That question you seem to have just discovered was settled to everyone's satisfaction over a century ago, look up "Michelson-Morley Experiment", "Lorentz-Fitzgerald Contraction" and "The Ether". Not only was your question anticipated, it was answered, many decades before you were born. You are so far off-base you're not even wrong.
It was the incontrovertible proof that there is no SOMETHING that is vibrating, fluctuating, varying or pulsing that led to Special Relativity and the discovery of the photon. And this insight was gained by making accurate measurements of natural phenomena with mechanical apparatus, not by poring over many quaint and curious volumes of forgotten lore.
Johannes, it is no disgrace to be ignorant of science, we all have our limitations; I can't play a musical instrument or speak Ukrainian. But to claim to those who are not ignorant that you are capable of insights they are too dim to comprehend is really annoying.
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You're way behind the times, J. Ancient Hebrew had no upper case letters.
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- ACK!! Our local school is planning a Bible course...
- An interesting development, and a significant sign.
- Thats what you get when you vote republican.... (n/t)
- So I gather you hate Jesus?
- You know that's an enormous leap, right?
- Rhode Island.
- Save it for college.
- Fine for college-bound kids.
- That was my thought, too.
- When I covered the Book of Job in college...
- Not at all..
- Read "The Sermon on the Mount" and compare that to "Christianity".
- You know that's an enormous leap, right?
- This atheist has no problem with this.
- Good post. I note you sent it to the newspaper, too.
- re: Theo logical message
- re: was upon not wasupon :-) (n/t)
- Bronze Age creation myth and Hellenistic philosophy.
- A slight modification with profound consequences.
- Bronze Age creation myth and Hellenistic philosophy.
- re: was upon not wasupon :-) (n/t)
- Recommended reading (or even a school text)