My Perspective Challenge

[quatona]

What is the fastest animal on earth?

1. Cheetah
2. Sailfish
3. Peregrine Falcon
4. Lightning Bug

Yes.

 

[Moral Orel]

LOL -- I love these challenge threads!

They're a rich source of Sunday school material when showing adult Christians how the educated react to the simplest questions about almost any subject.

Just issue a challenge, print the results, and there's your material for next Sunday.

It's not about being simple, it's about being intentionally imprecise.

So, the sailfish is the winner. You see, they develop from fertilized egg to hatching in just 60-70 hours. The cheetah takes three months, the lightning bug takes 3-4 weeks, and the falcon takes about a month. All of these things take place on earth. (There's earth underwater too). Or did you mean fastest at something else?

So allow me to make some guesses here. This is commentary on overthinking things, since I should have assumed you meant "travels the fastest" without you saying such. And you intentionally picked a misleading word "earth" instead of the more direct "land" which wouldn't have caused any confusion about whether you simply missed the Shift key.

Lesson you want us to learn: make assumptions about what people are talking about, and base your answers on those assumptions rather than clarifying what it is they're going on about.

Is that about right?

 

[Widlast]

Like reading anything by Tolkien, as your profile stipulates?

And for the record, are you making a contribution to 'mindless nonsense,' or announcing an abstinence?

Again, not clever.
Tolkien taught me the virtue of nobility. There is little of that to be found in the modern world.
Most people enjoy their myths, whether they know them to be myths or not.
I had the pleasure of being able to choose my favorite myths.

 

[JackRT]

Again, not clever.
Tolkien taught me the virtue of nobility. There is little of that to be found in the modern world.
Most people enjoy their myths, whether they know them to be myths or not.
I had the pleasure of being able to choose my favorite myths.

Well said.

 

[AV1611VET]

Tolkien taught me the virtue of nobility.

You of the Elven bloodline, are you?

 

[AV1611VET]

Well said.

Well, said.

 

[Ken-1122]

What is the fastest animal on earth?

1. Cheetah
2. Sailfish
3. Peregrine Falcon
4. Lightning Bug

The Cheetah is the fastest running animal on Earth. Next question?

Ken

 

[Widlast]

You of the Elven bloodline, are you?

House of Finarfin.

 

[mzungu]

Actually since AV wrote "earth" and not "Earth" then the correct answer will be Cheetah.
The Devil is in the details.

 

[AV1611VET]

Actually since AV wrote "earth" and not "Earth" then the correct answer will be Cheetah.

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[Kylie]

What is the fastest animal on earth?

1. Cheetah
2. Sailfish
3. Peregrine Falcon
4. Lightning Bug

Which is faster, the speed of light (299 792 458 m/s) or the super computer Sunway TaihuLight, in mainland China, with a Linpack benchmark of 93 PFLOPS?

 

[[serious]]

Which is faster, the speed of light (299 792 458 m/s) or the super computer Sunway TaihuLight, in mainland China, with a Linpack benchmark of 93 PFLOPS?

Which one hikes faster?

 

[jayem]

This may not be relevant, but from the Sun's perspective, the Earth, and everything contained therein, is traveling around it at 30km/sec (just over 67,000 mph.)

 

[TLK Valentine]

LOL -- I love these challenge threads!

They're a rich source of Sunday school material when showing adult Christians how the educated react to the simplest questions about almost any subject.

Just issue a challenge, print the results, and there's your material for next Sunday.

Noting that you couldn't answer the question.

 

[AV1611VET]

Noting that you couldn't answer the question.

"Couldn't"?

Not hardly.

I just don't want to bias the challenge by stipulating land, sea, air or semantics ... forcing only one correct answer.

I simply asked a question that can be answered four different ways: all four of which are correct in their own way.

Then I simply sat back and observed the resultant immature replies, requests for stipulation, and other expected whatnot.

If you'll notice, professor of literature, Ken-1122 and mzungu gave the best answers, since they justified them.

 

[TLK Valentine]

"Couldn't"?

Not hardly.

I just don't want to bias the challenge by stipulating land, sea, air or semantics ... forcing only one correct answer.

I simply asked a question that can be answered four different ways: all four of which are correct in their own way.

You wanted to make the point that truth is dependent on one's point of view, then?

I would've thought that a Christian, of all people, would be more interested in objective, as opposed to subjective, truth.

 

[Mobezom]

Well, as a materialistically, empirically, pragmatically philosophically inclined individual, I would argue that there is some degree of subjectivity to "truth".

But that doesn't make all "truths" equal. Notably, verifiability, reproducibility, and falsifiability make the scientific worldview a "safer bet" than religion. And within science, there are some things that are false. YEC is one of them.

 

[AV1611VET]

You wanted to make the point that truth is dependent on one's point of view, then?

Just using your own philosophy against you.

Here's a prime example:

Joshua 10:13 And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.

Of the three choices below, what is the best way for a scientist to interpret this passage?

1. Employ general relativity and interpret the passage literally from the standpoint of the point of the observer; God used an amanuensis to write the passage.

2. Assume ignorance on the part of the author, who was assuming geocentrism; God had nothing to do with its authorship and preservation.

3. Treat the passage as inconclusive; pending further stipulation.

(Please answer this.)

 

[TLK Valentine]

Just using your own philosophy against you.

Then you agree with it. Good to know.

Here's a prime example:

Joshua 10:13 And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.

Of the three choices below, what is the best way for a scientist to interpret this passage?

1. Employ general relativity and interpret the passage literally from the standpoint of the point of the observer; God used an amanuensis to write the passage.

2. Assume ignorance on the part of the author, who was assuming geocentrism; God had nothing to do with its authorship and preservation.

3. Treat the passage as inconclusive; pending further stipulation.

(Please answer this.)

2. Assume ignorance on the part of the author, who was assuming geocentrism.

The rest is irrelevant to a scientist.

 

[AV1611VET]

2. Assume ignorance on the part of the author, who was assuming geocentrism.

The rest is irrelevant to a scientist.

Thank you.