Science is a tool that can be abused!

[_The CCC]

Yet for all that learning we still treat our neighbor like crap.

[_Maksutov]

Yet for all that learning we still treat our neighbor like crap.

It's even worse than that. We use knowledge to find "better" ways to exploit and kill each other. This is our primate heritage. We have to understand it in order to transcend it.

[_DrW]

Little Nipper,

Your claim that the Earth, moving at 30 km/sec around the sun, is fixed and immovable is exactly analogous to claiming that a Japanese Shinkansen maglev train, moving at a constant 600 km/h along a track, is fixed and immovable.

After all, people on board cannot feel the motion of the train as they walk along the center aisle. An object dropped on the moving train falls straight down and hits the floor, exactly as it would if the train were fixed and immovable. Same thing happens when one drops an object here on Earth.

The only way passengers know that the train is moving is by looking at objects outside the train.

In the same way, Maks knows that the Earth is moving by taking a time exposure photograph of the sky on a clear night with his telescope and seeing the tracks of the stars as the Earth rotates. If he has the equipment, he can tell how fast the stars are moving away from him by noting the red-shift in their spectra.

I am finding it hard to believe that you are really so clueless as to basic elementary science, or critical thinking for that matter, that you would not come up with a similar analogy yourself and thenrefrain from clicking SUBMIT on the nonsense that appears in your post quoted above.

As long as it stays on track a Japanese Shinkansen maglev train is a very good example of fixed and immovable. It follows a set pattern that has been programed both electronically (computer) and mechanically (track). Thanks you for proving the Bible truth so eloquently.

Little Nipper,

You are a piece of work, my friend. Can we all assume that you would be willing to demonstrate how fixed and immovable a 600 kph maglev train really is by standing in the middle of its guideway as said train passes by?

(Maglevs do not run on tracks, but no one here would expect you to know that.)

[_The CCC]

Yet for all that learning we still treat our neighbor like crap.

It's even worse than that. We use knowledge to find "better" ways to exploit and kill each other. This is our primate heritage. We have to understand it in order to transcend it.

I understand it reasonably well, but I still have much to learn.

[_moksha]

[_Franktalk]

Yes Moksha, the God of science is a chimp. Heaven is a forest filled with fruit trees. I wonder if we can de-evolve so we can enjoy heaven.

[_spotlight]

Yes Moksha, the God of science is a chimp. Heaven is a forest filled with fruit trees. I wonder if we can de-evolve so we can enjoy heaven.

I have a reply to this but it involves violating the standards of the celestial forum.

[_Franktalk]

Yes Moksha, the God of science is a chimp. Heaven is a forest filled with fruit trees. I wonder if we can de-evolve so we can enjoy heaven.

I have a reply to this but it involves violating the standards of the celestial forum.

That is quite the admission. You are limited by the standards of others because you don't have any.

[_spotlight]

Au contraire, I have the standard of evidence, you lack the standard.

[_Franktalk]

Au contraire, I have the standard of evidence, you lack the standard.

Boy do you flip flop. Do you require evidence to laugh at a joke?