Synonymy has primary and secondary roles. The primary is to make it seem as if the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy is impossible. In which case, if the Bible is the inerrant word of an omnipotent God, it's a fraud.
The Role of Synonymy
October 12th
The fact that Earth is at the center of the observable universe is empirical. The problem is, does anyone know what empirical means? Here are some definitions.
September 9th
The popular science "liquid outer core" is speculative at best, and there is no reason why it can't be open space. The P-wave Shadow Zone is the great gulf of which Jesus spoke in Luke 16:26.
July 28th
If it's good enough for Star Trek, it's good enough for popular science (SciPop). Besides, if you've seen it in a Star Trek episode you already believe it. Slam dunk.
The Sides of the Pit
We (that's me and the Holy spirit) have been working towards the construction of a model of the interior of the Earth which fully integrates every possible way that hell or the afterlife is referred to in the Bible.
July 21st
If you could get everyone, the whole world, to believe something which isn't true would that be success or failure? It depends on your intent. If your goal is to delude everyone then it's success.
April 20th
Does Einstein's relativity disprove that the universe has an absolute frame of reference? No. It's an inductive rationalization of the premise that there isn't one.
April 9th
The Geocentrospheric cosmological model in Matty's Paradigm is a) empirical (directly observable) and b) meets the requirements of Kepler's laws. The heliocentric theory is neither a) nor b).
April 3rd
Copernicus taught us how to imagine an alternative reality. He wrote the first episode of Star Trek. Galileo, Kepler, Newton and others convinced the modern mind that their imaginary alternative is reality.
February 26th
Faith is believing in something that you can't see. Math requires believing in concepts that you can't see, and relating them to each other in ways that can't be seen. Math is inductive, reductive, circular faith.