Is Biblical Creation a Distraction to Evangelism? (article)

Institute for Creation Research ^ | August 2013 | James J. S. Johnson, J.D., Th.D.

[BrandtMichaels]

Amazing - you post the entire quote, then take a portion out of context, create a strawman and expect me too defend it.

Don’t you know even the forensic trail can grow cold after as little as 48 hours [not all traces of DNA of course - but even DNA and other longer lasting clues if the thief or murderer knows a little applied science too].

Your progressive education is nearly complete grasshopper...

[BrandtMichaels]

“God planting things in the past to look older than they appear.”

And please tell us all how you came to ascertain this great leap of faith?

[BrandtMichaels]

I can’t answer for Fishtank but it appears to me that your pattern is to continually ‘misunderstand’ only a small portion of what is explained to you and then follow every liberal tendency practiced in the esteemed halls of academia.

Ridicule, strawman, etc and so on. Please read both sides of any argument first then proceed - never mind - why bother.

[fishtank]

To R7R,

Could you direct me to your original question?

I’ve been busy ... building nuclear equipment....

And no, that’s NOT a joke. I have a real job doing exactly that.

Fishtank, PhD, PE

[R7 Rocket]

To R7R,

Could you direct me to your original question?

I’ve been busy ... building nuclear equipment....[Oh really?]

And no, that’s NOT a joke. I have a real job doing exactly that.

Fishtank, PhD, PE

My question was:

"I'm still curious on why Fishtank hasn't called for the scramming of every nuclear reactor after he claimed that radioactive decay rates changed randomly"

I recommend having this discussion in "News/Activism".

[fishtank]

I mean, could you find the original quote about rad decay?

And yes, I do build nuclear equipment.

Do you?

[fishtank]

I found it for you.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2919762/posts?page=29#29

It's simple.

Nuclear decay rates are possibly non-constant in different relative gravitational reference frames (as the original article indicates - possibly),

Or, decay rates could have changed during the transient conditions after the Flood period.

This graph shows something profound happened in that time period.

Nuclear reactors are working now because we live in the time period which happens to be long after the original transient event.

P.S. That's how I was able to design the system for which I received a patent last year.

[R7 Rocket]

Nuclear reactors are working now because we live in the time period which happens to be long after the original transient event. P.S. That's how I was able to design the system for which I received a patent last year.

You claim that 4.5 billion years worth of decay was compressed within 40 days to ~ 4,000 year period? What is the relationship of decay rates to level of radioactivity?

For that matter, what do I mean when I say "the reactor is critical"?

What is a Delayed Neutron Precursor Daughter? What's the importance of Delayed Neutrons?

Does rod programming take into account the lowering decay rates? How come ECP's (you do know what an ECP is, right, nuclear expert?) don't take into account the lowering decay rates over the operational life of the reactor (even if they're small, changing decay rates must be factored into the chronological lifetime of the nuclear reactor). If decay rates are constant now, how did the researchers know they changed in the past, and if so, what force that is measurable made decay rates stop changing?

Speaking of core lifetimes, you do know the difference between the chronological age of the core and core life based on EFPH?

Your credentials should allow you to easily answer these questions.

[tacticalogic]

What happened to all the heat that was produced by compressing 4.5 billion years worth of apparent decay into that 40 days?

[Natufian]

Me too. If he can provide a coherent answer he may even have a convert on his hands.

[fishtank]

It seems you are well acquainted with reactor theory. I don’t know if you used Lamarsh or El-Wakil for reactor theory, but it doesn’t matter that much for what you are talking about.

By the way, my oral exams and qualifiers were 25 tears ago, so forgive me for not being instantly up-to-date on all of my past course work.

My current work is not involved with reactor theory, most of what I do involves fluid flow and the interaction between classical-continuum fluid mechanics effects and the statistical thermodynamic considerations of length scales in the intermolecular spacing between molecules in two phase flow.

Getting back to what you are talking about, the nonlinear transition space before, during and after the Flood is something that would involve modelling and measurements that might not now exist.

I am approaching this whole issue from the point of view of the disintegration of one state of equilibrium (pre-Flood), but your questions about reactor control involve where we are now - (post-Flood).

Again, please reflect upon the data presented in Genesis about the lifetime of Noah and his descendants.

The post-Flood environment does take into account release of heat from rad decay, where a warmer and wetter post-Flood biosphere persisted for several hundred years, followed by a cooling episode transition, noted by massive amounts of snowfall (glacierization and ice age features).

Isaiah 4:5

“Thus says God the Lord,

Who created the heavens and stretched them out,

Who spread out the earth and its offspring,

Who gives breath to the people on it

And spirit to those who walk in it.”

What would it have meant when God “stretched out the heavens”?

Did He simply stretch the air in the atmosphere?

Or did He, actually stretch the cosmos?

Or did He stretch space-time itself?

I think it’s possible He stretched the structure of space-time. There might have been two episodes of stretching, at Creation and at the Flood, but I’m not sure about that.

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Are you saved?

Have you been born-again?

Are you begotten from above?

Is Jesus your Savior?

Is your heart at rest in Him, and are you at peace with the people in your life?

[Natufian]

Phew, looks like my books on Geology, Astronomy, Geography, Biology, Physics, History, Palaeontology, Anthropology and Chemistry don’t need to be thrown on to the bonfire of Ignorance after all.