Posted on 06/15/2006 3:13:38 PM PDT by conserv371
After thinking about what is the battle between creationism and evolution, I see it boiling down to whether we live in a qualitative universe or a quantative universe. In a quantative universe, change takes a long time to occur while a qualatative universe, dramatic change can occur quite rapidly. Quantative starts with building blocks where qualatative starts with a finished product. With quantative, circumstances continue as a long series of events, while qulatative works on the principle of sudden and even violent change.
We see with war where B-52 would carpet bomb places but compare that to one lone B-29 bomber that drops an atomic bomb. Quality far exceeds quantity! Another instance was Y2K. People were concerned the 2 digit problem would not be fixed in time but what was realized is that computer problems which took a year could now be fixed months or weeks. The intellectual capacity had greatly accelerated.
The battle is about is man the only maker? If natural evolution is true, then man is the greatest designer in this universe. If creation is true, then there is a Heavenly Designer. And don't tell the ACLU but one of the subjects in school is really religious in it's name. History is really His story which is why time goes with B.C.-before Christ and A.D.- in the year of our Lord.
Creationists see God as the central theme around which everything revolves. They see God as the Author of arts & sciences as well as the Government that governs this universe. This why prayer becomes a tool since there is the sense that God is sovereign hence people believing God put President Bush in office.
So in the end, circumstances will continue as they have been or they may be great changes happening in the near future.
As Joseph Stalin used to say, the quantity has a quality of its own.
It's the definition of God that's the sticking point. I don't know any scientist who feels that humans have produced anything more impressive than whatever force is responsible for the existence of the known universe. But that doesn't mean the creating force is something like a human only more powerful, i.e. an "intelligent" force in the way that humans think of intelligence.
And your qualitative/quantitative analysis doesn't really make any sense to me. Speed is measured quantitatively, no matter how awesomely fast it may be. The whole question is far beyond the paradigms that we're familiar with. Recently physicists managed to get an electron to spin in opposite directions, at the same time. And even more recently, a different group of physicists managed to get a beam of light to exit the opposite end of the tube it entered, before it entered (and simultaneously it travelled backwards in the same tube). Ponder that stuff for a bit. Something can be true and false at the same time (e.g. the simultaneous spinning in opposite directions of the electron), and the result of an action can happen before the cause (e.g. the beam of light that left the tube before it entered). Anybody who is trying to squeeze the subject of how this all got here into simple storybook terms like the Genesis tale, is doomed to fail.
Beer.
I want lots of quality.
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