<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><font size="4">Bible thumpers use Popper quotations in their legal briefs to try to get creationism taught in the classroom.<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4"><br></font></div></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> John K Clark</div><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">Would any of you consider any part of the Bible knowledge?</div></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">bill w</div></font></div><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></font></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 11:34 AM, John Clark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 7:48 PM, Rafal Smigrodzki <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rafal.smigrodzki@gmail.com" target="_blank">rafal.smigrodzki@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div><br></div><br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">If Popper is right then the scientific conclusion is that the Earth is at the center of the universe. At most only one place can be the center (infinite things have no center at all) but lots of places can be off center<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">,</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> thus</div> it would seem very unlikely <div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">that </div>I just happened to be at the center of spherical universe with a 13.8 billion light year radius. So I disagree with Popper and conclude there are parts of the universe I can never see even in theory. </span><br></font></div><div><p></p></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></blockquote></span><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>### Observers on the surface of a sphere see themselves in the middle of a plane, surrounded by a circle horizon. Observers on the surface of a hypersphere see themselves in the middle of space, surrounded by a spherical horizon.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">if Popper knew what a 4D </font>hypersphere was (and he almost certainly didn't) he would say the existence of such a thing was a untestable hypothesis and the simplest explanation that fit the observable facts is the Earth is at the center of a regular old 3D sphere with a 13.8 billion light year radius and no fancy stuff is required. I would disagree.</font></div></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4"> John K Clark</font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>
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