I find that there is nothing wrong with saying “I don’t know”. I would agree that science takes what is evident and available and draws conclusions from what is found out from what is available.
I guess that one of my frustrations, as a person who believes in Creation, comes from those who would take the strong position that I am a fool for believing so. I am not at all unintelligent…..but I am not a genius either. I am a person who observes and ponders…….knowing and understanding some things and investigating others.
Some things of which I am certain would include:
Order does not come out of chaos
The universe is expanding
The universe operates with clockwork precision without which we would not have the constants that exist that enable us to have science.
The universe and all things in it are in a state of decaying.
Order does arise from chaos, actually. Not lockstep precisely predictable order, but easily understood parameters inside which systems fit even if a precise state of affairs cannot be calculated.
And the universe does not operate with clockwork precision, it operates with a certain amount of precision that places definable limits on predictability. I'm going to recommend
Newton's Clock: Chaos in the Solar System by Ivars Peterson for a better explanation than I can give.
Lastly, things are in a general, but not absolute, state of decay. Entropy can be halted and reversed
locally, with the input of energy from outside -- for example, the shockwave of a supernova detonation can cause compression in a cloud of interstellar gas that ultimately leads to the formation of new stars -- a more ordered state than the gas before compression.
I believe that in the nature of mankind is a desire to support thoughts, actions and even justify theories by “cooking the numbers” at times. This is not to say scientists are all in some sort of conspiracy…..not at all…but there must be something really huge at stake when so much is done to belittle those who believe in Intelligent Design or Creation.
Those who believe in ID/creationism do so not
because of the evidence at hand, but
in spite of the evidence at hand. What's at stake is, quite simply, the scientific method and the pursuit of objective truth. Until they can provide concrete, repeatable, unequivocal evidence for their position, Creationists deserve to be belittled when they try to claim it's science.
We all joke about how weathermen get it wrong more than they get it right…..in fact today in my area it was forecast just yesterday that today was an 80% chance of rain……………..this morning it was forecast that today, instead of rain, we would have, and did have, a sunny day. Weather changes…….systems shift…………yet panic is trying to be seeded in the world based upon computer projections of the next 100 years and it is presented as solid fact………… we cannot get consistent reliable weather data for one week much less 100 years. (This is simply an observation and not an attempt to get into any arguments over warming or anything else for that matter.)
What you're confusing here is the
weather with the
climate. Weather cannot be predicted with accuracy 100 years in the future, but the general climate, the average temperature, can be. It
is solid fact, at least as best as we understand climatology today. Everything we know about carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas and the historical atmosphere -- which we can observe directly through such means as ice cores from the Antarctic -- points to anthropogenic climate change. This isn't a guess, this is an analysis.
And quite honestly, we
need to panic, at least a little. Do you know what happens to us if the deniers are wrong and we follow their advice?
We
die. As a
species. Humanity goes
extinct, because we can't evolve fast enough to adapt to the new environment, or because the food chain collapses. And nothing out there is going to stop that from happening. If we wreck this planet, we go with it.
And what's so horrible about the advice of the climate scientists who say we need to back off of fossil fuels, develop renewable and cleaner energy sources, think more about our impact upon this planet? Do your children not deserve a cleaner planet than the one we have now?
I guess my general question would be…………why would I be considered a fool for seeing purpose and design in things around me from electrons to planets and moons, plants and animals, water cycle, ocean currents, etc……………….by folks who find it superior to believe that all things evolved from a one celled organism that somehow sparked to life? I say, we believe what you want to believe but also must be willing to live with the consequences.
If you want to say there's a purpose or design, you need to demonstrate it. You can't just declare it. And why does there need to be a purpose in the first place? We aren't the point of the universe, we're just a natural byproduct of it.
Stars died so you can be here.Why is that not amazing enough, the moreso because it's demonstrably, provably true?
