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  • Christian Astronauts Share What Secular Scientists WON’T About Space

    09/02/2025 4:40:08 AM PDT · by daniel1212 · 256 replies
    youtube.com ^ | June, 2025 | Answers in Genesis
    My name is Joe Owen. I head up the worldwide languages ministry at Answers in Genesis.That's Charlie Duke. There were nine missions to the moon. I worked on five of them. In 1978, I became a born again Christian.I came to faith on January 19, 1988. I was selected by NASA in 1996, and I flew four times—once on the space shuttle going to the space station and then three expeditions, each about six months long.Many times, I am introduced as an astronaut, but if I were to describe myself, I certainly wouldn't call myself an astronaut, because the way...
  • The Babylonians Were Using Pythagoras’ Theorem Over 1,000 Years Before He Was Born

    08/07/2021 7:05:44 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 67 replies
    Science Focus ^ | 04th August, 2021 | Sara Rigby
    An ancient clay tablet shows that the Babylonians used Pythagorean triples to measure accurate right angles for surveying land.Students may not believe that Pythagoras’ Theorem has real-world uses, but a 3,700-year-old tablet proves that their maths teachers are right. The artifact, named Si.427, shows how ancient land surveyors used geometry to draw boundaries accurately. Discovered in central Iraq in 1894, Si.427 sat in a museum in Istanbul for over a century. Now, mathematician Dr Daniel Mansfield from the University of New South Wales, Australia, has studied the clay tablet and uncovered its meaning. “Si.427 dates from the Old Babylonian (OB)...
  • Incredible 3700-Year-Old Babylonian Clay Tablet Is World’s Oldest Example of Applied Geometry

    08/04/2021 8:55:53 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 61 replies
    https://scitechdaily.com ^ | AUGUST 4, 2021 | By UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES
    Si.427 is a hand tablet from 1900-1600 BC, created by an Old Babylonian surveyor. It’s made out of clay and the surveyor wrote on it with a stylus. Credit: Must credit UNSW Sydney ========================================================================================== A UNSW mathematician has revealed the origins of applied geometry on a 3700-year-old clay tablet that has been hiding in plain sight in a museum in Istanbul for over a century. The tablet – known as Si.427 – was discovered in the late 19th century in what is now central Iraq, but its significance was unknown until the UNSW scientist’s detective work was revealed today. Most...