Posted on 12/04/2013 3:17:41 PM PST by servo1969
I would suggest that putting someone to death for what they say is a fairly strong way of expressing disagreement with what that one said.
It isn’t a verbal contradiction.
As for the “Where is the body” question, one could also ask where is Peter’s or Paul’s body, or the Buddha’s body?
Buddhists normally practice cremation.
One legislature (IIRC it was Tennessee) passed a law making Pi = 3.
I think 1 Kings uses 3.
“His friends said it, indifferent sources said it, even His enemies said it”
At least as recounted by the gospels.
Normally nuts who say crazy things don’t leave much record at all of their ravings. The Unabomber was an exception.
Kings does not use 3. That value was from some clumsy English translators. The value in the Hebrew text is 3-5/12.
Hebrew fractions are all in 12ths, and the bone-head limeys couldn’t figure it out.
Don’t waste your time on this troll. I viewed several of his posts and he is all over the map on everything.
My recommendation is to let editor-surveryor have a crack at him and the troll will go back under the bridge:)
Depends on if you use the outside of the vessel or the inside. If you think they used the outside for both it is 3. If you think they used the outside for the diameter, and the inside for the circumference, and throw in a compensating factor for thickness, you can get what ever you want based on your compensating factor.
You have to properly count the value of the Hebrew characters, but they didn’t get it correct. I may not be correct either, but if you find a Pharisee Rabbi, they usually can show you how to get the numbers right.
Their value for the circumference was not complete. They quit after finding the integers, but gave up on the fractional parts.
There are original documents that evidence George Washington. Start with his commission from the Continental Congress.
But yes, all of history is suspect. That is why people who love history love to find old shipwrecks to get past the narratives that people added.
One Pharoahs went off and fought a great battle and lost. He then came back and announced that it was a great victory. That right there should make you suspect of history.
Napoleon did the same thing.
That is also why governments do things like take fingerprints, issue biometric drivers licenses, passports, and check the continuing document trail looking for things that are out of place. It is also why the Census counts people, AND makes estimates based on sampling.
I think he’s good for humor, but little else.
At that time the irrational numbers hadn’t been discovered.
The Pythagoreans had a brilliant member who proved that the square root of 2 was irrational.
They killed him as a blasphemer.
So you can’t find my errors either. That is high praise.
Of course a curved line has different asympotes at different places along its lengths.
Measure in one place, you get one slope. measure another you get another place.
That is part of the point of relativity. Newton made his measurements of the gravitational constant using a swinging weight. If you measure that at near light speed, you get a different value.
Rules based on the measured asympote will be different at different locations along the curve.
Now now, don’t fight over me.
And none of that can be falsified, now can it?
Like for people in a witness protection program for example. Right?
And just who WAS Shakespeare anyway?
You don’t need to lecture me about relativity.
I am plenty familiar with it.
So, as a creationist, I am now going to state that the laws of physics and constants CAN change, and indeed have in the past.
That is why scientists cannot disprove creationism or the Bible using science.
Of course it can be falsified. Falsifying all of it is hard.
Falsifying your old service records previous passports, old drivers licenses when copies of documents are securely retained by by the government is hard for you to do, but possible.
It is probably better than accepting everything at face value, in a world where evil men seek advantage.
And how do you know that the evidence you are investigating is genuine or authentic and that your interpretation of the evidence you are investigating accurate and unbiased?
All we can do is demonstrate the validity of the rules we know in a particular time and place.
Or we can demonstrate the invalidity of the rules we know, in which case some real science needs to happen.
Rather like Rutherford’s experiment with X ray penetration of metallic foil. that lead to about 40 years of real science.
Of course Rutherford could have just said ‘G-d moved the particles differently this time’ and shut off his brain.
Of course you don’t know. You can fool yourself. That is why science shows new findings around to see if others have different ideas.
You note the subtle distinction between a creationist and a scientist?
A creationist supports conclusions that end with “because Creation”.
A Scientist looks at facts, evidence and theory, and tries to come up with experiments that gather new facts, measurements that quantify the new evidence, and new theories that explain the facts and evidence.
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