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To support his creation science view regarding the divine origin of genetic programs, Dr. Walt Brown cites the work of David Abel and Professor Jack Trevors who wrote the following:
 
To support his creation science view regarding the divine origin of genetic programs, Dr. Walt Brown cites the work of David Abel and Professor Jack Trevors who wrote the following:
 
{{cquote|No matter how many "bits" of possible combinations it has, there is no reason to call it "information" if it doesn't at least have the potential of producing something useful. What kind of information produces function? In computer science, we call it a "program." Another name for computer software is an "algorithm." No man-made program comes close to the technical brilliance of even Mycoplasmal genetic algorithms. Mycoplasmas are the simplest known organism with the smallest known genome, to date. How was its genome and other living organisms' genomes programmed? - David L. Abel and Jack T. Trevors, “Three Subsets of Sequence Complexity and Their Relevance to Biopolymeric Information,” Theoretical Biology & Medical Modelling, Vol. 2, 11 August 2005, page 8<ref>http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/ReferencesandNotes17.html#wp1467742</ref><ref>http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1208958</ref>}}
 
{{cquote|No matter how many "bits" of possible combinations it has, there is no reason to call it "information" if it doesn't at least have the potential of producing something useful. What kind of information produces function? In computer science, we call it a "program." Another name for computer software is an "algorithm." No man-made program comes close to the technical brilliance of even Mycoplasmal genetic algorithms. Mycoplasmas are the simplest known organism with the smallest known genome, to date. How was its genome and other living organisms' genomes programmed? - David L. Abel and Jack T. Trevors, “Three Subsets of Sequence Complexity and Their Relevance to Biopolymeric Information,” Theoretical Biology & Medical Modelling, Vol. 2, 11 August 2005, page 8<ref>http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/ReferencesandNotes17.html#wp1467742</ref><ref>http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1208958</ref>}}
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How to know if you are a extreme conservative:
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• You gain all of your knowledge from this site, and seriously believe all of it.
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• You don't think this site is close-minded, racial, unintelligent junk
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• You're "Pro life" and support the Death Penalty.
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• You think cutting Education is better for America's children.
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• You think everybody on welfare are lazy people who don't work.
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• You rant and rave about the evils of drugs... unless that drug happens to be tobacco.
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• You adore employment ("Workfare")... but if a company owner downsizes thousands of jobs for money they don't need, that's okay because he should be able to make a profit no matter what.
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• You feel, everyone was "created equal" unless that person is gay.
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• You find humor in saying "Algore" and "Klinton"
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• You think anything left of Richard Nixon is communism.
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• You think Hillary Rhodam-Clinton is a flaming, anti-christ-like, communist wench. • You try to convince people God is a capitalist.
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• You believe welfare money should not go to the poor but to rich people.
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• You think workers should be paid whatever their employers want. No matter what the situation. • You think the media is led by those "liberal" corporate owners.
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• You think everyone in America should be speaking English, like it or not.
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• You love the Second amendment to death, but don't mind exceptions to the first and fourth amendment.
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• You endorse free speech/religion to further Christianity but ignore freedom from government enforced religion.
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• You scream about all that awful filth on television, then go wave a picture of an aborted fetus in front of a school or refer to the Starr Report constantly.
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• You always blame all minority problems on the minority with the problem.
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• You are convinced Dan Quayle is a very intelligent person.
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• You actually care whether or not Clinton "inhaled"
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• You think women only support abortions for selfish reasons.
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• You Insist people pay horribly for tax increases, but turn a deaf ear to the people that get hurt from tax cuts. • You compare Al Gore to the unabomber .
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• You think democrats are the only ones who are slippery when it comes to campaign money.
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• You think democrats are the only ones demonizing the opponent come election campaigns.
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• You think that because liberals don't like war they hate the people fighting them. • You prefer to argue with labels instead of facts and ideas.
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• You go ballistic whenever somebody uses the word "racist" in any context other than to describe affirmative action.
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• You actually believe that there is no sexism in this country.
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• You hate hate hate hate HATE taxes, because it's really your money! Unless that tax money goes to military spending, or the drug war, or Deficit hawking, or corporate welfare, or huge prisons, or huge border patrols...
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• You pass judgment on people based on how many zeros they can put after a number one on a check. • You count your age from conception.
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• You think Rush Limbaugh is family entertainment.
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• You think G. Gordon Liddy is both sane and wise.
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• You think Ollie North is a true patriot.
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• You think Pat Robertson is a Saint
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• You think 700 Club is the best program to watch on television
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• And finally, you know you're a conservative if you don't get the point of this.
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How To Stop Being a Conservative
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Political beliefs and parties are oftentimes divided into two extreme groups: liberals and conservatives. Conservatives tend to have a bad reputation for wanting to keep the status quo and being against or resistant to change and reform. If you feel it’s time for a change with your own personal views because you don’t necessarily see things eye to eye with the existing governments, then feel free to do so.
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If you want to let go of your conservative beliefs, you can go about it slowly so that there change is gradual. Here are some tips on how to stop being a Conservative.
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•Review your political belief system. Before you decide to stop being a conservative, you need to think about the reason why. Are you simply changing to impress a person you are dating? Do you actually see that your former political belief system isn’t perfect and may be the cause of many problems? Sometimes, a change in belief may stem from being directly affected in a negative way by it. Analyze what works and what doesn’t and what aspects you need to work and improve on.
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•Allow that the other side may have a valid point. You’re not necessarily joining the enemy camp when you stop being a conservative. There is value in all things and groups, and you need to concede that the liberals may have some things right, just as your party may have some things wrong.
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•Start being more open to new ideas. Open your mind to other ways. Don’t be stuck in an existing way of doing things, simply because that’s how it’s always been done. There is nothing that is perfect, so everything can be subject to change and improvement.
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•Support a structure or group that advocates something you agree with. If you don’t necessarily want to support the entire liberal process, then at least select the ones or groups that you do agree with. For example, you may start supporting environmental causes. You may also start funding stem cell research groups or other organizations that you may not have believed in before.
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•Support educational reforms. Regardless of your political affiliation, you need to see that there needs to be improvements in the current education system as this has long term consequences on the nation. Support increased pay for teachers as well as other alternative approaches to education. Push for reforms in the tenure system so that bad teachers can be weeded out.
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•Register your change of party. When it’s time to register to vote, change your affiliation to Democrat or Liberal. If you don’t want to go that extreme, you can always choose to go Independent.
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Understand that just because you have stopped being a conservative, doesn’t mean that you have junked all the traditions and systems of the old system. Being a responsible and mature individual means being able to weigh things rationally and seeing the merit in all things. Things don’t have to be black and white for you. If you feel that there is still value in the conservative way, you don’t necessarily have to forgo it. Simply adapt what you think is best and don’t let labels determine who you are.
  
