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

Michael -- a person can be wrong w/o being a fool.

jb

On 11/7/08, Michael Roberts <michael.andrea.r@ukonline.co.uk> wrote:
> 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
>>
>> To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@calvin.edu with
>> "unsubscribe asa" (no quotes) as the body of the message.
>>
>>
>
>
>

-- 
Burgy
www.burgy.50megs.com
To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@calvin.edu with
"unsubscribe asa" (no quotes) as the body of the message.