Equivocation

Equivocation is the use of a phrase or word that has more than one meaning and implying that both meanings are the same.

There are, for instance, two meanings of the word, evolution. One is micro evolution: the small changes within a kind of plant or animal. Another is macro evolution: the idea that plants or animals can change from one kind to another.

The reality is that this is a very clever deception. The problem that evolutionism has is whether there are minor changes within a kind of animal or plant. The question is this: is there any evidence anywhere that random chance has ever added any information to the genetic material in any cell anywhere? The claim of evolutionism is that information is created by random chance. (Read the latest science on the subject: Without Excuse by Werner Gitt, a description of the scientific Laws of Universal Information. See also: Information Theory Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4. Here is another interesting article.) More is constantly being learned about information and about the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Evolutionists tend to hide in the weeds of the unknown with an argument from ignorance: "If you can't prove, by empirical science, that evolution is impossible, then it happened." By empirical science alone, we can only prove probabilities. The probabilities show the Big-Bang-Billions-of-Years-No-Flood-Molecules-to-Man story to be a bazaar hypothesis, a story that is so improbable that it should not be considered. However, empirical science is not a tool that can prove anything to be true or false absolutely. For absolute proof, we have revelation. (See Basic and Concise Guide to Practical, Useful Logic and Reasoning). God says that He created everything. He is the One Who enforces the laws of nature. He is the One Who will judge all of us in the end. We know that because we know Him presonally through the indwelling Presence of Jesus Christ and the moment-by-moment instruction of the Holy Spirit.

Micro evolution says that there can be variations within the instructions that are already in the gene pool. No one argues with that observable fact. Because of the many creatures that are reproducing themselves, their is a vast supply of information in the gene pool. Micro evolution refers to the small changes that result from the selections that are made from this vast supply of information. Macro evolution claims that we can add information and organization to the gene pool by random chance, which would be in direct conflict with the known and testable laws of science. Evolution has a troubling information problem. Scientists have tried to prove that micro evolution plus time equals macro evolution, but, after about 200 years of work, have been unsuccessful. Information is added to a cell by fertilization or by viruses, but that is not the creation of information and it doesn't solve the evolutionist's problem: where did the information come from?

The use of equivocation is a method by which we can fool ourselves or others.

Other examples of equivocation:
Two meanings of the word, liberal.
Two meanings of the word, science.
Two meanings of the word, logic.
Two meanings of the word, axiom.

Those who hate God find ways, through story-telling, arbitrary assumptions, and rationalizations to censor out any information that supports the existence of God.  They set up a web of rules to filter out God.  They will only accept those things that conform to Naturalism, materialism, and uniformitarianism.  Naturalism claims, with its only evidence being circular reasoning, that God does nothing.  Materialism claims that there is no God or spiritual realm.  Uniformitarianism claims that there was not creation and that there was no violent worldwide flood, as the Bible and numerous other historical accounts record.  Whatever they observe that does not conform to this complex filter is censored.  The way that it is censored can take several forms.  The ungodly may boldly proclaim that, though the data appears to support God's version and refute the version of the ungodly, yet it still must be interpreted to mean just the opposite of what it does mean.  A backup method that ungodly people use is to prophecy that in the future, science will be able to explain what they see as an anomaly.  If that fails, they will hide the data, set it aside, or lie to keep the public from knowing the truth.  The data clearly demolishes the story of the ungodly and clearly supports the reality of the Creator God, His Bible, and His abiding Presence in His people.  When confronted with the obvious, a closed-minded ungodly person says, "I can't understand it."  They are willingly ignorant because they refuse to hold God in their knowledge.  The reality is that these people, for whatever reason, don't what to know the Creator.  They don't want to truly know Jesus, their Creator.

Evolution isn't science.