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Economics: The interplay of evolution and intelligent design

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I find it hard to fit myself into the recent controversy between "intelligent design" and evolution. As a deist, I'm persuaded that there must have been some "intelligent design" at the beginning, at the "big bang," with the constants of physics fine-tuned so that the resulting universe would teem with life and evolution....

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Dr. A.E. Edgeworth

posted 10/18/08 @ 10:42 AM EST

In response to what has been said about the "big Bang." The "big bang" is a scientific impossibility. The current theory of evolution has a multitude of scientific flaws, just the "big bang" violates two known laws of science, the first law of thermodynamics and the law of cause and affect. It is scientifically impossible to have an explosion from nothing. If you leave a state of nothingness alone long enough, guess what will happen, nothing. An explosion that creates space, time, matter, and energy is impossible.

Some have tried to postulate a "vacuum fluctuation" as the answer. A vacuum is the absense of matter, matter has to exist; a fluctuation cannot occur without energy. Supposedly it took place in a moment of time (time didn't exist yet), in a space no bigger than a dime (space didn't exist yet). When someone starts out a story "Once upon a time, long ago and far away, millions of years ago," whatever they will tell you from that point on is a made up story. Ask any second-grader what you call that.

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Brian Cohen

posted 10/21/08 @ 1:09 AM EST

Originally posted by
Dr. A.E. Edgeworth
In response to what has been said about the "big Bang." The "big bang" is a scientific impossibility. The current theory of evolution has a multitude of scientific flaws, just the "big bang" violates two known laws of science, the first law of thermodynamics and the law of cause and affect. It is scientifically impossible to have an explosion from nothing. If you leave a state of nothingness alone long enough, guess what will happen, nothing. An explosion that creates space, time, matter, and energy is impossible.

Some have tried to postulate a "vacuum fluctuation" as the answer. A vacuum is the absense of matter, matter has to exist; a fluctuation cannot occur without energy. Supposedly it took place in a moment of time (time didn't exist yet), in a space no bigger than a dime (space didn't exist yet). When someone starts out a story "Once upon a time, long ago and far away, millions of years ago," whatever they will tell you from that point on is a made up story. Ask any second-grader what you call that.

What I don't get about proponents of "Creation Science" is that they often seem to think the Big Bang has anything at all to do with the theory of evolution. They aren't even in the same field of study! This demonstrates a complete lack of comprehension of what evolution is and what science is. The theory of evolution has to do with the struggle to live and the process of natural selection, and was primarily developed during the 19th century. The theory of the Big Bang is much younger and has only had it's major body of evidence that supports it (as opposed to a "Steady-state" universe) in 1964 with the discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation, and is no way related to how life arose and became what it is right now on earth.

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Lynne D.

posted 10/20/08 @ 9:37 AM EST

There is no beginning or end of time or matter. If a 'big bang' phenomena was the start of our current universe, there was certainly something before it.

But this article is not about that at all, so don't stage that debate here. Professor McCain makes a great point about economics -- we need to strike a balance between the free market ideal and necessary control to reign in human greed.

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