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

Merriam Webster's notes foolscap as usually measuring 16x13 inches. I
recall something like newsprint at least similar in size when I was a kid
in Ecuador. Dad quartered it for scratch paper.
Dave (ASA)

On Sat, 8 Nov 2008 17:21:29 -0000 "Michael Roberts"
<michael.andrea.r@ukonline.co.uk> writes:
> 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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