Re: [asa] The Challenge (was Advice for conversing with YECs)

Vernon

I am beginning to wonder if this would work on paper of foolscap size , or
wouldn't you wear it:)
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Burgeson (ASA member)" <hossradbourne@gmail.com>
To: "Vernon Jenkins" <vernon.jenkins@virgin.net>
Cc: "Iain Strachan" <igd.strachan@gmail.com>; "Dehler, Bernie"
<bernie.dehler@intel.com>; <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 4:54 PM
Subject: Re: [asa] The Challenge (was Advice for conversing with YECs)

> On 11/6/08, Vernon Jenkins <vernon.jenkins@virgin.net> wrote (in part:
>
> "Here is what I have written in the introduction to this persuasive piece:
>
> " The triangle-based structure of the Bible's eight opening Hebrew
> words ... has hitherto largely involved a consideration of the sums of
> unbroken sequences of their characteristic values (CVs) - these latter
> determined by the scheme of alphabetic numeration instituted circa 200
> BC into Jewish society... In this page attention is switched to the
> differences of these same CVs. As we shall find, they too reveal
> triangularity, but of a kind that - though completely independent of
> the former - is no less remarkable, being essentially based upon a
> rare event, viz. two positive integers, one the double of the other,
> both triangles. At the same time we shall examine afresh the
> extraordinary relationships that exist between these triangles, the
> Hebrew words from which they derive, and the metric dimensions of an
> abundant modern artefact - the A4 sheet of cut paper. Further, we
> shall attempt to assign a probability to this train of coincidences."
>
> Vernon -- I understand that you see something very significant in the
> above. You must also understand that to many of us -- perhaps all of
> us -- there is no "there" there. Just numerical coincidences. The
> tying of it to A4 paper is seen as simply silly.
>
> Having said this, let me for a moment cast aside my incredulity and
> accept your claims above to be true. That makes them interesting, and
> possibly of some limited evengelistic use to professors of
> mathematics. But because they are so far removed from understanding,
> they are probably of more use in evangelizing the mathematically
> challenged. Or those who still beliee in spooks, faries and
> horoscopes.
>
> Going on -- given your very peculiar claims are true, they have NO
> evidentiary/apologetic use in defending the YEC view, attaching the
> science of evolution, etc.
>
> Cheers
>
> Burgy
>
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