Re: [asa] spong wrong

Yes, Spong is wrong. Einstein didn't even like the idea of his theory being called Relativity Theory.  He preferred Invariant Theory because it allows physics to work the same regardless of reference frame, as I understand it. "Coope" ----- Original Message ---- From: George Murphy <GMURPHY10@neo.rr.com> To: ASA list <asa@calvin.edu> Sent: Friday, June 6, 2008 5:19:14 PM Subject: [asa] spong wrong Many on this list will have heard of former Episcopal bishop John Spong but perhaps have never read anything of his.  (I say "former" because although he is still in traditional Anglican understanding a bishop, he has not only retired but has said - if I understand him correctly - that he will no longer function as a bishop.)  I get his email newsletter, which occasionally has something to worthwhile to offer & more often doesn't, but in any case is a window on ultra-liberal religious thought.  Spong thinks he knows something about science & I'm told at one time hoped to head the Episcopal science-theology effort.  The following is from his most recent newsletter.   "Since human beings are creatures of both time and space, and since we know from the work of Albert Einstein that time and space are relative categories that expand and contract in relation to each other, then we must conclude that any statement made by anyone, who is bound by time and space, will never be absolute. There are no propositional statements, secular or religious, that are exempt from this principle."   To which one need only reply, "The speed of light in vacuum is the same in all inertial frames."   What Spong has done is to fall for the oldest relativity fallacy there is, "Everything is relative."   Shalom George http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/

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Received on Fri Jun 6 23:34:03 2008