Recent content by Gracchus

You linked to something published by "Liberty University", which is self-described as a theological seminary. The author, Mr. Habermas, is a theologian. His "peers" are theologians. Geology studies the Earth. Biology studies life. Neurology studies neural systems. Theology studies what...

It also reminds me of the "Three Bears" and the "Three Little Pigs".

Time is just another way of measuring distance, and the distance between distinct points of spacetime is always greater than zero, whether that distance is perceived as time-like, space-like or some combination. Moreover, if spacetime is a manifold that distance may be indefinitely large, it is...

To return to the subject: Why did America allow slavery? America allowed chattel slavery because there was money to be made and America has always put its real trust in money and guns.

I got less than two minutes into this before I turned it off.

And some of those issues were addressed. If the folks who said the Bible sanctioned "lighter" forms of slavery, they had obviously never read or never understood the plain words of their holy book. That is when they started to wander off topic ... It is difficult to keep a pigeon's mind on the...

You folks seem to have wandered from discussing the topic, which was "Why did America allow slavery?", and taken to preaching to each other about points of doctrine and dogma. You don't even make up your own, but just accept without reason or examination what has been handed to you from "on...

No, logic is a branch of mathematics, which deals with absolute conclusions and making predictions reached by following certain rules, based on factual observations and testable hypotheses and premises which is the accepted scientific method. The scientific method is trusted because it is...

"Tu quoque" is Latin for "You also" and addresses the person making the argument by pointing out hypocrisy or some perceived personality flaw rather than addressing the argument.

This logical fallacy is known as "Tu quoque".

In biblical slavery, one could only hold a Jew in slavery for seven years, but non-Jews were permanent property. And if, during that seven years, you "gave" that slave a wife, that wife and any children remained your slave when the Jewish slave was set free. In other words, if a Jew was born a...

"Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration." What do you think of this idea?

Actually, an organism that is well fitted to a stable environment doesn't change very much, because any change is likely to be away from the adaptation that has already been achieved. The coelacanths that dwell in the abyssal ocean haven't changed much because they have been adapted to that...

You can find life in ice and in boiling water. Most species are probably anaerobic living in the absence of light and air. Trial and error isn't, perhaps, the most intelligent approach, but given time enough, it suffices. Try telling that to the passenger pigeon and the dodo. Tell it to the...

Yes, yes, the electric field is perpendicular to the magnetic field and both are perpendicular to the direction of travel. As I said. The "particle" is the field until the wave form collapses. I prefer the term "oscillation" to "spin". "Spin" implies rotation, and "oscillation" just implies...