 
== Creationist video evangelism  ==
 
== Creationist video evangelism  ==

Revision as of 20:43, February 20, 2011

Creation science is science which sets out to show that supernatural creation of the material universe by God is consistent and compatible with the available scientific evidence. Most advocates of creation science believe the earth is approximately 6,000 years old. In addition, scientists in the discipline of creation science state that the first law of thermodynamics and second law of thermodynamics argue against an eternal universe. They also claim that these laws point to the universe being created by God.[1][2][3] Creation scientists also assert that naturalistic processes alone cannot account for the origin of life and that the theory of evolution cannot account for the various kinds of animals and plants. Both evolutionary scientists and young earth creation scientists believe that speciation occurs; however, young earth creation scientists state that speciation generally occurs at a much faster rate than evolutionists believe is the case.[4]

Creation Science and Genetic Programs and Biological Information

Main article: Intelligent design
Dr. Werner Gitt

Scientists in the area of creation science and intelligent design advocates state the genetic code, genetic programs, and biological information argue for an intelligent cause in regards to the origins question.[5][6][7]

Dr. Werner Gitt, former director and Professor of Information Systems at the prestigious German Federal Institute of Physics and Technology (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt), wrote that human beings are the most complex information processing systems on earth. Dr. Gitt estimated that the human body processes thousands of times more information than all the world's libraries contain.[8]

Dr. Gitt has written several points regarding the origin of biological information:

  1. In his work In the Beginning Was Information Dr. Gitt stated that “There is no known law of nature, no known process and no known sequence of events which can cause information to originate by itself in matter.”[9]
  2. Dr. Gitt argued that the density and complexity of DNA information is millions of times larger than mankind's current technology and this means a supremely intelligent being was the author of this information.[10] Similarly, Dr. Stephen C. Meyer in his 1996 essay The Origin of Life and the Death of Materialism, wrote that "the information storage density of DNA, thanks in part to nucleosome spooling, is several trillion times that of our most advanced computer chips.[11]
  3. Gitt stated that the author of the information encoded into the DNA molecule, who constructed the molecular biomachines to encode, decode and run the cells was supremely intelligent.[12]
  4. Dr. Gitt asserted that because information is a nonmaterial entity and does not originate from matter, the author of biological information must be nonmaterial (spirit).[13]
Dr. Walt Brown

Dr. Walt Brown concurs in regards to the supernatural origin of biological information and states that the genetic material that controls the biological processes of life is coded information and that human experience tells us that codes are created only by the result of intelligence and not merely by processes of nature.[14] Dr. Brown also asserts that the "information stored in the genetic material of all life is a complex program. Therefore, it appears that an unfathomable intelligence created these genetic programs."[15]

To support his creation science view regarding the divine origin of genetic programs, Dr. Walt Brown cites the work of David Abel and Professor Jack Trevors who wrote the following:

