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Originally Posted by Eclogite
I wish to address a single aspect of the discussion: the postulate that the globally complex inter-relationships of sediments and their contained fossils are the product of a single event.
While Shubee's first axiom, if I understand it correctly, is that quantum mechanics allows anything to happen, I feel constrained to agree with William of Ockham and to 'go for the simpler explanation'.
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Ockham's razor is a silly axiom historically. Einstein basically was following Ockham's razor when he repeatedly expressed his preference for the simplicity of determinism over the complexity of quantum theory. Einstein kept insisting on his view with the now infamous words: "God does not play dice." To this Bohr famously replied: "Einstein, stop telling God what to do."
I agree that Ockham's razor is simple but surely you don't believe that it is always true? Determinism is dead. Only an ignoramus can confidently reject quantum theory today.
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Originally Posted by Eclogite
Sedimentary rocks have a considerable number of defining properties: these include grain size, shape, angularity and sorting; cementation type and extent; matrix type and extent; structural features such as bedding planes, graded bedding, cross bedding, flute and sole marks, etc.
Extensive study has shown that these vary in relation to the environment in which the sediments are deposited.
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That sounds like a tautology to me.
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Originally Posted by Eclogite
The fudnamental dictum of geology - the present is the key to the past - is repeatedly validated.
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Where in the present do you see fantastic oil and coal deposits being created that compare in any way to the unimaginably huge and ancient coal deposits featured in the videos at Sean D. Pitman's website,
The Fossil Record?
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Originally Posted by Eclogite
The probability that this same complex interplay of environments, apparently covering billions of years of the Earth's history in a remarkably self consistent way, could actually be the result of chance happenings associated with a single event, is so vastly improbable that it merits the description impossible.
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This thread is for the purpose of demonstrating that evolutionists and geologists can only admit and reveal the obvious, that the fantastically improbable is highly unlikely, that they have no understanding of fantastic quantum improbabilities and are incapable of refuting the possibility of quantum creationism actually being correct. Thank you.
