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To: Dan(9698)

Another observation on simulations.

In ancient Egypt there was a debate on wheather the sun goes around the earth or is the center of the universe.

The guys who claimed the sun went around the earth won the argument. It went so far that a scientist constructed a mechanical model that simulated the movement of the universe, and even went so far as to show the retrograde of planets (where they appear to go backward in part of their orbits).

That belief system was taught by all the scholors and even the church clear up until the invention of the telescope.

Even then the church required Galaleo to come do the church and confess his error on pain of death. He did that so he wouldnt be execuited.

That was a period of 1500 years.

Now students aren't execuited for Heresy, they are just flunked.


880 posted on 12/30/2005 11:42:58 AM PST by Dan(9698)
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To: Dan(9698)
"The guys who claimed the sun went around the earth won the argument. It went so far that a scientist constructed a mechanical model that simulated the movement of the universe, and even went so far as to show the retrograde of planets (where they appear to go backward in part of their orbits).

In your mind this automatically invalidates all other scientific models, despite the fact our level of knowledge and our ability to measure phenomena is magnitudes above what it was back then?

As for your contention that evolution is based on faith, this is simply a manifestation of your fear that the evolutionists are correct and you not only share a common ancestor with apes but are behaviorally similar. There is a huge difference between you faith in God and the Bible and our acceptance of evolution as the best scientific explanation for the variation of life on Earth. That difference is the scientifically tested and accepted physical evidence for the process of evolution and the theory that explains it.

No matter how many times you scream at the top of your lungs, or fingers in this case, that evolution is nothing but speculation and therefore faith, it will not change the amount or validity of the tested evidence that has been collected over the last 150 years. So scream on!

915 posted on 12/30/2005 3:59:23 PM PST by b_sharp (Science adjusts theories to fit evidence, creationism distorts evidence to fit the Bible.)
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