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Originally posted by VeritasAequitas
reply to post by JesuitGarlic
Why is it that you are only using Biblical scholars or facts that concede your points; then why is it that you ignore all evidence to the contrary and accuse it of being devil nonsense?
Originally posted by AfterInfinity
reply to post by JesuitGarlic
Well, to start with, you called Pangaea a lie. Which is obviously an idiot thing to do, considering all of the major authorities will defend Pangaea with EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE... hint hint.
Does that do for a start?
Originally posted by VeritasAequitas
reply to post by JesuitGarlic
What does any of that have to do with proving Christianity or Theosophy is false?
It is quite easy to understand why so many scientists have changed their minds in the past thirty years, agreeing that the universe cannot reasonably be explained as a cosmic accident. Evidence for an intelligent designer becomes more compelling the more we understand about our carefully crafted habitat.
The fine tuning of the universe provides prima facie evidence of deistic design.
Fred Hoyle and I differ on lots of questions, but on this we agree: a common sense and satisfying interpretation of our world suggests the designing hand of a superintelligence.
Over the past thirty years or so, scientists have discovered that just about everything about the basic structure of the universe is balanced on a razor's edge for life to exist. The coincidences are far too fantastic to attribute this to mere chance or to claim that it needs no explanation. The dials are set too precisely to have been a random accident. Somebody, as Fred Hoyle quipped, has been monkeying with the physics.
Imagine a ruler, or one of those old-fashioned linear radio dials, that goes all the way across the universe. It would be broken down into one-inch increments, which means there would be billions upon billions upon billions of inches. The entire dial represents the range of force strengths in nature, with gravity being the weakest force and the strong nuclear force that binds protons and neutrons together in the nuclei being the strongest, a whopping ten thousand billion billion billion billion times stronger than gravity. The range of possible settings for the force of gravity can plausibly be taken to be at least as large as the total range of force strengths.
Now, let's imagine that you want to move the dial from where it's currently set. Even if you were to move it by only one inch, the impact on life in the universe would be catastrophic...That small adjustment of the dial would increase gravity by a billion-fold ...[that change] Relative to the entire radio dial-that is, the total range of force strengths in nature-it's extraordinarily small, just one part in ten thousand billion billion billion."
In fact, a planet with a gravitational pull of a thousand times that of the Earth would have a diameter of only forty feet, which wouldn't be enough to sustain an ecosystem. Besides which, stars with lifetimes of more than a billion years-compared to ten billion years for our sun-couldn't exist if you increase gravity by just three thousand times. As you can see, compared to the total range of force strengths in nature, gravity has an incomprehensibly narrow range for life to exist. Of all the possible settings on the dial, from one side of the universe to the other, it happens to be situated in the exact right fraction of an inch to make our universe capable of sustaining life.
Oh, you are a Seventh Day Adventist?? Well I think you should meet your brother; Church of Christ. You two might have some conflicts about who is really going to heaven...
/E: That's the kind of stupid nonsense I'm talking about from you ^ by the way.
Just know that I am not acquiescing; I just don't have the patience to argue with you.
The cliffs are composed mainly of soft, white chalk with a very fine-grained texture, composed primarily of coccoliths, plates of calcium carbonate formed by coccolithophores, single-celled planktonic algae whose skeletal remains sank to the bottom of the ocean during the Cretaceous