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

[Demetrios Okkalides]

I quite agree with Doug. What is the one piece of hard evidence that, if 
produced, would falsify the theory of "intelligent design"?
I should also point out that unless the "being" dictating the scriptures 
intended to confuse us, then "a day", whether one earth revolution or a 
billion, it should always be of the same duration. This is clearly not the 
case.

D.Okkalides

P.S. ... and of course I meant 5 cubits in radius.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Huffman" <doug.huffman at wildblue.net>
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Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] calculus based physics (hormesis), idiomatic "day"


> 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?
>>
>> 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)
>>
>> Howard Long
>>
>> On Nov 3, 2010, at 2:58 AM, od at tlmq.com wrote:
>>
>>> Howard,
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> D.Okkalides
>>> THEAGENEION Anticancer Hospital
>>> Thessaloniki
>>> Greece
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Quoting "Howard Long"<howard.long at comcast.net>:
>>>
>>>> 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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