Basic philosophical principles in creationism.

 

 Misconceptions:
creationist do not deny scientific observations.
Creationist are at liberty to challenge the interpretations of scientists, however,
For instance creationists believe in the existence of dinosaurs; but interprets them to be dragons.
Creationists do no deny natural selection, the difference is that they believe natural selection is limited by kinds, in others words earthworms, pineapple trees and dragonflies are not actually related,

There are many scriptures that affirm natural science in terms of God establishing natural processes."
Ecclesiastes 1:5 The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.6 The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.7 All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.8 All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun."

   In order for their to be a concept of super natural there must first emerge a concept of normal. so nature has a regular mostly predictable cycle.


Inductive fallacies)  However science as a tool for epistemology/knowlege has flaws.
Inductive fallacies are mistakes in reasoning that render an inductive argument weak or unreliable. These can be caused by a lack of evidence, biased sampling, or faulty generalization. Some of the most common inductive fallacies are hasty generalization, post hoc ergo propter hoc, and slippery slope."linked inDeductive vs Inductive Reasoning: Fallacies to Avoid - LinkedIn

We apply this to the issue determining history, History has eye-witnesses,  Modern Science has observations and experiments observed on current times.
History in terms of a strict chronology falls off around 5,000 years ago. Thus scientific speculation of the ancient past is not supported by observation prior to this.the fyrther back in time, the less accurate.  When we speak of millions, much less billions of years we lose all sense of certainty.


Regulative principle)  The only objective truth is inspired revelation. But outside of inspired revelation nothing is authoritative and is rejected if such authority is claimed.
Thus, the introduction of billions of years of history can not simply be added to the text.
the Old earth creationists have often been caught promoting a "gpd of the gaps" where miracles replace weaknesses within the big bang theory and its often tresspassing against the laws of science. However with scriptural authority there is no divine authority for such claims.  So when the big bang theory tress passes against the 1st law of thermo dynamics and then the law of gravity, and Boyle's gas law and others not only is physical science disrupted but there is no room left in the Inn for liberal christianity to provide the theory some shelter.
deuteronomy 4:2 Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you."
Exodus 31:15 Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the Lord: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.16 Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.17 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed."

First cause:  God was the first cause of all things.  For every cause there is an effect.  If the universe is an effect then it must have a cause.  It implies God is the creator of all things. but more importantly.  For the law of cause and effect to be trute. there has to be a beginning of the cause and effect system.   If there is no "first cause" of the cause and effect system then how do we know there ever was a cause and effect system?

Leibniz)  The universe is filled with ideas. If the universe is filled with ideas, what mind thought of them?

Plato, one of the fathers of philosophy, had done a lot of teaching concerning the concept of “being.” From there, he developed his “theory of forms.” This theory teaches that behind every physical thing is the idea of that thing. A good illustration is that of a dog. What makes a dog, a dog? Someone in Plato’s lifetime would have suggested that a dog

1. Can make a forceful noise from its mouth

2. Has legs, fur, two ears, two eyes, a tongue, a round nose with two nostrils, normally a tail, and

3. Swallows, digests, and exports material

The dog also sheds material: it sheds its fur. But the dog preserves its identity even if the material (its food or fur) is gone. The idea of the dog preserves its identity.

So ancient philosophers could find the idea behind the dog. We have to wonder how the ancients would have reacted to the discoveries in molecular biology. An average cell is the smallest living thing and yet it is composed of 1,000,000,000,000 parts. Within these cells, you find all sorts of tool-like molecules, including motors and factories. Then you can find them to form tissues, then muscles, then organs and systems making an organism.

Suddenly, you end up finding a vast array of ideas!

Yet, as we look at the vastness of space with its molecules and energies, we have an unfathomable amount of matter which apparently has to operate in accordance with science with no human involvement. Now, if there were zero intelligent designers, then there should be no design. Typically, we hear that these only appear designed.

But sometimes these rules get broken in ways that are obvious. In the mid 2000s, a discovery was made by cosmologists in mapping the cosmic microwave background radiation of our universe. It was so strange that cosmologists call it “The axis of evil.” They discovered a flow band of heat that was only about 5 degrees Fahrenheit wrapping itself around the universe. The band would cross the earth. That radiation anomaly seems to be aligned with the plane of our solar system. This suggests that our solar system's alignment is special in our universe. But even beyond this, physicist have also found a counterclockwise rotation of all the galaxies in the northern sector of the universe, yet somehow this rotation stops right in line with the earth’s equator. These two universal aspects of nature create an axis across the earth. \ Cosmologists in shock labeled it the axis of evil. In a supposedly purposeless universe X marked the Spot!

So if everything that we are able to observe is filled with ideas, the question is, “Who is thinking them–Who is creating them?”

The idea of the material world is intelligible. In fact, if it were not, then we would not be capable of observing reality. So if the universe is intelligible, then the universe was created, because at a point in time, all ideas are created as thoughts.

kurt Go:del

This is mathematical proof of God

Definition 1: x is God-like if and only if x has as essential properties those and only those properties which are positive

Definition 2: A is an essence of x if and only if for every property B, x has B necessarily if and only if A entails B

Definition 3: x necessarily exists if and only if every essence of x is necessarily exemplified

Axiom 1: If a property is positive, then its negation is not positive.

