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Thor Member (Idle past 5938 days) Posts: 148 From: Sydney, Australia Joined: |
One of our better TV networks here has been showing this documentary series over the last few weeks, "The Adventure of English" which may be of interest to you.
The Adventure of English (TV Mini Series 2002— ) - IMDb I haven't seen it myself (busy with studying and exams and things ) so I can't vouch for it's quality, but I've heard it's quite good.
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akhenaten Junior Member (Idle past 5928 days) Posts: 26 Joined: |
Seems as though there's a companion book for that series available. I may look for that.
There was also a great PBS series way back in the 80s (yeah I'm old) with Robert MacNeil called "The Story of English" and there's a companion book -- updated many times -- for that as well.
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akhenaten Junior Member (Idle past 5928 days) Posts: 26 Joined: |
Most are familiar with the words of Psalm 23 especially in the King James Version. Look it up if you don't remember and then check this out. It's something I found a while ago that's quite funny
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Archer Opteryx Member (Idle past 3625 days) Posts: 1811 From: East Asia Joined: |
Thanks, Taz. Made my day. Careful, though. Hovind's gems are copyrighted now. Archer All species are transitional.
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bluegenes Member (Idle past 2504 days) Posts: 3119 From: U.K. Joined: |
akhenaten writes: Anyway since none of them are taking my bait, I hope it's all right if I refer to this example:Missing Link | Answers in Genesis The main problem for AiG in that link is their timescale, unsurprisingly. Although Sanskrit and the European languages can be recognized as having common roots, the difference between Sanskrit and Latin, for example, should only be about the same as the difference between French and Spanish, or perhaps slightly greater. Sanskrit and Latin have less than two thousand years to diverge (after Babel). The French/Spanish divergence and the English/German divergence could be seen as 1500 hundred year divergences, about the same. But I bet that Sanskrit and Latin speakers could understand virtually nothing of each other's language, whereas we can make easy sense of a lot of German words, and the French equally of the Spanish. This is because the real divergence of Sanskrit/Latin is probably about 4000 years, meaning around 4000 years B.C. Adam and Eve's days! So they'll have to think up a lie to explain the profound difference between Sankrit and Latin in less than two thousand years.
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Taz Member (Idle past 3319 days) Posts: 5069 From: Zerus Joined: |
You think that's funny? One time someone asked him why the sun is burning even though there's no oxygen there and he responded saying he didn't know... here is the exact quote...
Listener's letter: [.....] It is said the Sun is a burning ball of gas, in other words fire. What is the one thing that fire needs to burn? Oxygen. How come that stars continue to burn if they have no oxygen to keep them burning? [.....] Hovind: Excellent question, Andres. I'm sorry but I don't know that I have a positive answer. [....] As far as the oxygen required, I'll have to pass on that one too and do some more study on that one. I don't know that I could prove one way or the other. I think there are different types of burning though - some do not require oxygen. Sorry about that, Andres. I'll have to do some research and check back with you on that one. For people who don't know, what goes on in the sun is called fusion (aka hydrogen burning). It's when 2 hydrogen atoms fuse to create helium and energy. May be Hovind should not so liberally use the "Dr." title when he doesn't even know off the top of his head this very obvious fact? Owing to the deficiency of the English language, I have occasionally used the academic jargon generator to produce phrases that even I don't fully understand. The jargons are not meant to offend anyone or to insult anyone's intelligence!
