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  1. Thermos aquaticus

    How we know that there was no Flood of Noah.

    The point is that it is impossible to have the geologic record we have if there was a planetary flood in the last 10,000 years. For example, we shouldn't have ice caps at the poles that are millions of years old if there was a planetary flood during that time. God didn't write Genesis. Human...
  2. Thermos aquaticus

    Seeing things in their past? You are full of beans!

    That would be a question better answered by @Polymath257. My calculus-fu isn't as strong as it used to be. From my very limited understanding (pun intended), you reach limits when you have infinities and zero's in the denominator. If you put in c for the velocity in that equation you get a...
  3. Thermos aquaticus

    Seeing things in their past? You are full of beans!

    As long as you aren't going the speed of light, you will experience time and distance. Since you are made of matter that has mass you can never travel the speed of light, so that's kind of a moot point anyway. And you are travelling right now in many other reference frames, even if you are...
  4. Thermos aquaticus

    Why doesn’t God communicate directly to everyone?

    But it is self-evident that an angel gave Joseph Smith those golden plates.
  5. Thermos aquaticus

    The Creationist's Argument and its Greatest Weakness

    That is an argument from popularity, which is a logical fallacy.
  6. Thermos aquaticus

    I've Sacrificed my belief in Evolution for Religion

    I have yet to see any creationist demonstrate that hydrostatic sorting would produce the fossil record we observe.
  7. Thermos aquaticus

    Seeing things in their past? You are full of beans!

    As others have stated, you can't replace a physical constant in a physics equation with any old number you want and expect the equation to still work. c is a physical constant, the speed of light. If you want to measure the gravitational attraction between two bodies using Newton's formulas...
  8. Thermos aquaticus

    What Causes or Motivates the Anti-scientists?

    Why wouldn't it be? It was part of the science curriculum when I was in school. I would suspect that I have an average IQ, and I fail to see what that has to do with learning the basics of genetics. What are you on about?
  9. Thermos aquaticus

    YouTuber claims we'll never see another Democrat elected president

    None of that is a violation of free speech. Does that mean Republicans are out of touch with Americans who live in big cities?
  10. Thermos aquaticus

    Seeing things in their past? You are full of beans!

    You don't feel velocity. You feel acceleration. That's the point we are trying to make. If we had a perfectly smooth and straight track and a car with really soft suspension and blacked out windows you wouldn't be able to tell if you were sitting still or travelling at a constant 60 mph. The...
  11. Thermos aquaticus

    Seeing things in their past? You are full of beans!

    For any observer whose velocity is below the speed of light it will take time for light to travel a distance.
  12. Thermos aquaticus

    Seeing things in their past? You are full of beans!

    Thank you for the clarification! Science is one of those fields that requires very precise language so there can be some confusion at times.
  13. Thermos aquaticus

    Seeing things in their past? You are full of beans!

    "But my point is the photon would always experience/take twice the time for twice the distance, no matter what valid reference frame you are using."--TruBeliever37 You shifted to what the photon experiences, not what the observers in those reference frames observe.
  14. Thermos aquaticus

    Seeing things in their past? You are full of beans!

    GPS satellites are real things, and they experience a difference in passage of time compared to time on the surface of the Earth that has real consequences for the accuracy of GPS measurements. There is even an Air Force squadron whose entire job is to update the time on GPS satellites so that...
  15. Thermos aquaticus

    What Causes or Motivates the Anti-scientists?

    I was taught simple Mendelian genetics in 6th grade, and the central dogma of genetics (DNA to RNA to protein) in 9th grade. I learned about gene promoters in 11th grade. Of course, this was more than 25 years ago, but I don't see why kids today are any less intelligent. You are aware that...
  16. Thermos aquaticus

    The Creationist's Argument and its Greatest Weakness

    Then you would have to show that the purpose of those writings was to accurately describe nature.
  17. Thermos aquaticus

    Seeing things in their past? You are full of beans!

    The observer does, yes.
  18. Thermos aquaticus

    Seeing things in their past? You are full of beans!

    We can use relativistic time to program the clocks on GPS satellites so that they run close to the appropriate speed. Even then, they have to be adjusted on a daily basis. This is because time runs at a different pace in orbit than it does on the surface of the Earth due to relativity, and it...
  19. Thermos aquaticus

    Seeing things in their past? You are full of beans!

    You are jumping between frames again. The photon does not exist in a valid reference frame. The observer does. What we are describing is what you would observe travelling at those speeds.
  20. Thermos aquaticus

    Seeing things in their past? You are full of beans!

    In all of those frames of reference we can describe what an observer will observe in those frames of reference. We are not describing what the photon experiences.
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