Creation vs. Evolution

[Soggy]

How so? Please don't just conclude without giving an explanation or reason?

You claimed that you had a theory. Is your 'theory' testable and falsifiable? Those are two required conditions for a scientific theory.

 

[Midnight Star]

Hopefully they don't bite!

I hope they don't either, but i'm thinking along the lines of ... yes they do. I was surprised to see a seal bite a diver, a baby one at that! That one caught me by surprise.

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Mike.

 

[Soggy]

Nice try, chief.

The Law of Gravity is the effect. Apples fall from trees.

The Theory of Gravity explains the phenomenon.

Thass (or someone with a scientific background)...can you please correct my understanding here. I think I'm on the right track, but I'm pretty sure I have something wrong.

 

[Thalassamania]

I've done a lot of diving with sea otters and seals and been bit by both.

Isaac Newton wrote his Principia (1687), hypothesizing an inverse-square relationship for gravity: "I deduced that the forces which keep the planets in their orbs must be reciprocally as the squares of their distances from the centers about which they revolve; and thereby compared the force requisite to keep the Moon in her orb with the force of gravity at the surface of the Earth; and found them answer pretty nearly." Over time and trial this first became "Newton's Theory of Universal Gravitation," and later "Newton's Theory of Universal Gravitation." Just when, where and why I'm not sure.

Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New 'Intelligent Falling' Theory

 

[Soggy]

I hope they don't either, but i'm thinking along the lines of ... yes they do. I was surprised to see a seal bite a diver, a baby one at that! That one caught me by surprise.

One of the local charter captains (and a friend of mine) had quite an experience with a seal on the Empress of Ireland and captured it all on video. The huge male seal was following him in and out of the wreck, chewing on his fins, and generally exhibiting really playful behavior. He kept playing until he noticed the gigantic teeth and then started realizing that this was a wild animal and could really put a world of hurt on him!

We used to have a charter than ran seal dives off of NH that were a blast, but alas he went out of business. My one dive with him was very fun, though. Got to see a bunch of seals close up.

 

[Bryan]

I've done a lot of diving with sea otters and seals and been bit by both.

Were they just playing, or attacking when you were bit?

 

[Soggy]

I've done a lot of diving with sea otters and seals and been bit by both.

Ouch. I've only been maimed by a lobster or two. I learned to never clip the catch bag to yourself while swimming. My testicles had a very close call....there was a welt on my leg for three weeks only about an inch to the left.

Isn't this diving talk a bit off topic?

 

[Midnight Star]

You claimed that you had a theory. Is your 'theory' testable and falsifiable? Those are two required conditions for a scientific theory.

Partially, I believe so. But again, all conclusions are based on observing and quantifying the known, sometimes based solely on experience, and my "theory" or hypothesis does envelope the unknown; that which can't be proven until it has transpired. In a way, much like God is for many. Some see and observe the connections we have one with another (intersting how thought transcend time and space), and believe that in that state of being makes them god, since they see no unknown beyond the moment or themselves God must not exist. As with most of my posts, i'm conjecturing that perhaps, there something in the unknown that does truely govern and influence what weve come to call the known, even ourselves, and that something is God himself.

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Mike.

 

[Soggy]

Were they just playing, or attacking when you were bit?

He was having a theological debate with them. Otters don't like being told that they evolved from single-celled organisms. Very ornery those otters are.

 

[Bryan]

He was having a theological debate with them. Otters don't like being told that they evolved from single-celled organisms. Very ornery those otters are.

LOL! Well I otter...