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What predictions does Creationism lead to?
What are some examples of observations that creationism leads to? I am attempting to analyze creationism as a scientific theory, but I can't come up with any examples of predictions that creationism leads us to make.
Some example predictions of other theories are:
Newtonian Physics: If I release a ball in midair, it will fall to the ground.
Chemistry: If I heat a sample of water to 100 degrees, it will boil.
Electromagnetism: If I send an electron through a magnetic field it will curve.
Would the following be considered a hypothesis stemming from creationism?:
No species will emerge in the future that do not exist today.
@messenger: That's not a prediction, that's a tautology, and that's really where I'm having trouble. I can't think of any predictions creationism makes that aren't tautologies.
Ultimately I'm trying to show why creationism does or does not have the attribute of independent testability - that its predictions are able to be verified by tests that do not inherently require the theory to be true. I can't really do this without first coming up with some predictions to analyze.
@barry: would a more appropriate prediction then be "no species will exist in the future that is physically distinct from all species that exist today" ?
13 Antworten
- Barry WLv 6vor 1 JahrzehntBeste Antwort
On the contrary, it just means that the "next" progression or step will not be physical. It might be spiritual, if we were created as more than animals, mightn't it?
So Creationism puts forward that we have a purpose, that we can know that purpose and that we can fulfill it.
So there might be new creatures...but they will come about through processes other than reproduction (physical).
- vor 1 Jahrzehnt
Creationism never makes any predictions. Creationism only presents a holy book and then spread it across the globe trying to present it as clear evidence a creator is needed. You can't ever consider creationism as a scientific because first you'll need to recreate something that's "all powerfull" and once you do that then you'll also be all powerfull. I don't think I understand the "examples of predictions that creationism lead you too part"
maybe I don't even make sense because it is 8 in the morning :x
- Anonymvor 1 Jahrzehnt
I like Barry's thought but would go in a different direction though.
Man is directly working against Darwinism by extincting species, breeding and genetic manipulation, and creating special environments that allow biological things to exist long past the point where they should become weeded out on their own (think heirloom plants or gene based diseases in humans).
Is it creationism if creatures exist or do not exist (either way) that happen as a result of intervention by 'unnatural' processes?
- Super AtheistLv 7vor 1 Jahrzehnt
The only scientific prediction Creationism has attempted to make is that in the absence of evolution's slow accumulation of small changes, some biological systems will be found that are 'irreducibly complex' - and will have had to have arisen fully-formed.
Not a single one of the candidate structures thus far has turned out to be this way, however - flagella, clotting systems et al have been shown to have simpler precursors.
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- vor 1 Jahrzehnt
It predicted the collapse of world economy. Why? Because with creationism , people don't use reason and evidence based thinking. therefore, economic collapse is a necessary result.
- Siver ChaChaLv 7vor 1 Jahrzehnt
what's funnier is they think they are DONE evolving!
I so often see "Then why aren't we evolving NOW?" asked. As if in a few generations evolution occurs.
It is lack of education as to what the term "THEORY" means in science. Mixed with a lack of education about what a hypothesis is.... married to superstition.
People who call them selves "CREATIONIST" are just using an invented term to battle SCIENCE.
It is PURE superstition
- Bob DownLv 5vor 1 Jahrzehnt
Creationism doesn't make predictions. It merely asks questions about evolution (carrying with it the implication that if evolution doesn't work then maybe creationism is true).
- Anonymvor 1 Jahrzehnt
Well, maybe that we shall never see an irreducibly complex system emerge through natural selection, but that's already been refuted.
Edit: Never mind, not really a prediction, just a fallacious argument.
- Anonymvor 1 Jahrzehnt
Creationism is not a theory It is a hypothesis.
- vor 1 Jahrzehnt
Your hypothesis is what I immediately thought of after reading your question so I say it sounds good.