jgpo@iwu1c.UUCP (10/18/83)
>From an announcement of a Creation "Science" seminar: > Are you aware that the rapidly decreasing speed of light may change > what scientists believe to be the estimated age of the earth? That's a new one on me. I was always under the impression that `c' was just about the *only* thing we could count on. Anybody know where they dug up this little tidbit? Is there any experimental evidence? Or is this just an example of the logical fallacy of "complex question," akin to "are you still beating your wife?"
esj@ihuxl.UUCP (J. Johnson) (10/18/83)
The speed of light "leveled off about 1960" ?! Wanna buy some snake oil? Jeff "You've got your beliefs & I have mine" Johnson
dave@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Sherman) (10/20/83)
I have heard the view expressed that the speed of light, which is the
only constant in the world, was the first thing to be created (kinda
makes sense). The well-known "Let there be light" (y'hi or) was the
closest that ancient Hebrew could come to expressing "Let there be
a constant representing the speed of light in a vacuum".
Dave Sherman
Toronto
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{cornell,decvax,ihnp4,linus,utzoo,uw-beaver}!utcsrgv!lsuc!davesmb@ulysses.UUCP (10/22/83)
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. A religious person is devout in the sense that he has no doubt of the significance of those super-personal objects and goals which neither require nor are capable of rational foundation. Albert Einstein, as quoted in "Subtle is the Lord: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein", by Abraham Pais.
speaker@umcp-cs.UUCP (10/26/83)
In other words, you're saying that God is going to rain fire and brimstone down on every net site in the world to prevent something that most Americans cherish as a God-given right... the freedom to speak in public. Note also, that God was willing to spare ALL the residents of the famed sinfull cities if Lot could find just 10 honest men who would believe. Well, why can't YOU, mister critic, extend the same kind of mercy to the net? In fact the residents of Sodom and Gomorah commited a multitude of sins... many of them very subtle. Like the terrible crime of not extending the hospitality of one's household to others. Our present culture seems to have a fixation on the idea that "sin" could only mean ONE THING... (gasp) S. E. X. As for Leviticus... if you require us to adhere to just ONE of the Levitican laws... then you'd better require them ALL. After all, this is the word of God isn't it? Read Leviticus lately? I doubt even the most orthodox Jew could satisfy everything required here. -- - Speaker speaker@umcp-cs speaker.umcp-cs@CSnet-Relay