brucep said:
Wow, how observant you are. I'm still laughing. You sound like my dad with the 'knucklhead' one of my favs of all time. Write that book that I was talking about. I'll definitely read it. Dr. Toad read Farsights book. I'm still laughing. "knucklehead theme park". LOL.
I still can't get over it. I remember the first time I saw those robotic dinosaurs at Disneyworld. Evidently Ken Ham contracted the same or similar designers (imagine being in the position to do it one way and then the other) to go down in history as the singular numbskull who would erect a shrine to pseudoscience. Just think how people in the future will marvel that we didn't just put these people under civil commitment (which is a state of arrest and confinement, usu. to a mental hospital, for being a threat to society or themselves.) I believe he has Fred Flintstone somewhere in between all the begattin' between Adam and Jonah. If they have accepted even one snippet of history, they will note that the library at Ninevah was full of writings, so probably they put the Flinstones just a little before that era. With dinosaurs, of course. I suppose they were wiped out in the flood, since we all know dinosaurs can't swim. Oh, except crocs and alligators and of course turtles which at least go back to the Cretaceous.
What Ken Ham really needs, and what Farsight should contract to build for him, is a museum that glorifies the ignorance of claiming that c is not constant in all frames, culminating in a laser-tag game that simulates the errors that can occur in radiometric dating. You aim at your buddy and pull the trigger, and it randomly measures him at the wrong distance as he stands in a given zone of the geologic eons, and a paint ball lands harmlessly on the ground, far short of the date tagged as a distance by the laser. A big scorecard all lit up in LEDs and laser strobes would show that the exponential function for decay is never realized, but rather it's a straight line with time axis that spans 6000 years. And with every discovery that it fell short, Lucifer would light up in a dark corner, groaning like the little girl in
The Exorcist as Holy Water lashes at her skin like acid. Right at the end, when Young Earth is proven, there would be a thunderous roar of Handel's "Hallelujah Chorus" while a 30 foot hologram of a Charles Manson looking character rises out of the grave all robed in white and ascending into Heaven. A lot of CO[sub]2[/sub] would be released from the fog machines, but after that big gusher of a climax, and much speaking in tongues and rending of garments, the throng would be herded to the Climategate Museum, so the massive jets of CO[sub]2[/sub] would actually serve as a kind of segway. This is our playground, we can tear it up if we want to.
I suspect this is Farsight's end game. I can think of no other rationale that serves as much vanity as all that.
It makes one wonder, what drives these people to push such weird concepts?.
Is it simply what I have been shouting from the roof tops of late, with regards to delusions of grandeur and tall poppy syndrome?
It appears that way. It's also obviously such a waste of energy and bandwidth by these people!
I mean, really, what do they hope to achieve by pushing such crap?
In summing, the "coordinate speed of light" like you said, is neither here nor there. The local proper speed of light is always consistently "c", in any FoR, anywhere in the Universe.
I have always thought this was just an outgrowth of the War on Science launched by the Bushies (if you followed that saga from the Tropic of Capricorn). It was bizarre, almost an inquisition. And of course it took on a new life when they figured out how to manufacture "climate-gate". But it never occurred to me, until I came across this while recently reading a book about the War on Evolution, that the attempts to drive a wedge into their congregations insofar as the constancy of c is concerned, is strategically targeting an utterly bogus rationale for discrediting radiometric dating. They will want to show that the half-life law of nuclear decay is predicated on the constancy of c, but once they've discredited it among their sheeple, then now they have a new piece of pseudoscience to lay the groundwork for the Young Earth nonsense which seems to be growing in popularity . . .despite the fact that even hillbillies can now Google and run a few fact-checks of their own. But being hillbillies, they wouldn't want to do that. I suppose it opens the gates to Hell. I mean just look how many demons are already here are attacking poor Farsight. (The Martyr.)
It's not that it comes up too often in a sermon, but all the high school books now give a little mention of radiometric dating and the exponential law for decay. So it is a pesky little problem that needs more champions like Farsight. Once he shows that the exponential is an artifact of "wrong assumptions about the constancy of c" he'll be on the verge of a best-seller. I mean: why else would anyone go to so much trouble to deny something as basic as the mountains of evidence attesting to the constancy of c?
Of course, the Devil is in the details. :mufc: So let's not actually bother to talk about empirical evidence.
