Egret

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A continuing problem: human-generated content(github.com)
2 points by Egret 10d ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Origin – Christianity and naturalism as competing worldviews(github.com)
1 points by Egret 4mo ago|0 comments
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by Egret 5mo ago
The article states that the rotor very much evolved. But if you follow the linked evidence, various flagellar motors appear to have evolved from an original ancestor. This is exactly consistent with intelligent design and creationism. It do
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Left-Wing Social Darwinism(rechristianize.com)
2 points by Egret 5mo ago|0 comments
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by Egret 10mo ago
The probability of assembling two proteins randomly close by in spatial and temporal terms runs into Chadwick's proximity problem.
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by Egret 10mo ago
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1892545/ An upper bound probability for the RNA world hypothesis is 10^-1018. A reasonable interpretation is that the RNA world hypothesis is impossible in the real world.
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by Egret 10mo ago
I hope you are aware that the sustainable scientific enterprise we all appreciate today was birthed by Christian Europe, and relied on the faith that the universe was understandable because it was created by a rational being.
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by Egret 10mo ago
Christians and some prominent secular scientists agree that the origin of life on earth is a miracle. One group posits a Divine miracle. The other a secular miracle. Abiogenesis is foundational to the secular origins account. Before abiogen
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by Egret 10mo ago
All origins systems are underpinned by unprovable presuppositions, including atheistic origins accounts, the biblical origin account, and so on. Origins accounts have to be logically compatible with science and have explanatory power. Philo
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by Egret 10mo ago
That is broadly true, although there are creationist organisations within the Roman Catholic world. The major creationist organisations are evangelical (Protestant).
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by Egret 10mo ago
I am not going to defend every YEC. But you are using too broad a brush. Read the book and decide for yourself. We did not use chatgpt to write the book; it was part of the editing process and we checked everything from chatgpt, because, as
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by Egret 10mo ago
That is true, going outside of areas of expertise is fraught with risk. The best creationist material on radioactive dating was published by the RATE group. We include a summary of this material in an appendix of the book.
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by Egret 10mo ago
I regard the Masoretic text as generally more authoritative, so I would give an age of the earth/cosmos in calendar years of approximately 6000 years.
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by Egret 10mo ago
Be curious, and read the book.
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by Egret 10mo ago
Thanks for that comment. A very important point. Worldviews condition how we interpret evidence. In that sense they can be self reinforcing. This applies to all worldviews- atheistic, Christian, and others.
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by Egret 10mo ago
If you use a philosophical uniformitarian interpretation of the amount of process that has occurred on earth or in the cosmos, you will get a figure of hundreds of millions of years or even billions of years. We do not dispute the amount of
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Editing a young-earth creationist book with ChatGPT-5(geoff1111.github.io)
2 points by Egret 10mo ago|24 comments
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by Egret 2y ago
In medicine, for minor procedures such as blood tests or ECG, there is the notion of implied consent. Just holding out your arm for the blood test is implied consent. To refuse, you might say, I am of sound mind and I do not consent to this
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by Egret 5y ago
Here is an example using Tcl to create an SQL script using recursive common table expressions: # createSQL.tcl set increment 100000 set loop [expr {100000000 / $increment}] puts {PRAGMA journal_mode = OFF; PRAGMA synchronous = 0; PRAGM