>It's just strange to me that with all the common sense philosophers here, and great intellects, the one text they will not investigate is the one that huge numbers of people have taken time to show exactly how it proves that we are in fact created beings with all of the rights to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness that the Constitution says we are entitled to.
while i do not want to piss on anyone's parade i think that there needs to be some further explanation given before this anon spends time going through all of this.
first, having repeatedly made the point throughout this whole exercise that the bible contains a whole raft of shit that we hardly understand and that it displays properties that are magical (especially when dealing directly with the original texts). just for clarity, my view would be that science also diplays magical properties. i have not found anons here to be generally dismissive of this.
however, missler isnt the first to approach the text like this. also not the first to construct arguments from various ancient texts to the conclusion that there is a great(est) intellect.
what would pull me over the line and convince me to take a closer look would be some small piece of analysis around what irrational numbers are from this perspective…..i mean somehow this story must include an analysis as to why (or how) certain irrational numbers are so important…..and maybe some indications around what the perceptible result would be if those irrational values were to shift a bit….like say gamma was just a little bit larger or smaller than it in fact is. a further approach that might peak the interest of a few anons would be to connect missler's work to a western cosmological tradition…..if it could be connected with the timmeaus or with the cosmology underlying whitehead's process and reality.
not mocking, but am sceptical as to the potential worth of the work in the end. seems to be conclusions that many or most here would support - or at least be neutral toward and ignore.