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To: Heartlander

If Quantum Mechanics was around in Darwin’s time and if he had studied it, he would know evolution not to be gradual and that every once in a while a rare combination of mutations would lead to the quantum leap.

In quantum mechanics, an electron in your body has the possiblility (extremely unlikely possibility) of making the quantum leap and suddenly appearing on the moon.

And for the creationist, quantum mechanics is as near a proven fact as you can get, it is close to 2+2 =4. (Actually in a quantum universe 2+2 only comes vanishingly close to equalling 4 due to quantum fluctations.)

In fact, all semiconductor technology depends on quantum mechanics being true.


2 posted on 07/16/2013 11:52:43 AM PDT by staytrue
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To: staytrue

Even the well-respected scientific journal Nature had an article earlier this year that states that in the face of recent discoveries in molecular and cell biology, we do NOT understand the basic mechanisms of evolution!!!!

http://thelocutionaryact.wordpress.com/2013/04/24/dna-celebrate-the-unknowns/


3 posted on 07/16/2013 12:02:06 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: staytrue
If Quantum Mechanics was around in Darwin’s time and if he had studied it, he would know evolution not to be gradual and that every once in a while a rare combination of mutations would lead to the quantum leap.

You're using the popular trope 'quantum leap' to mean a sudden and dramatic change; that's not the meaning of the term in QM. A quantum leap is usually the smallest possible change in the state of a particle.

8 posted on 07/16/2013 6:15:47 PM PDT by eclecticEel (Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: 7/4/1776 - 3/21/2010)
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To: staytrue

Isn’t a quantum difference very tiny?


9 posted on 07/16/2013 7:35:21 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: staytrue

Would you explain what you are saying a little more clearly? Are you saying that material ‘pops’ into existence every once-in a while? Are you saying that the quantum event comes from nothing or does a quantum event arise from a quantum vacuum with a rich sea of fluctuting electrical activity? And when this quantum event which you reference “pops” into existence, into what space did it pop into at the moment of creation? All of science says just prior to creation space did not exist, nor matter, nor energy. Would you explain the Borde-Guth-Vilenkin theory which has disposed of the cosmological argument of a quantum event accounting for the creation of the universe? Thank you.


19 posted on 07/17/2013 4:47:16 PM PDT by Texas Songwriter (')
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To: staytrue
Quantum mechanics works for predicting. Newton's Physics worked for predicting, but when Einstein finished his work, a more accurate means to predict was available.

My point is, we are not likely to be at the definitive level of comprehending the Universe in which quantum mechanical calculations work well as a predictor. Our current conceptualization of time is not so complete that we can claim to have reached the last rung of a long ladder of knowledge.

Question for you: if humankind discover a profound aspect of the Universe regarding the nature of living things as opposed to non-living things that they did not heretofore know about or even predict, will the aspect be any less a Creation of God Who is Author of the Universe?

20 posted on 07/17/2013 6:11:16 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: staytrue

” he would know evolution not to be gradual and that every once in a while a rare combination of mutations would lead to the quantum leap”

Then are you saying that all of those years scientist were trying to convince me that it was indeed a fact that we were “randomly mutated from ocean slime to our knuckle-dragging neanderthal long-long lost cousins to our current incarnation was wrong”?


118 posted on 07/26/2013 12:37:02 PM PDT by Rock N Jones
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