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Not only Intelligent Design - but DIVINE DESIGN!

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Parasomnium
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Message 37 of 139 (560702)
05-17-2010 2:36 AM 		Reply to: Message 23 by Anita Meyer
05-15-2010 4:47 PM

You contradict yourself
Anita,
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First you say this:
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Firstly, no credible linguistic scholar can say with any confidence just were language or writing originated from. Yes, they can postulate on which ones they think came first, but this is really just all assumption.
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and then you contradict yourself with this:
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Secondly, in my book I have a whole chapter that is dedicated to showing people how all written writing of the world is a form of the same Hebrew letters that came down with Moses from Mount Sinai. I have letter charts that show the similarity in letters from the earliest know/found eras. Even Phoenician, cuneiform, Chinese and Mayan are forms of Hebrew.
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What am I to make of that?
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"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science." - Charles Darwin.
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Message 40 of 139 (560710)
05-17-2010 7:15 AM 		Reply to: Message 33 by Anita Meyer
05-16-2010 10:11 PM

"Best selling" redefined
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The Bible is the best selling book of all time - this should tell you something.
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If by "best selling" you mean "having been crammed down people's throats the most", then, yes, the Bible would be a real blockbuster.
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"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science." - Charles Darwin.
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Message 47 of 139 (560777)
05-17-2010 3:16 PM 		Reply to: Message 42 by Anita Meyer
05-17-2010 12:05 PM

Lunar cycle
Anita, the lunar cycle is approximately 29.5 days, which leaves 1.5 days unaccounted for in your philosophy.
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"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science." - Charles Darwin.
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Message 48 of 139 (560780)
05-17-2010 3:34 PM 		Reply to: Message 43 by Anita Meyer
05-17-2010 12:55 PM

The ancients and pi
Anita Meyer writes:
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Now if you notice that if the value of 111/106 for the diameter is multiplied by 3 for the circumference the result is 3.1415, a much closer approximation to Pi than the simple reading of the text.
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Conclusion: The ancients knew their math - maybe even better than we do today!
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Why did you stop at four decimals? Is it because from the fifth they are no longer the decimal expansion of pi? Today, we know the value of pi to a precision of more than 2699999990000 decimals. Your conclusion is unwarranted.
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"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science." - Charles Darwin.
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Message 52 of 139 (560785)
05-17-2010 4:06 PM 		Reply to: Message 50 by Anita Meyer
05-17-2010 3:53 PM

The Rule of 7: exceptions and inaccuracy
Anita Meyer writes:
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[...] most animals have a gestation period of multiples of 7. For instance the mouse 21 days (3x7). The rabbit and rat 28 days (4x7). The cat 56 days (8x7). And the dog 63 days (9x7). Again as you can see all multiples of 7. Nothing, perhaps, is more remarkable with the number 7 then the period of gestation (or pregnancy) in humans. This corresponding period is 280 days or 40x7.
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As you can see here there are plenty of exceptions to your "rule of 7" , and many of them are inaccurate as well. As far as gestation periods are concerned, nothing can be concluded from them with regard to a special meaning of the number 7.
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"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science." - Charles Darwin.
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Message 55 of 139 (560790)
05-17-2010 4:35 PM 		Reply to: Message 53 by Anita Meyer
05-17-2010 4:19 PM

7
Anita Meyer writes:
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Since neither of these cycles accurately measure the solar cycle the 28th day is an average of the two main lunar cycles.
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The average of the two cycles is approximately 28.43 days. That's still almost half a day off.
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For all I know the female menstrual cycle may have something to do with the lunar cycle, I wouldn't think that very strange. But your convoluted arguments to arrive at a conclusion about the specialness of the number 7, because it corresponds with the Biblical story, are nothing but just-so stories.
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If there really was something special about the number 7 because God would have it so, then you'd expect him to have taken some trouble in smoothing out the inaccuracies, wouldn't you?
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"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science." - Charles Darwin.
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