comprising the sun; hence the sun expands slight as it ages, which means it is larger now than it was several billions of years ago. Additionally, the sun's energy output increases with time; this also requires the solar radius to increase, as the increased energy output in the core further offsets the tendency of the gravity of the sun to compress its contents.

IOW, for the vast majority of the lifetime of the sun, its size increases with age. Hence, a billion years ago, it was smaller, not larger, than it is now.

IOW, your interlocutor couldn't have been more wrong if he tried.

1,236 posted on 01/30/2006 9:11:07 PM PST by longshadow (FReeper #405, entering his ninth year of ignoring nitwits, nutcases, and recycled newbies)
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