Axiom 2: Any property entailed by—i.e., strictly implied by—a positive property is positive

Axiom 3: The property of being God-like is positive

Axiom 4: If a property is positive, then it is necessarily positive

Axiom 5: Necessary existence is positive

Axiom 6: For any property P, if P is positive, then being necessarily P is positive.

Theorem 1: If a property is positive, then it is consistent, i.e., possibly exemplified.

Corollary 1: The property of being God-like is consistent.

Theorem 2: If something is God-like, then the property of being God-like is an essence of that thing.

Theorem 3: Necessarily, the property of being God-like is exemplified.

Given a sufficiently generous conception of properties, and granted the acceptability of the underlying modal logic, the listed theorems do follow from the axioms. (This point was argued in detail by Dana Scott, in lecture notes which circulated for many years and which were transcribed in Sobel 1987 and published in Sobel 2004. It is also made by Sobel, Anderson, and Adams.) So, criticisms of the argument are bound to focus on the axioms, or on the other assumptions which are required in order to construct the proof." https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ontological-arguments/#GodOntArg

Typically this argument has been portayed very technically, hard to understand and attempting to prove God exists entirely on it's own.  However, what is unique which Go'del has done is by showing the argument in mathematic context, we see that the existence of God is mathematically valid and therefore proven to be a rational concept.


History is the best at history)
Historical science is speculations and estimations.  Experiments can only be done in the present but not in th epast. So we never know all the variables going on at the time in the past.
History however takes in the witnesses of the past and then resolves the testimony,
World history in the strict sense is "younger"  than even that of the young earth Bible.
The starting point according to the ancients is a creator God.(I have a list of over 36 versions of a Creator God from every continent.)
https://biblesmack.blogspot.com/2020/03/the-historical-case-for-creator.html

The evidence of the historical record is the bedrock of all sciences concerning the past.

Paradise Lost)  When God said the world was "very good"  it was not a cursed realm that we interact with today.  People and animals were fed abundant food and breathed abundant oxygen, with out fear of predators in terrain that was relatively safe and ideal.
Adaptation from salt water to fresh water or vegatarian to carnivore or large to small are all possible adaptations within the kinds.
Fossil evidence shows us species in the furthest corridor having complete biosystems with nothing unformed.


Geo-centrism) The earth has a unique position in our universe.traditionally  the universe revolved around the earth.  Most recent young earth creationists will just claim centrism with the milky way galaxy.
Modern popular science indoctrinates us with a an utterly ignorant axiom.
That is the doctrine that there is no center of the universe.
To deny a center to everything is a denial of geometry and then space.

Maturity) God has by definition unlimited power and unlimited knowledge among other attributes. Thus there is no condition limiting God from creating a fully functional universe.  In fact the challenge, of ancient days was why did God wait for six days to finish creation.
The assumption of a natural universe creating itslf from nothing governed by scientific axioms that are unwritten for billions of years is both speculative and irrational.
However science has uncovered dozens if not hundreds of scientific processes which left alone contradict the long age dating interpretations. thus leaving the uniformitarian assumption completly debunked. 

Catastrophism:
Typically when we make the assumptions of age we base this on deterioration.  But deterioration does not necessarily measure time.
There are a minority of people out in the world that appears around 30yrs of age, yet in reality they are around 70,  yet there are people who appear as if they were 70 yrs old who are in their 30's this is due to health issues. The universe has had many a catastrophe.  The damage of catastrophes are most often interpretted in terms of ages.

2nd law of thermodynamics:  All the universe energy is running down,  This is oposite of the progressive viewpoint of evolution.  The idea of the billions yr old universe is unsustainable because the universe would have collapsed by now. We do not have a reason for the big bang to happen even if the principle formed out of nothing it has to defy the law of gravity.  as well as the conservation of matter .  It also defies Boyle's Gas Laws.  creation has to be created and it has to be intentional.

The bible is scientifically accurate but not scientifically articulated
Functional language: animals are not categorized in a way to make them appear related.  Yet in the the bible their classifications are according to their function.
So bats are counted as fowls, because they are flying animals.  this is more relevant to life.  but our modern day evolutionary family tree starts with the assumption of relation.  The fact that we can't "make everything fit" tells us that it is useless to categorize life forms that way.


Fallacies of evolutionists) It has become quite obvious that "everybody thinks this way" has become the major selling point
However, they ignore the political and social pressures involved



Circular logic)  Evolution is intellectually established on paleontology/fossils which are dated according to the rocklayers and rock layers which are dated upon the fossils.  other methods are recorded if they are on in harmony with these assumptions.  So we are dealing with circular reason and have no true observations before history.  Even our knowledge of archaeology and anthrolopology are based upon the observations of history.  thus the epistemic knowledge of prehistory is simply a house of cards. 

Appeal to authority)   Evolutionists apeal to the scientitifc establishment as their authority.  However , this is not what modern science actually is.  It is supposed to be questioning authority  and even thise things which are "proven" are always up for criticism

Band wagon) Evolutionists tend to place confidence in the number of adherence, even though evolutioni is often propagated on compulsion either in academics or as part of government law in the case of communism.  This goes along with the pn "If everyone jumped off the brooklyn bridge would you?