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5951 Joined: Member Rating: 5.2 |
{voice="Flip Wilson's Geraldine"}
The Tazmanian devil made me do it! {/voice} Ah yes, "Dr" Hovind, the self-proclaimed expert in science and math. "You don't understand any of that, but I understand it because I taught high school math and science for 15 years." He wouldn't clarify that it was in his own private Christian school -- oh those poor poor kids! But wait, there's more! At this site, No webpage found at provided URL: http://www.cuttingedge.org/NEWS/n1260.cfm, a Christian group revealed "EXACT ILLUMINIST TIMETABLE FOR PRODUCING ANTICHRIST HAS BEEN REVEALED TO CUTTING EDGE MINISTRIES!". The Illuminati plot was to create a second sun in the sky by crashing the Galileo probe into Jupiter and the resulting nuclear explosion would ignite Jupiter into a star. When they asked astronomers how feasible this was, the astronomers tried to explain that it couldn't happen because Jupiter is not massive enough to trigger a fusion reaction in its core (it's about 1/10th the necessary mass, as I recall from astronomy class over 30 years ago). But Cutting Edge just could not understand what those astronomers told them, but they could understand the "scientific" answer that Hovind gave them:
quote:Talk about the blind leading the blind! A related Hovind claim that I've tracked down is that at the rate that the sun is losing mass because it's "burning its fuel", 5 million tons per second, then 5 billion years ago the sun would have been so massive that it would have sucked the earth in. But if we do the math (gee, wasn't Hovind an "expert" in math?) we find that the sun's mass and gravity would have been only a few thousandths of a percent greater, sucking the earth in by less that 100,000 miles. When I emailed Hovind about this and asking for clarification, he did everything he could to avoid discussing or even supporting his own claim; he even tried, twice, to pick a fight with me over my AOL screenname (same as the one here). Even if the sun were originally pure hydrogen and were allowed to fuse its entire mass into helium, the total mass lost by "burning its fuel" could not possibly exceed 0.7% of the original mass. Apparently, Hovind not only believes that the sun burns by combustion, but he also believes that combustion results in the mass of the fuel disappearing -- what, conservation of matter and basic chemistry is just an evolutionist conspiracy? Oh those poor, poor former students of his! Oh, and obviously, when Galileo did crash into Jupiter on 21 September 2003 there was no nuclear explosion. The craft's nuclear power modules were designed to be safe and could not have exploded. Galileo (spacecraft) - Wikipedia Edited by dwise1, : No reason given. Edited by dwise1, : Trying to get that fool voice tag to work right
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Taz Member (Idle past 3319 days) Posts: 5069 From: Zerus Joined: |
dwise1 writes:
Before an hour ago, I honestly thought that what goes on in the sun is an obvious fact. But after talking to jar and anglagard, I guess it's not so obvious. So, I don't blame them for believing Hovind's bullshit. Talk about the blind leading the blind! Owing to the deficiency of the English language, I have occasionally used the academic jargon generator to produce phrases that even I don't fully understand. The jargons are not meant to offend anyone or to insult anyone's intelligence!
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anglagard Member (Idle past 864 days) Posts: 2339 From: Socorro, New Mexico USA Joined: |
Taz writes: Before an hour ago, I honestly thought that what goes on in the sun is an obvious fact. But after talking to jar and anglagard, I guess it's not so obvious. So, I don't blame them for believing Hovind's bullshit. This can be read as an insinuation that neither jar nor I know how the sun gets it's energy and that we believe what Hovind says. Is that what you meant? ABE - We said fusion, not combustion, is the source, remember Edited by anglagard, : title Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider - Francis Bacon The more we understand particular things, the more we understand God - Spinoza
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5951 Joined: Member Rating: 5.2 |
I'm at a big disadvantage with this claim, because I've known ever since about third grade that the sun and stars burn through fusion. It is virtually impossible for me to even imagine how anyone could actually think that it's by other means, such as combustion.
We first got into this claim on a Yahoo creation/evolution forum -- before it turned into the sole province of a creationist moderator who immediately set about silencing all opposition. In the middle of the ongoing discussion, a 1st or 2nd year college student joined in stating that he had always thought that the sun burned on its surface, though I forget whether he thought it was by combustion. He was very quickly corrected and he accepted the corrections. I just wonder what most people think so that I can understand the appeal that that Hovind claim has for them.
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Taz Member (Idle past 3319 days) Posts: 5069 From: Zerus Joined: |
Sorry, I was in a rush.
In physics, we usually refer to what goes on in the sun as "hydrogen burning". It's just another way of saying fusion. What I meant was I thought the phrase "hydrogen burning" was obvious to everyone until I talked to you two. The term "hydrogen burning" is probably the sources of confusion. Obviously, you two know what goes on in the sun. But others are not. When they hear us physicists say "hydrogen burning", they automatically assume combustion. Again, sorry for the poor wordings. Edited by Taz, : Changed "everything" to "everyone". I just got back from running. Owing to the deficiency of the English language, I have occasionally used the academic jargon generator to produce phrases that even I don't fully understand. The jargons are not meant to offend anyone or to insult anyone's intelligence!
