From: Glenn Morton (glennmorton@entouch.net)
Date: Sun Jul 06 2003 - 21:22:01 EDT
Wayne, you wrote:
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Subject: Re: Probabilities and Protons
Glenn wrote:
Wayne, it is hard to see, at least for me, what other explanation could
account for such a solution other than MWH. Could there be something? Of
course, but that is doing what the YECs do and hoping that the future will
solve today's theo-scientific problems.
OK, I agree that just holding out hope for future discoveries is a
problematical position.
However, I reflect that whereas the Copernican system
seems so "obvious" to me now, it would have challenged any competent
mind to think of an earth whirling around the sun and spinning on its
axis to boot. We should fall off shouldn't we? Where is the "glue" to
keep us sticking to the earth? At this point in time, I am simply not
willing to take a position on the issue. The MWH may be the proper
analogy for the Copernican system, or it could be the epicycle upon
epicycle nonsense that confounded everybody with the geocentric
model.
I reserve the option to admit that I simply don't know. However,
I suppose I should be more charitable in my criticism of such
speculation.
GRM: Wayne, as I mentioned in another post tonight, there is an
experimental test which can be done. This isn't the wild-A speculation that
one might at first think. This could become a real issue. We will have
quantum computers in a few years and the software is there waiting to be run
which will test this idea. We will KNOW in a few years. One way or another.
Given the track record Christianity has had in predicting outcomes of such
observational tests, I suspect the MWH may win.
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