Reply With QuoteIt's not pointless, but it is difficult to answer exhaustively and authoritatively.Originally Posted by aharvey
Yeah. Not to mention strangely ineffective at night.I use different methods depending on the purpose, e.g. my sun dial is too heavy to carry around.
Our star, our planet and our moon may provide the reasons for the seasons, but I am not sure they're the best or most effective ways to track time except in a general sense.
It's not pointless, but it is difficult to answer exhaustively and authoritatively.
Random changes are destructive to any carefully crafted piece of work, such as a computer program, a novel or the genome of a lifeform.
Matt 23:24Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
Incidentally, we should have a fairly definitive answer regarding the validity of frame dragging as part of General Relativity this April, when the first results from the Gravity Probe B experiment are likely to be published.
There is significant experimental evidence to support the notion of frame dragging, but this experiment was designed specifically measure the supposed (and predicted) warp in space-time caused by the mass and motion of our planet and will be looking for the relativistic effects of the earth in its local electromagnetic field.
http://einstein.stanford.edu/
If you needed to time something with accuracy on the order of milliseconds, would you use the stars and planets or a stopwatch?
The answer to your question is no. You know that.
“There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.” - Daniel Dennett
So then if it's too much for you to answer, why'd you bother asking it in the first place?
Check out this handy guide to logical fallacies!
I think Enyart's position is solid observational genius and utterly destroys some of the work of the so called greatest minds of recent history. It seems so obvious and simple in light of the ridiculous predictions of established theory.
Where is the evidence for a global flood?
E≈mc2 When the world is a monster
Bad to swallow you whole
Kick the clay that holds the teeth in
Throw your trolls out the door
"The waters under the 'expanse' were under the crust."
-Bob B.
Of course you do.
“There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.” - Daniel Dennett
That was taking so long I thought I would have to respond to myself. Nobody counted on Johnny doing the unthinkable...
Where is the evidence for a global flood?
E≈mc2 When the world is a monster
Bad to swallow you whole
Kick the clay that holds the teeth in
Throw your trolls out the door
"The waters under the 'expanse' were under the crust."
-Bob B.
Enyart made a subtle mistake in his "observational" rationale. Others have commented at length already.
What predictions are you talking about? I recall one ... something about "space dividing by zero". Which did you have in mind? I'm curious.
The twins paradox.
Where is the evidence for a global flood?
E≈mc2 When the world is a monster
Bad to swallow you whole
Kick the clay that holds the teeth in
Throw your trolls out the door
"The waters under the 'expanse' were under the crust."
-Bob B.
Are we talking about anecdotes which just happen to be peculiar to the lay person or are we talking about "the ridiculous predictions of established theory."
There's a slight difference.
From what I've seen I would have thought there wasn't a difference. What difference do you see?
Where is the evidence for a global flood?
E≈mc2 When the world is a monster
Bad to swallow you whole
Kick the clay that holds the teeth in
Throw your trolls out the door
"The waters under the 'expanse' were under the crust."
-Bob B.
If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.
--George Monbiot
Facts are meaningless. You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!
--Homer J. Simpson
Yeah, incredible. The only question I have is whether he gets his Nobel before bob b gets his. We all know Dr. Walt Brown gets the first one for this group.
But wait, perhaps we can make sure they get one in the same year. bob b for whatever one they give out for the biological sciences, (based no doubt on his "cell trends, too" thread), Dr. Brown in physics (the hydroplate theory) and Pastor Bob for literature (The Plot) or maybe Pastor Bob for peace (his new US constitution?).
"Against stupidity, the gods themselves fight in vain", G. Smiley
"Send money, guns and lawyers..." W. Zevon
"If it is possible for something to happen, that is evidence that it did happen." Stripe on TOL
"There but for fortune...", P. Ochs
Cool, a Nobel prize for being noble.
Where is the evidence for a global flood?
E≈mc2 When the world is a monster
Bad to swallow you whole
Kick the clay that holds the teeth in
Throw your trolls out the door
"The waters under the 'expanse' were under the crust."
-Bob B.
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