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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Robert Bevens writes:
> On Fri, 30 Mar 2001 13:31:10 GMT, Frank Filz <ffilz@mindspring.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Ryan Farrington wrote:
> > > First of all, I don't know if I am supposed to take this discussion only to
> > > off-topic.debate or also have it cross-posted to general. If someone knows
> > > better, let me know.
> > >
> > > God existed first, before anything else. He created all things, including
> > > man, whom He created in His own image. Man, being sinful, created gods in
> > > his own image. (see http://home.ifriendly.com/~fourfarrs/truth.htm and
> > > http://home.ifriendly.com/~fourfarrs/truthfaq.htm) So God did not steal the
> > > term.
> >
> > And the world turns round again...
>
> Not to get off topic...oh wait we already are, never mind. Does the
> world actually turn around in a straight circle? I mean I know it
> sorta wobbles and what not and that's how we get the seasons, but is
> it how the earth is rotating that is changing, or is it just the axis
> which has changed? Or would that be the same thing...hmmm...ponder
> that for a bit.
I'd much rather ponder what a "straight circle" is. A gyroscope undergoes
precession, in that its axis of rotation "wobbles," but the rotation itself,
relative to that axis, is pretty fixed, I think.
Dave!
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