[ RadSafe ] calculus based physics (hormesis), idiomatic "day"

[Doug Huffman]

Karl Popper addresses "dogma" as "axiom" as he develops his 'criterion 
of demarcation' that would work well keeping normative/prescriptive 
statements off the RadSafe list.  If it ain't 'falsifiable' then it 
ain't scientific and has no truth value.

On 11/3/2010 12:08, Howard Long wrote:
> D.,
> Is "day", a time, translatable as a billion orbits (earth around sun)?
> Do other writings need similar idiomatic adjustment to enable better use of the Spirit they contain?
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> Similarly, can we have more confidence in physics when calculus is used vs algebra? Nuclear power may depend on selling politicians that hormesis (calculus) supercedes LNT (algebra)
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> Howard Long
>
> On Nov 3, 2010, at 2:58 AM, od at tlmq.com wrote:
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>> Howard,
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>> The point is whether we take the "scriptures" literally or not. If yes, then we have a dogma. If not, anyone can speculate about anything and then, how can it be proposed that "inteligent design" is an explanation for the cosmos.
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>> Now religion is dogmatic by definition. It is not supposed to change and evolve according to new data, as science does. So we have to take the scriptures literally and if we do, problems arise. A problem I have been told about recently: the description of the altar in Solomon's Temple (in Kings A', 7:23) states that it is round, 5 cubits in diameter and thirty in perimeter. Ergo, pi (د€)  = 3. Now, this might have been due to a miracle, but I doubt that that was the intention of the "being" when it dictated this particular passage.
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>> Quoting "Howard Long"<howard.long at comcast.net>:
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>>> Demetrios,
>>> 7 "days" could describe an indefinite period of time, I am told by  scholars of Hebrew.
>>> I do not presume to understand the time of whatever force or being  is great enough to have attributes we attribute to "God".
>>>
>>> Our understanding of physics - the nature of light as mass or wave,  for example -
>>> and concepts critical  to reactor operation, are evolving also.
>>>
>>> I go by what seems to integrate.
>>>
>>> Howard Long
>>>
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