It appears you are not grasping what chaos theory is. A tiny effect (like a butterfly) can lead to different wind patterns (hurricanes!) at a much later time in the same way that my mere presence as a car driver on a roadway might lead to some other car passing through an intersection many cars behind me getting hit by a drunk driver running a red light! I.e. - Had my car not been in the queue, everybody else would have been in a slightly different place and likely a different car would have been the one getting hit (or maybe no car at all and everyone got lucky!) So in a technically causal sense, I was part of a huge chain of many causes that led to that unfortunate particular person being hit at that moment and place, but I was not “the” cause in any culpable way (like the drunk driver) that carries responsibility with it. Chaos theory assures us of that, since our foreknowledge into the future that way is impossible.
It’s that same theory that guarantees your next inhalations of air will have an adequate mixture of oxygen in them to help keep you alive - and you don’t need to worry about getting unlucky about that. So - far from God’s order excluding chaos (in the technical scientific sense) - it actually makes good use of it! Chaos has other more common and less technical meanings where yes - it is a bad thing for societal stability and is the opposite of God’s created order, which is set over and against the chaos it replaces. But that is a different (albeit related) usage of that concept. It’s still best not to confuse the two.
That was a little tongue in cheek humor which must have gone right over your head.
Cooling rates are determined by basic physics which is well understood and certainly applies to the past.
Which timeline? There are various different and conflicting genealogies in the Hebrew Bible and the intent of the genealogies wasn’t to establish historical dates. That is a modern idea.
And you still have no idea what I am talking about.
And nobody has ever said that. The butterfly effect really only applies to the computer models used to predict the weather and is one of the reasons weather forecasts are not accurate.
Which only shows YEC doesn’t understand chaos theory. Something your AI dump actually says if you had bothered to read it.
The Butterfly Effect has nothing to do with the balance of nature. And the balance of nature is not a theological concept.
This is nonsense. First of all, chaos theory has nothing to do with theology. Second, the butterfly effect is an example of God maintaining order in His Creation.
You are essentially arguing that God cannot be trusted, that He does not pay attention to His own rules. That is Loki, not Yahweh.
And there you go again, advocating for Loki rather than Yahweh!
Either God is faithful and doesn’t go around changing the rules of the game, or He is not. YEC argues for a god who is not faithful.
There’s no such thing as “butterfly theory”.
And why are you dragging in science that no one but you has brought up???
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T_aquaticus
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Read what I actually wrote:
" If all of the igneous rocks found above fossils were to have very low to undetectable levels of daughter isotopes then we would falsify an old Earth."
Even when Austin selected rocks with clear evidence of xenoliths (i.e. older rock that had not melted) he wasn’t able to find rocks with more than 1 million years worth of radioactive decay.
If the Earth is young then we shouldn’t find rocks with hundreds of millions of years worth of radioactive decay sitting above fossils. That is, unless you want to claim that the Earth was created with the appearance of age, including fossils from organisms that never lived.