Posted on 11/13/2006 7:34:14 PM PST by betty boop
Congrats to you both, looks interesting.
"The unitarians got their start in the early 1700's mainly at the behest of the Sir Issac Newton who was an avowed arian."
Equally hilarious. You clearly know nothing of the Unitarian Church (such as it is).
Also, Newton was so "avowed" that his "Arian" writing was kept completely secret in his lifetime.
Sheesh again.
(I hope this book, which sounds pretty dodgey) isn't based on similar scholarship.
God grant you many years in peace health and happiness!
Thank you oh so very much for your encouragements! And congratulations on your manuscript and the one to come!!!
So what are your plans for '08? :)
Thank you for bumping by!
Thank you oh so very much, Knitting!
Agreed. LaPlace was really describing God's perspective, not man's, although he might not have articulated it that way. OTOH, the logical positivists reenact the Sin of Adam over and over--eating from tree of the knowledge of good and evil to become wise, like God, with predictably tragic results. Having been expelled from the garden, mankind seems to spend much of its time trying to create Hell on Earth when, irony of ironies, Adam's sin is already redeemed.
His statement that (freely paraphrasing) "seeing everything, and having the intellect to analyze the data, allows for knowledge of the future" brings up an interesting difficulty that I recalled today, while reviewing an orbital mechanics text.
The immediate context was that, while the motion of a body subject to central body gravitation is completely solveable, an "imposed non-two-body acceleration ... will render the new system [of equations] insolvable." (Emphasis mine.)
The author's essential point is that imposing perturbations other than gravity leaves us with a trajectory problem having more unknowns than parameters to explain the motion in a closed-form way. (This explains why there's no solution to the n-body problem, for example.)
It's an interesting lesson on the limitations of mathematics as they apply to the real world. At best, Laplace's statement boils down to a statement of perfect measurement of an immense number of initial conditions; coupled with zero-error numerical prediction methods -- neither of which are attainable in the real world.
At any rate, we'll let the readers decide whether or not we approached all the issues of science, faith and culture, appropriately.
BTW, there is also zero evidence that Mark Twain was ever a Unitarian. Nor Lincoln, if that is the claim that crackpot site is making.
Where to get copy??? I'm writing a novel, and have a history of Yucca Mountain. Jeff Head is out there. Perhaps a writers guild is in order.
Agreed. LaPlace was really describing God's perspective, not man's, although he might not have articulated it that way. OTOH, the logical positivists reenact the Sin of Adam over and over--eating from tree of the knowledge of good and evil to become wise, like God, with predictably tragic results. Having been expelled from the garden, mankind seems to spend much of its time trying to create Hell on Earth when, irony of ironies, Adam's sin is already redeemed.
I rarely post to evo/crevo threads because in my early years on FR it was such an unpleasant experience. But I have followed your posts, which have been fascinating and thought-provoking. And I have always admired your unflagging courtesy to all in what generally looks like no-holds-barred gladiatorial combat, to return to the Rome theme.
I'll read this book.
Thanks for the ping.
I very rarely post on the crevo threads (it's been years) because the creationist posters have sincere religious beliefs which I don't wish to offend at all. I genuinely respect their beliefs -- they were the beliefs of my forefathers. I used to read the science articles Patrick Henry pinged us to but stayed clear of the arguments downthread. I doubt if the arguments changed anybody's mind anyway.
Recent events on FR have left a chill in the air for some of us scientifically trained political conservatives. Although none of the rancour and allegations were directed at me personally, I felt that my core values and scientific integrity had been impugned. It was like a kick in the gut from a place I respect.
Hopefully you can understand that and why people have left.
Let us know when 'Timothy,' eclectic references and all is available on Amazon.
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