kerryliz
March 6th 2007, 08:42 PM
According to Bronowski in "The Ascent of Man", Islam and ancient Greek culture share a common interest in what is static and unchanging. Their idea of motion is that it is circular at a constant speed.
This is different to Isaac Newton'(?)s conceptualisation of motion as inertial, so that circular motion is made up of lots of tangents under acceleration. If you let go of a ball swinging around your head, it will go off in a straight line.
In the English dictionary, "sense" is the direction of a vector.
About the Islam/Christian cultural divide, Western thought derives a lot from ancient Greek thought. The ancient Greeks believed in the music of the spheres and modern jargon talks about juggling all the balls in your life and success is deemed to be doing a good job of that. Jesus said: "Keep your eye simple and your whole body will be bright."
This impacts on fundamental viewpoints about the world. The ancient Greeks believed that light comes out of your eyes, the planets revolve around the earth and that the sun was a chariot. De'Dondi's clock, in the Smithsonian Institute, demonstrates the fact that you can mathematically configure the orbits of the planets as a geocentric model. However, it is a model and not our current idea of what the solar system actually does. (Whether they realised this at the time is another question. What was the relationship between religion and science?)
I don't believe in the general theory of relativity either. I think it's another model. There's no electromagnetism in it. It's a dark universe, a what-if universe. It's Genesis 1:1,2.
Latitude and longitude do not correlate with any particular divisions of the earth's magnetic field. They are simply a way for everybody to communicate about the same thing.
As for all the cycles in the ecosystem, it all looks suspiciously mechanistic, scary (Richard Branson's reward?), and contrary to the idea that God can influence the spiritual nature of human beings, which I believe, alters our use of the world in such important if subtle ways, that there is hope yet!
Ciao!
Kerry
This is different to Isaac Newton'(?)s conceptualisation of motion as inertial, so that circular motion is made up of lots of tangents under acceleration. If you let go of a ball swinging around your head, it will go off in a straight line.
In the English dictionary, "sense" is the direction of a vector.
About the Islam/Christian cultural divide, Western thought derives a lot from ancient Greek thought. The ancient Greeks believed in the music of the spheres and modern jargon talks about juggling all the balls in your life and success is deemed to be doing a good job of that. Jesus said: "Keep your eye simple and your whole body will be bright."
This impacts on fundamental viewpoints about the world. The ancient Greeks believed that light comes out of your eyes, the planets revolve around the earth and that the sun was a chariot. De'Dondi's clock, in the Smithsonian Institute, demonstrates the fact that you can mathematically configure the orbits of the planets as a geocentric model. However, it is a model and not our current idea of what the solar system actually does. (Whether they realised this at the time is another question. What was the relationship between religion and science?)
I don't believe in the general theory of relativity either. I think it's another model. There's no electromagnetism in it. It's a dark universe, a what-if universe. It's Genesis 1:1,2.
Latitude and longitude do not correlate with any particular divisions of the earth's magnetic field. They are simply a way for everybody to communicate about the same thing.
As for all the cycles in the ecosystem, it all looks suspiciously mechanistic, scary (Richard Branson's reward?), and contrary to the idea that God can influence the spiritual nature of human beings, which I believe, alters our use of the world in such important if subtle ways, that there is hope yet!
Ciao!
Kerry