“ No matter how many "bits" of possible combinations it has, there is no reason to call it "information" if it doesn't at least have the potential of producing something useful. What kind of information produces function? In computer science, we call it a "program." Another name for computer software is an "algorithm." No man-made program comes close to the technical brilliance of even Mycoplasmal genetic algorithms. Mycoplasmas are the simplest known organism with the smallest known genome, to date. How was its genome and other living organisms' genomes programmed? - David L. Abel and Jack T. Trevors, “Three Subsets of Sequence Complexity and Their Relevance to Biopolymeric Information,” Theoretical Biology & Medical Modelling, Vol. 2, 11 August 2005, page 8[16][17] ”

How to know if you are a extreme conservative:

• You gain all of your knowledge from this site, and seriously believe all of it.

• You don't think this site is close-minded, racial, unintelligent junk

• You're "Pro life" and support the Death Penalty.

• You think cutting Education is better for America's children.

• You think everybody on welfare are lazy people who don't work.

• You rant and rave about the evils of drugs... unless that drug happens to be tobacco.

• You adore employment ("Workfare")... but if a company owner downsizes thousands of jobs for money they don't need, that's okay because he should be able to make a profit no matter what.

• You feel, everyone was "created equal" unless that person is gay.

• You find humor in saying "Algore" and "Klinton"

• You think anything left of Richard Nixon is communism.

• You think Hillary Rhodam-Clinton is a flaming, anti-christ-like, communist wench. • You try to convince people God is a capitalist.

• You believe welfare money should not go to the poor but to rich people.

• You think workers should be paid whatever their employers want. No matter what the situation. • You think the media is led by those "liberal" corporate owners.

• You think everyone in America should be speaking English, like it or not.

• You love the Second amendment to death, but don't mind exceptions to the first and fourth amendment.

• You endorse free speech/religion to further Christianity but ignore freedom from government enforced religion.

• You scream about all that awful filth on television, then go wave a picture of an aborted fetus in front of a school or refer to the Starr Report constantly.

• You always blame all minority problems on the minority with the problem.

• You are convinced Dan Quayle is a very intelligent person.

• You actually care whether or not Clinton "inhaled"

• You think women only support abortions for selfish reasons.

• You Insist people pay horribly for tax increases, but turn a deaf ear to the people that get hurt from tax cuts. • You compare Al Gore to the unabomber .

• You think democrats are the only ones who are slippery when it comes to campaign money.

• You think democrats are the only ones demonizing the opponent come election campaigns.

• You think that because liberals don't like war they hate the people fighting them. • You prefer to argue with labels instead of facts and ideas.

• You go ballistic whenever somebody uses the word "racist" in any context other than to describe affirmative action.

• You actually believe that there is no sexism in this country.

• You hate hate hate hate HATE taxes, because it's really your money! Unless that tax money goes to military spending, or the drug war, or Deficit hawking, or corporate welfare, or huge prisons, or huge border patrols...

• You pass judgment on people based on how many zeros they can put after a number one on a check. • You count your age from conception.

• You think Rush Limbaugh is family entertainment.

• You think G. Gordon Liddy is both sane and wise.

• You think Ollie North is a true patriot.

• You think Pat Robertson is a Saint

• You think 700 Club is the best program to watch on television

• And finally, you know you're a conservative if you don't get the point of this.


How To Stop Being a Conservative

Political beliefs and parties are oftentimes divided into two extreme groups: liberals and conservatives. Conservatives tend to have a bad reputation for wanting to keep the status quo and being against or resistant to change and reform. If you feel it’s time for a change with your own personal views because you don’t necessarily see things eye to eye with the existing governments, then feel free to do so.

If you want to let go of your conservative beliefs, you can go about it slowly so that there change is gradual. Here are some tips on how to stop being a Conservative.

•Review your political belief system. Before you decide to stop being a conservative, you need to think about the reason why. Are you simply changing to impress a person you are dating? Do you actually see that your former political belief system isn’t perfect and may be the cause of many problems? Sometimes, a change in belief may stem from being directly affected in a negative way by it. Analyze what works and what doesn’t and what aspects you need to work and improve on.

•Allow that the other side may have a valid point. You’re not necessarily joining the enemy camp when you stop being a conservative. There is value in all things and groups, and you need to concede that the liberals may have some things right, just as your party may have some things wrong.

•Start being more open to new ideas. Open your mind to other ways. Don’t be stuck in an existing way of doing things, simply because that’s how it’s always been done. There is nothing that is perfect, so everything can be subject to change and improvement.

•Support a structure or group that advocates something you agree with. If you don’t necessarily want to support the entire liberal process, then at least select the ones or groups that you do agree with. For example, you may start supporting environmental causes. You may also start funding stem cell research groups or other organizations that you may not have believed in before.

