Posted on 01/07/2002 8:19:37 AM PST by dead
Your concept of God is extremely limited.
The author could say that any ETI who can't convince you he's God is not sufficiently advanced, so the original assertion must be true (can't be false).
Exactly my point-- your language, your math, and your science aren't up to a true definition of natural phenomenon. If they were you would understand that a blade of grass is the antithesis of unstable.
I know this is true because I have never seen nor read of an orbital electron breakdown in grass. Therefore, its not the grass that is unstable but the scientific model attemping to define it.
Anyway, trick questions are only tricky for those who think in certain ways. There are different ways of perceiving the universe. And my perception is, ET is just another created being.
Here's your chance though Mr Hoffman--is math invented or discovered, and why?
The sky is blue.
One of your unstated premises is revealed in your use of the singular math, contrasted with maths. There are many mathematics related only by their common root in logic. For example, the math (probably better calculus) of RAMANUJAN. As I recall he, an untutored Hindu, invented a complete calculus of partitioning. Its utility was not recognized until computer technology was quite mature.
Another 'for instance' is statistics. Here lies the frustration that makes me say...
The conspiracy of ignorance masquerades as common sense.
My +4 sd whatever you want to call it excludes me from the vast conspiracy of ignorance. I am solely responsible for my errors.
Maybe early on, but later ... yuck!
Heinlein's later novels demonstrated that: he had an obsession with breakfast; was rather intrigued with the idea of incest (e.g., Number of the Beast; that he had extreme difficulties putting together a rational plot line (e.g., Friday).
Personally, I think he was a pathetic person writing pathetic books. Most of his characters were so supremely superhuman that the can only reflect a despair over his own physical disabilities.
I hope that the thought I gave to my response to The Rock isn't spilled on sterile ground.
The conspiracy of ignorance masquerades as common sense.
"No discovery made by science can deny the existence of God." Salvador Dali
Although it was always Dali's paintings I liked best about him I was impressed by the fact that he drew the double helix of DNA a few years before science discovered it.
However, a blade of grass is not unstable.
I was thinking about that the other night-- walking on water, raising the dead, the resurrection...
Why didn't he just write "Jesus was here", in bold type, across the face of the moon? I think that would of done it.
If you're going to do miracles, go for something big and indisputable I say.
Yes, it is. But tell me, what does blue look like?
For what it's worth I think you're the #1 conehead in that conspiracy you're so fond of.
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