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bluegenes Member (Idle past 2504 days) Posts: 3119 From: U.K. Joined: |
anglagard writes: This can be read as an insinuation that neither jar nor I know how the sun gets it's energy and that we believe what Hovind says. Do you think people stereotype Texans? You all believe the sun burns oil, wear ten gallon hats, and think the Flintstones is a documentary series about the days before the Fall.
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bluegenes Member (Idle past 2504 days) Posts: 3119 From: U.K. Joined: |
dwise1 writes: I'm at a big disadvantage with this claim, because I've known ever since about third grade that the sun and stars burn through fusion. It is virtually impossible for me to even imagine how anyone could actually think that it's by other means, such as combustion. It was a strong argument against Darwin and those who wanted a very old earth in the nineteenth century, as you probably know. I mean strong, because there was no possible kind of fuel they could think of that could last for hundreds of millions of years. At that time, it was understandable. The real story would've seemed like magic to them, in a way.
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Taz Member (Idle past 3319 days) Posts: 5069 From: Zerus Joined: |
dwise1 writes:
See, people like us are at a disadvantage when it comes to stuff like this. Ordinary people usually can't understand something unless it's related to common everyday stuff. It's easier for them to understand combustion than fusion. This is how people like Hovind can make so much money by preying on the gullible. I just wonder what most people think so that I can understand the appeal that that Hovind claim has for them.
You'd be amazed to learn how many college students don't know simple facts like this. Although I'd never encountered someone in real life that didn't know it's not combustion at work in the sun (probably because the topic ever comes up anyway), I've dealt with college students that honest to god didn't know the reason stars are so small in the sky is because they're so far away. Back in my TA days for physics, I was very surprised to find some of my students coming up to me to ask if the sun was just an ordinary star how come the stars are so much smaller than the sun? Another example is the way we can determine the distances of the stars. Take parallax and red shifts for example. It's a lot easier for Hovind to claim that there's no way we can know the stars are such and such distance away or if they're moving away. It's a lot harder for us to actually explain to ordinary folks what parallax and red shifts tell us and how/why.
I'm at a big disadvantage with this claim, because I've known ever since about third grade that the sun and stars burn through fusion. It is virtually impossible for me to even imagine how anyone could actually think that it's by other means, such as combustion.
Now that you mention it, I seem to remember learning about this in middle school or so. We went through possibilities of what might go on in the sun. Based on the energy output of the sun, there just isn't enough mass for a chemical process to go on this long and giving out this much energy. This fact alone should tell anyone that it's not combustion at work. Oh my goodness, I just looked at the thread title... sorry for bringing everyone way off topic. Edited by Taz, : No reason given. Owing to the deficiency of the English language, I have occasionally used the academic jargon generator to produce phrases that even I don't fully understand. The jargons are not meant to offend anyone or to insult anyone's intelligence!
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Jon Inactive Member |
I'm going to add this reply here, too, just because it took me longer than I thought it would to get that other one posted up there.
What was that language? We simply cannot know, but it is unlikely to have been anything with which we are today familiar.
As I said before a Modern English speaker wouldn't be able to make neither heads nor tails of OE. This is one of an interesting question, and I, of course, agree. The thing is, however, if a newborn child were placed into an OE setting, he could learn the language with no problems. We know that all humans are descendent from a single man. Interestingly enough, humans all share a common gene that allows for us to acquire language 'naturally'. But, just as the gene is one derived from the original man, so to must be the language a language derived from the original language. This, then, makes even more sense when we realise that all humans can learn any language if born in any part of the world. This is because all languages have the same base (Gen. 11:1), and all humans have the same genetic predisposition to that base (Gen. 9:1). This information, of course, only makes sense if we recognise that all languages have a single common origin, that all humans have a single common origin, and that the split between the language lineages must have happened after the split in the human lineages. In other words, this information all makes sense in light of what the Bible tells us to be the truth. Jon
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