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Dr Adequate
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Message 12 of 82 (369846)
12-14-2006 11:17 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Dongsheng Zhang
12-13-2006 2:51 PM


ObviouslyTM Ezekiel saw a vision of a helter-skelter.
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Message 21 of 82 (370143)
12-16-2006 1:49 AM
Reply to: Message 20 by Hyroglyphx
12-16-2006 1:17 AM


The Discovery Of Gravity
There's also another one that seems to speak about gravity ling before anyone knew of such a concept.
... i.e. before Ug the caveman proposed his famous theory: "Ug drop rock, rock fall down." You will recall that his chief critic, Ik, a Neanderthal, replied: "Gravity, him just theory."
Ug showed him the thing with the rock again. "That just microfalling," said Ik. "Show me with rock so heavy no-one can lift it, then I believe you."

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Message 31 of 82 (370589)
12-18-2006 2:53 AM
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12-17-2006 1:34 AM


Re: The Discovery Of Gravity
Cute.... Would Ug have understood that that the earth is round ...
I don't know, that's the trouble with pre-history.
The Ancient Greeks knew that the world was round and measured its circumference.
Of course, they thought it was a sphere, but then your passage says "circle", so you can't complain.
and that its suspended?
But it isn't. Reading the passage as "the earth is suspended, and what it's suspended from is nothing",as you seem to, makes a nonsense out of it. Try reading it as "is not suspended from anything."
In which case, again I refer you to the ancient Greeks. Aristotle would have said the same. So would Aristarchus of Samos, who was a heliocentrist to boot.
Everybody knew that what goes up must come down
Which isn't actually true.
long before Newton. What they didn't understand is why.
And if the Bible contained the formula F = m1m2/r2 then I would be duly impressed --- at the acumen of the Jews.
Newton, after all, did not acquire his theory by miraculous means.
But it takes neither a miracle nor knowledge of Newton's theory, or Einstein's for that matter, to know that the earth is not flat.
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