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I'm not casting doubt on his intentions or his character. I have no doubt that he totally believed every syllable of what he said there. Indeed, there's no doubt at all that he did. He believed what he was taught to believe just as most Christians do. The point is, however, that his education...

I had not read the quote until now. I'm sorry, I don't mean to be insulting but it is simply nonsense. It's all a bunch of self-contradictory conclusions based on premises which all beg the question. The past does not exist nor does the future. All that exists, exists now. And even that is a...

Is there a way to increase the number of posts displayed on one page? I like to have as many as possible on one page. It makes it easier to refer back to previous posts. Also, sometimes a thread will go into turbo mode where tons of posts are made in rapid succession and its way easier (for me)...

Such changes are events. Anything that happens is an event, by definition. Thus, the broadest definition of time is... Time is the convention of language (i.e. concepts) used to convey information about the duration and sequences of events relative to other events. Even that is somewhat...

Alright, alright! I'll give you just a week or so to knock that off! :)

I know you didn't ask me but since I've done a very great deal of study on the topic, I thought I'd offer an answer to the question "What is time?"... Modern science literally defines times as "what a clock measures". They have intentionally conflated time with clocks. In actual fact, time has...

Excellent post! While I think you're on very slippery slope in regards to your semi-exceptance of Genesis (for want of a better term), I agree with you entirely in regards to the totally unscientific nature of evolution. There is real evidence for many of the truths taught in Genesis. Evidence...

I'm back in! Thank you, Sherman, for all your help. The new site looks great!

The following, more or less formal, argument seeks to prove that the doctrine of Exhaustive Divine Foreknowledge cannot be true. I say that it is a "more or less" formal argument only because there are points within it that have not been formally established for the sake of brevity. You can only...

Matthew 22:40 On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.” Matthew 5:6 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled. It's sort of stunning the percentage of the time that the passages Lon cites don't say anything that resembles the...

Okay, first of all, I'm sorry that this is hideously long! You don't even have to read it all, never mind respond to it all. Just read it through and post something that responds to it in general terms. Our two major points of disagreement remain the same... 1. TOTALLY random selection of the...

Okay, first of all, I'm sorry that this is hideously long! You don't even have to read it all, never mind respond to it all. Just read it through and post something that responds to it in general terms. Our two major points of disagreement remain the same... 1. TOTALLY random selection of the...

First of all I want to say that I somehow missed this post. I really wish they'd figure out how to get us back onto a forum that works properly. I'm very short on time and can't respond to your post point by point. There wouldn't be much point in doing so anyway because our disagreement isn't...

So what happens in such a system when the king hates God and doesn't care about following the law?

First, I should start by giving a brief explanation of what redshift is... Instead of merely looking at the bare light coming from distant objects through telescopes, one of the main techniques astronomers use to study distant celestial objects is to spread that light out into a spectrum. This...

My argument proves that the Earth cannot be flat without reference to anything the government has ever published, stated, claimed or spent one single dime of tax money on. It is based entirely and only on observations that you could make but refuse to do so and on 6th or 7th grade level math...

By the way... The same effect happens even if the measurements of the sun's angle are taken when the sun is high in the sky, although to a lesser degree. The disparity between the calculated distance between two points based on the angle of the sun above the horizon gets larger and larger as...

That was true for a long time but since the advent have space telescopes, things of improved dramatically. The following is from the Wikipedia article on the subject of stellar paralax... Space astrometry for parallax In 1989 the satellite Hipparcos was launched primarily for obtaining...

The apparent brightness of a source is inversely proportional to the square of its distance. So, in other words, lets say you have four identical light sources, one is right next to you, one is ten feet away, one is twenty feet away and the other thirty feet away. If the light that is ten feet...

You're an ignorant fool! They absolutely have used that theorem on thousands of stars and proven flat out that they are indeed thousands of light years away. Stellar Paralax In fact, it is the Pythagorean Theorem that tells us how far away the Sun itself is. Since we know through direct...