Christian relativity

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 07 Apr 2006, 18:21 · from 2006-April.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 11:21:42 -0700
Subject: (urth) Christian relativity
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On 4/7/06, nastler <nastler at yahoo.dk> wrote:
> "Suppose that, at the moment of Christ's death, the
> news of it had started traveling at the maximum
> possible speed around the universe outwards from the
> earth. How far would the terrible tidings have
> traveled by now? Following the theory of special
> relativity, the answer is that the news could not,
> under any circumstances whatever, have reached more
> that one-fiftieth of the way across one galaxy ? not
> one- thousandth of the way to our nearest neighboring
> galaxy in the 100-million-galaxy-strong universe. The
> universe at large couldn't possibly be anything other
> than indifferent to Christ, his birth, his passion,
> and his death. Even such momentous news as the origin
> of life on Earth could have traveled only across our
> little local cluster of galaxies. Yet so ancient was
> that event on our earthly time-scale that, if you span
> its age with your open arms, the whole of human
> history, the whole of human culture, would fall in the
> dust from your fingertip at a single stroke of a nail
> file."
> Dawkins

Richard Dawkins is a brilliant, brilliant biologist and
writer about biology, but when it comes to religion
his head is so far up his ass it's sticking out his mouth.
He simply does not understand what he criticizes, any
more than seven-day creationists understand the
overwhelming evidence for the "neo-Darwinian synthesis"
(but feel free to analyze and criticize it). As "brights"
go, he's pretty dim.

--Dan'l

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