the great alchemy thread

[rockaction]

Duh.

"The mathematical proofs of Newton are completely erroneous." -- Immanuel Velikovsky, polymath, 1942

"It was only the downfall of Newtonian theory in this century which made scientists realize that their standards of honesty had been utopian." -- Imre Lakatos, philosopher, 1973


Even more idiotic.

"With regards to the general theory of relativity, space cannot be imagined without ether." -- Albert Einstein, mathematician, May 1920

"The theory [General Relativity] is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people take for a king ... its exponents are brilliant men but they are metaphysicists, not scientists..." -- Nikola Tesla, physicist, July 1935

"Einstein’s theory of gravity is the craziest explanation of the phenomenon imaginable." -- Wallace Thornhill, physicist, 2001

"...the basic knock against general relativity would be that it's geometry, it's not physics, and so I think this is a 300-pound gorilla that's sitting in the room with redshift written on him and nobody sees him and this is why they don't see it." -- Halton C. Arp, astronomer, June 2007

Quote-mining Einstein to discredit relativity? I think you've successfully converted a couple ambivalent lurkers to the cause of science and reason.

 

[Agonaces of Susa]

Quote-mining Einstein to discredit relativity?

Do you claim to know more about General Relativity than Albert Einstein?

 

[laconicstudent]

*groans with amused pain*

 

[rockaction]

Do you claim to know more about General Relativity than Albert Einstein?

Ha, nope, I will admit where my knowledge ends. You should work on that too!

 

[Agonaces of Susa]

Ha, nope, I will admit where my knowledge ends. You should work on that too!

We are in perfect agreement on this point...

 

[rockaction]

We are in perfect agreement on this point...

Really? Then you should stop posting anything about science.

 

[Agonaces of Susa]

Really? Then you should stop posting anything about science.

LOL.

If Darwinists get their way, it will soon be illegal for Christians (e.g. Isaac Newton, Max Planck, Werner Heisenberg, Carl David Anderson, etc.) to practice science.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/12/science/12geologist.html?_r=2&oref=slogin

May a secular university deny otherwise qualified students a degree because of their religion? ...

Michael L. Dini, a professor of biology education at Texas Tech University, goes even further. In 2003, he was threatened with a federal investigation when students complained that he would not write letters of recommendation for graduate study for anyone who would not offer “a scientific answer” to questions about how the human species originated. ...

Nothing came of it, Dr. Dini said in an interview, adding, “Scientists do not base their acceptance or rejection of theories on religion, and someone who does should not be able to become a scientist.”

A somewhat more complicated issue arose last year at Ohio State University, where Bryan Leonard, a high school science teacher working toward a doctorate in education, was preparing to defend his dissertation on the pedagogical usefulness of teaching alternatives to the theory of evolution. ...

But Dr. Scott, a former professor of physical anthropology at the University of Colorado, said in an interview that graduate admissions committees were entitled to consider the difficulties that would arise from admitting a doctoral candidate with views “so at variance with what we consider standard science.” She said such students “would require so much remedial instruction it would not be worth my time.”

 

[rockaction]

LOL.

If Darwinists get their way, it will soon be illegal for Christians (e.g. Isaac Newton, Max Planck, Werner Heisenberg, Carl David Anderson, etc.) to practice science.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/12/science/12geologist.html?_r=2&oref=slogin

nuff said

 

[Agonaces of Susa]

Ah excuse me, only "Christians" who have renounced the Bible can be allowed to practice science.

 

[laconicstudent]

Ah excuse me, only "Christians" who have renounced the Bible can be allowed to practice science.

I have not renounced the Bible, and I practice science. This is the part where you withdraw your filthy slander.

 

[rockaction]

Ah excuse me, only "Christians" who have renounced the Bible can be allowed to practice science.

You gonna get reported for that one, big boy.

 

[SithDoughnut]

He was talking about gravitational lensing because he mentioned ether.

"With regards to the general theory of relativity, space cannot be imagined without ether." -- Albert Einstein, mathematician, May 1920

I was replying to you, not him. You said light could not be bent, so therefore water either does not exist or is completely different where you live.

 

[Agonaces of Susa]

I have not renounced the Bible, and I practice science.

Likewise.

Here is what the Bible says:

"Then God said, 'Let us [extraterrestrials] make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth on the earth.'" -- Genesis 1:26

Do you agree with that, yes or no?

 

[laconicstudent]

Likewise.

Here is what the Bible says:

"Then God said, 'Let us [extraterrestrials] make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth on the earth.'" -- Genesis 1:26

Do you agree with that, yes or no?

Of course I do. Likely not the way you interpret it, and definitely not with your little bracketed bit, but I don't deny it.

 

[Agonaces of Susa]

Of course I do. Likely not the way you interpret it, and definitely not with your little bracketed bit, but I don't deny it.

Then I clearly wasn't talking about you...

 

[Blayz]

I have not renounced the Bible, and I practice science. This is the part where you withdraw your filthy slander.

Libel. Slander is spoken word.