•Support educational reforms. Regardless of your political affiliation, you need to see that there needs to be improvements in the current education system as this has long term consequences on the nation. Support increased pay for teachers as well as other alternative approaches to education. Push for reforms in the tenure system so that bad teachers can be weeded out.

•Register your change of party. When it’s time to register to vote, change your affiliation to Democrat or Liberal. If you don’t want to go that extreme, you can always choose to go Independent.

Understand that just because you have stopped being a conservative, doesn’t mean that you have junked all the traditions and systems of the old system. Being a responsible and mature individual means being able to weigh things rationally and seeing the merit in all things. Things don’t have to be black and white for you. If you feel that there is still value in the conservative way, you don’t necessarily have to forgo it. Simply adapt what you think is best and don’t let labels determine who you are.

Creationist video evangelism

Campus Crusade for Christ International (CCCI) is one of the world's largest evangelism organizations within Christendom and has over 25,000 full time missionaries. In 2006, Alan Beeber of CCCI predicted that internet evangelism will result in more conversion that all other forms of evangelism for CCCI combined.[18]

YouTube is a popular online video sharing site that provides a method distributing Christian/creationist videos across the world. The YouTube search engine is the second largest search engine in the world.[19]There is a widespread problem with atheist cyberbullying on YouTube toward Christian and creationist YouTube channels. CreationWiki has developed a web page entitled Creationist YouTube video designed to show creationists how to thwart atheist/evolutionist cyberbullies. Also, one popular Christian YouTube channel, shockofgod, was shut down several times by atheist cyberbullying through false reports but he was able to thwart their cyberbullying using some effective tactics.[20] These false reports are not isolated incidents, many atheists will try this deceitful tactic to block out creation science.

Creation Science and the Evolutionary Science Community

Creation science is not considered science by close-minded atheistic liberal scientists who reject the proven thruth diligently arrived at through faith and logic. Liberals reject Creation Science with the spurious pretext that it cannot be disproved and therefore cannot be considered "science".[21] [22] However, Dr. Walt Brown argues that the field of creation science is scientific[23] and the evolutionists' objections to creation science are due to their worldviews and preconceptions, rather than on the basis of scientific evidence or the scientific validity of the idea.[24] Also, Karl Popper, a leading philosopher of science and originator of falsifiability as a criterion of demarcation of science from nonscience,[25] stated that Darwinism is "not a testable scientific theory, but a metaphysical research programme."[26] Michael Ruse, a leading Darwinist and philosopher of science, conditionally acknowledged Popper's statement: "Since making this claim, Popper himself has modified his position somewhat; but, disclaimers aside, I suspect that even now he does not really believe that Darwinism in its modern form is genuinely falsifiable."[27]

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Creation vs. evolution
Evolution
Hoaxes, Controversies, and Debates
Creation science and Creationism

See Also

External Links

Notes and References

  1. ↑ Evidences for God From Space—Laws of Science
  2. ↑ Thompson, Bert, So Long, Eternal Universe; Hello Beginning, Hello End!, 2001 (Apologetics Press)
  3. ↑ http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/AstroPhysicalSciences14.html
  4. ↑ Creation Ministries International, Speciation: Questions and Answers
  5. ↑ http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/LifeSciences18.html
  6. ↑ http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/faq/infotheory.asp
  7. ↑ http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&id=118
  8. ↑ http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/ReferencesandNotes17.html
  9. ↑ http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/ReferencesandNotes17.html#wp1484094
  10. ↑ http://www.gnmagazine.org/issues/gn58/tinycode_dna.htm
  11. ↑ http://www.arn.org/docs/meyer/sm_origins.htm
  12. ↑ http://www.gnmagazine.org/issues/gn58/tinycode_dna.htm
  13. ↑ http://www.gnmagazine.org/issues/gn58/tinycode_dna.htm
  14. ↑ http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/LifeSciences18.html
  15. ↑ http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/LifeSciences18.html
  16. ↑ http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/ReferencesandNotes17.html#wp1467742
  17. ↑ http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1208958
  18. ↑ http://www.lausanneworldpulse.com/pdf/issues/LWP0206.pdf
  19. ↑ http://www.tgdaily.com/trendwatch-features/39777-youtube-surpasses-yahoo-as-world%E2%80%99s-2-search-engine
  20. ↑ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kax-zAJxi-U
  21. ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/19991013122341/http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/evolutionviews990816.html
  22. ↑ http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/FAQ13.html#wp2727001
  23. ↑ http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/FAQ13.html#wp2727001
  24. ↑ http://www.answersingenesis.org/news/scientific_american.asp
  25. ↑
  26. ↑ http://members.iinet.net.au/~sejones/PoE/pe05scnc.html
  27. ↑ http://members.iinet.net.au/~sejones/PoE/pe05scnc.html
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