Posted on 02/08/2005 3:50:43 AM PST by PatrickHenry
Just your terminology and the way you frame things labels you as a creationist. I don't know why you want to hide. Most creationists are very proud of not knowing any science.
Demanding undoable experiments is another creationist ploy.
And since this is in response to my post, am I to assume you include me among the "agenda driven creationists and posers"? I have already stated that I am not a creationist, although I readily admit that I am (gasp) friends with some. If you are asserting that I am posing as something that I am not, then you are incorrect, particularly if you suspect that I am knowingly engaged in some sort of deception.
I have perhaps singled you out for discourse, but that is because you have identified yourself as a Christian Minister. You have also professed as one your main motivations for posting, something along the lines of being concerned about the witness of persons who claim to be Christians to potential converts. (I didn't want to wade through 1500 posts to get the exact post to quote. But, I believe the previous sentence conveys the gist of the post.) This is something that I am concerned about too...that is why I am addressing you.
I feel that I must reiterate at this point that I know that I am certainly not a good witness on all occasions. But, this should not prevent me from trying to help reprove a brother. It was for that reason that I was suggesting that you rethink your demeaning of fellow Christians by suggesting that their religion was nonsense, and for misleading others by purporting that an acceptance of evolutionary concepts was somehow central to being a Christian.
If I have any agenda at all, it is to make the point that acerbic attacks rarely help win converts, (you catch more flies with honey) and I am trying to make that point to both sides of the argument.
That makes sense.
Sorry, can't make it. I am busy that year.
What makes you think Earth will be unihabitable?
You are both correct but arguing about different things. If you accelerate you will be pushed into a larger orbit. If something pushes you into a larger orbit you will slow down. If you decelerate you will drop into a closer orbit, however as you drop the tighter orbit will cause you to pick up speed. As mentioned before this is conservation of angular momentum. This is why a figure skater spins faster by pulling in her arms.
My physics books are packed away too.
so are mine - looks like I'm gonna have to unstore them. I seem to need remedial fizzicks
I don't consider creationists to be good Christians because they have distorted the Gospel and inserted Genesis (a faulty interpretation of Genesis) into the Gospel.
How can you make people understand the Gospel if you have all this noise from people who have put their scams to make money from the scientifically unwashed above Christ?
I don't really attack people. I tell them the truth and they think it is an attack.
I really wish what I read would stay in my head a little longer than 15 minutes. Then I wouldn't have to look for old text books all the time.
I knew a guy who had perfect recall
always envied him that.
really nice guy, too.
Take two aspirin and ping somebody else in the morning.
No. Entropy is a state variable. It is not a catalyst.
Uh, it happens everytime you stuff your face with food ...
I really don't know how to answer except to ask how can we determine what a "good" or "true" Christian is? We all fall short of perfection. It is the realization of our shortfall that will lead us to Christ seeking redemption.
There may be some people who are put off for a time by apparently uneducated and unscientific Christians. This truly may be a stumbling block for some. Also, I cannot deny that there are unscrupulous persons claiming to be Christians who turn out to be scam artists. But, if a person is really seeking spiritual truths, it probably won't be a scientific discipline that convicts the soul and ignites the desire to seek out a Savior.
There's a movie about that, "Memento" or "Momento" (I forgot which.)
there is no "may be" about it. nor, in many cases, any "apparently" either.
Think of it this way. The farther away from the earth, the less gravity thus the less centripetal acceleration for a body in orbit and thus the less tangential velocity required to counter that centripetal acceleration.
To go from a low orbit to a high orbit, one must "push" against gravity to force it to a higher elevation but once at that elevation your orbital velocity is slower.
To come down to a lower orbit, you slow down your tangential velocity and let it "fall" to the lower orbit but since you are now in a higher gravity field, you will continue falling at a higher acceleration thus the need for a higher tangential velocity.
I have not quoted the Bible.
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