Posted on 03/03/2012 1:22:50 AM PST by U-238
That sounds like a deal. Just send the invite
RSVP is important
I expect if you blink you’ll miss it. Sort of like my home town....
I will look for your invite.
There is no rational controversy that the obvious disconnection between rotational and orbital periods points to randomness rather than design. I believe I have adequately backed up that assertion with the numbers. If that is either too difficult for you to understand or if you choose to assert a position where that disconnection points to design, I cannot help you further.
And if the ratio between orbital and rotational periods were the same for every planet the way pi is constant for every circle you’d have a valid point.
I don’t assert the position that it points to design, and to my knowledge, nobody else does. It’s not evidence of either design or randomness, it’s just a simple ratio determined by the laws of physics. Now, the laws of physics that determine what the ratio is, I’d say those are evidence of design, but that’s a whole other argument.
“And if the ratio between orbital and rotational periods were the same for every planet the way pi is constant for every circle you’d have a valid point.”
That is just simplistic thinking. The ratio of the orbital and rotational periods are not all determined by as simple a formula as the ratio of a circle, but they are all determined by the constant physical laws, which can be expressed in a more complex formula. Is a more complex formula evidence of randomness?
Besides which, my original point for making the comparison to Pi, was to show that having an irrational result for the ratio of two values, was not evidence of randomness. So, simply because the ratio of the orbit to the rotation doesn’t equal 365.0 is not evidence of any kind of randomness in their correlation.
I can’t promise a ping. My memory is poor. You know, memory is the second thing to go as you get older. I forget what the first thing is...With any luck, it’ll get enough posts for you to see it, but as I said, if you blink you’ll miss it.
:^)
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