Ok, I thought of this when I watched this DarkMatter2525 video the other day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_a6RjR_AHY
And, yeah, he seems to have a point, but he didn't explore that line of thinking as well as he could have.
If creationism could be true and nobody ever ate the fruit in the garden, what would some of the implications be? No death, for man or animals, but we were told 'be fruitful and multiply' before death came along. Obviously, that 'no death' rule doesn't seem to apply for plants, otherwise they couldn't have eaten anything from the garden due to having to kill the plant. Or could it? You can easily pick fruit from a tree without killing the tree. Many vegetables can also be eaten without killing the plant they came from.
Worse yet, though, is when we think about how many minute creatures would be able to survive forever. I mean, think about it: if you wind up with some kind of parasite like ringworm and you simply can't kill it, how obnoxious would that be? If the 'no death' rule extends to bacteria, it's even worse because something as simple as penicillin wouldn't work to kill the bacteria that's causing you to cough, sneeze, run a feever and be generally weak and tired.
But, then there's the other, physical limitations on such a world. We do have these laws called 'the law of conservation of mass' and 'the law of conservation of energy.' As for energy, we get plenty of energy from the sun, so something would probably be able to be worked out, but conservation of mass..... that's a different story. Fact is, the only reason life has been able to exist as long as it has is because the matter that composes living organisms is recycled. In fact, many of the atoms that inhabit my body have probably inhabited the bodies of great people in history like Cleopatra, Ghengis Khan and Alexander the Great. If nobody dies, though, and we're still supposed to 'be fruitful and multiply,' there's no recycling of living matter anymore. Where are we going to get new matter to replace all the multiplication?
Is there anything else I missed with this hole in creationism?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_a6RjR_AHY
And, yeah, he seems to have a point, but he didn't explore that line of thinking as well as he could have.
If creationism could be true and nobody ever ate the fruit in the garden, what would some of the implications be? No death, for man or animals, but we were told 'be fruitful and multiply' before death came along. Obviously, that 'no death' rule doesn't seem to apply for plants, otherwise they couldn't have eaten anything from the garden due to having to kill the plant. Or could it? You can easily pick fruit from a tree without killing the tree. Many vegetables can also be eaten without killing the plant they came from.
Worse yet, though, is when we think about how many minute creatures would be able to survive forever. I mean, think about it: if you wind up with some kind of parasite like ringworm and you simply can't kill it, how obnoxious would that be? If the 'no death' rule extends to bacteria, it's even worse because something as simple as penicillin wouldn't work to kill the bacteria that's causing you to cough, sneeze, run a feever and be generally weak and tired.
But, then there's the other, physical limitations on such a world. We do have these laws called 'the law of conservation of mass' and 'the law of conservation of energy.' As for energy, we get plenty of energy from the sun, so something would probably be able to be worked out, but conservation of mass..... that's a different story. Fact is, the only reason life has been able to exist as long as it has is because the matter that composes living organisms is recycled. In fact, many of the atoms that inhabit my body have probably inhabited the bodies of great people in history like Cleopatra, Ghengis Khan and Alexander the Great. If nobody dies, though, and we're still supposed to 'be fruitful and multiply,' there's no recycling of living matter anymore. Where are we going to get new matter to replace all the multiplication?
Is there anything else I missed with this hole in creationism?
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"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama
