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

Slightly mischievous, but Foolscap is the old standard British sized paper ,
slightly longer than A4. We used it till 30 years ago, along with Quarto.
The maths would be more complex:) Perhaps foolscap never crossed the pond?

Michael
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Burgeson (ASA member)" <hossradbourne@gmail.com>
To: "Michael Roberts" <michael.andrea.r@ukonline.co.uk>
Cc: <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2008 2:46 PM
Subject: 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
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Burgy
>
> www.burgy.50megs.com
>
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