RE: What Constantine likely saw.
January 2, 2018 at 7:06 pm
(This post was last modified: January 2, 2018 at 7:21 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(January 2, 2018 at 6:57 pm)Godscreated Wrote:(January 2, 2018 at 4:51 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: Yeah? Because if they were the ignorant yokels like they really were, then the prostrating faith you have in the story of your god boy would make you look even more stupid than they?
I'll bet they could tell you more about the night sky than you know from observing it with just your eyes like they had to. I know why also.
GC
And? Because they lacked telescopes, knew nothing of the nature of atmospheric phenomenon, chemistry, optics, real astronomy so I should ditch all the knowledge gained by telescopes, by modern atmospheric science, chemistry, optics and astronomy and buy the tall tales they tell to disguise their own blindness and total ignorance to all that is beyond their naked eye and miniscule experience?
I have 20 centuries of accumulated and systematized knowledge behind me. I know infinitely more about visual phenomenons and their causes than they can even imagine. I know what mode of explanation has proven track record of ironclad verification and disputable predictive power over centuries of intellectually rigorous exercise, and what mode of explanation is as vapid and unpredictive then as now and can appeal only to the wishthinking.
Your God boy mode of explanation is as vapid and unpredictive now as back then.
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Back then yokels are easily overawed by overreaching yet vapid tales without any predictive power. Now only the dumb and dumber still are.
