Recent content by Clete

"Logos" is a legitimate exception to my generalized comment. I'm honestly baffled by Tyndale's translation. William Tyndale translated the New Testament directly from Greek, not from the Latin Vulgate. His work is the primary ancestor of the KJV. Tyndale used "word" and the KJV kept it. But...

Well, you can pretty much know what it meant in the first century by reading how Bible translators put it. They, like all human beings, have their biases, but generally they get the Greek correct.

The problem, in short, is that, if young Earth creationism is correct, there does not appear to have been sufficient time for the light to have traveled from the far distance objects we can see in the night sky. Put more succinctly... If an object is billions of light years away, how did the...

Government welfare: Welfare (in whatever form) that one gets from the government. Welfare is terrific so long as it goes from the person who earned it to the person in need because the giver has an interest in seeing that his gifts are not wasted. When the government plays the roll of Robin...

It is NOT relevant! No one but you cares and the only reason you care is because you have a pet theory that evaporates without the pure speculation you've done in relation to a triviality.

Absolutely unbelievable! As I said - entrenched! Cognitive Entrenchment: Recognizing and Overcoming Mental Rigidity

Why wouldn' it? Do you understand what an "argument from silence" is? I wasn't kidding, chrys! If you are going to present something as potentially important as a whole new kind of eschatology you really ought to have some basic knowledge of well established principles of right thinking. I...

You still seem to be confusing two different issues. They aren't so stupid that they just forget what a meter is defined as, and besides that, they measured it to very tight tolerances long before they redefined the meter. Indeed, it was the precision of their measurements that caused them to...

A Catholic's disloyalty to the scriptures is typically left wanting but Chysostom absolutely takes the cake! I cannot understand how his Christian faith survives at all. He is effectively making up doctrine as he goes along! His approach is not merely flawed, it is intellectually careless to...

I noticed this thread yesterday and reread my opening post. That prompted me to ask Chat GPT what the logical ramifications would be of recriminalizing adultery would be. It's initial response predictably missed the point but it lead to what turned into a back and forth that lasted for several...

No. That doesn't work because they noticed the signals coming in from the space probe arriving too early. Also, this observation has nothing to do with the way the meter is defined. Einstein used this constancy of the speed of light as the genesis of his special theory of relativity several...

Did I miss something or does the video sort of ignore the fact that the measured speed of light is, IN FACT, always the same. If the light is moving at 670 million miles per hour in your direction, and you’re already going 60 toward the light source, then you might expect the light be measured...

I don't have a direct answer, but I think any serious attempt at one has to start by pointing out the hard epistemological break in how distance measurements are made once you reach the limit of what direct trigonometric parallax can tell us. Trigonometric parallax requires no assumptions. It is...

EVERY claim requires evidence, Chrys!!

He doesn't believe those claims because of the evidence. He doesn't care about evidence.