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I think the basic form of number is ordinal; and that other developments are analogies or (in cases of relation) part analogies; and that analogies are everywhere; and that is as much philosophy, science etc as theology . . . Reputedly 318 = the number of Eliezer (Gen 14) (employed as check...

I think these are a sort of mnemonics in Nature and not superstitious. Anytime we can't see how they would work, doesn't matter. According to p. 35 of 50 mathematical ideas by Tony Crilly (Quercus, 2007) (if I understand this - it is a difficult book to understand) one William Hamilton managed...

Big thanks to everybody - am much clearer now! :)

Yes, this is why it is not a denominational thing at all. In baptising someone according to the universally acceptable trinitarian formula we don't speak for any faction or church, only for those present and God. A Christian who claims to be from another trinitarian church (and I think this is...

It's because the minister (clergy or lay) him / herself did it on this occasion being witnessed, and speaks for him / herself, and not for an amorphous conglomeration of absent people whose beliefs, and about circumstances and motivations he has no idea of. This is also why the Creed has "I...

Good question as it's the shared sacrament among all.

It may be semi off topic at most: in the RCC it has to be asked why there was a transfer and acceptance. Weird training / supervision combined with transfer and acceptance: three interrelated points already. In the C of E it's totally normal to move about the country, so mobility issues only...

Lack of foundation in Ascension when Another Comforter was sent for our ministry.

Why is he not in Brazil? Clergy of all people should be seen to stay put.

Emeritus Ratzinger invented this fallacy. This is why I am continually stressing boundaries in business-minding. The word "God" is a job title. Muslims don't have Holy Scripture nor Ascension so popes should stop breathing down their necks. Incidentally, Emeritus McCarrick was at the "Muslim...

I will say it seems that of late, some science writing and teaching has lagged behind scholarship more. Some people think some strata were the other way up and overturned, some don't. Electro-gravitic fields are being researched by some. Mount Toba (a huge volcanic explosion) is estimated by...

A person that is no nearer than the other end of a you tube can't know you and you can't know them; they might be out to promote influence. I expect you turn the "wrong way up" when you "aren't looking"! ;):(:confused::cool::eek::rolleyes:o_O Some people say if it works, work it; but it's your...

Electronic things are being loaded with more and more complex junk. Everybody I've known of has had mega computer problems these last few months. If you can isolate your personal ones (at least somewhat), all the better. I too had to let go of assumptions based on what clashes with Bible...

Dallas Willard left some good quality essays on general philosophy on his web site. Susan Haack is very good on logic and on philosophy of science. I've just found the whole of Aristotle on a web site for downloading. I heartily recommend Straight and Crooked thinking by R Thouless. I also like...

As I see it there are two main areas in your Q1: mythology and "evolution". a - "Evolution" first. I think it has of late not only been badly explained by some popularisers involved, but also hijacked by lugubrious-minded and superstitious elements. In my young day here in England...

Q4: There is something rather than nothing, because we are on an "existence wave" (this term of mine would amuse Dennett or Dawkins no doubt). The "gravity waves" whose existence Einstein guessed, appear to be gaining more and more confirmation. Even Popper intuited "propensity zones" which I...

In fact it should have inserted the word "some" after "and".

1 - What is the force of the green and blue and why haven't you put "end of (something or other)" after the end of the green? 2 - Can you remind us of anything about the word "en"?

The Black Sea, Sundaland, Doggerland and areas off west India are not "continent" sized, it is true.

I personally don't think anyone can, for two reasons in combination: 1 - plausible estimates will vary widely as to how long humanity existed before Gen 1 verse 2 or the genealogies referred to in some verses; PLUS 2 - plausible estimates will vary widely as to how long the earth existed before...