I think you guys are missing the point. Light is invisible, yet we can see it. That's a miracle from God!
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and hammers are too heavy to lift, but we can lift them and books are unreadable but we can read them, and pain can't be felt but we feel it! All miracles from God!
Anything is a miracle if you start with a false statement.
Seriously, I don't think I can take any more of this Ray Comfort bullshit.
Something is bad wrong, or it's all a joke.
Eyes are the sense organs for light.
You would be correct if you said, light is inaudible. If light were invisible, it wouldn't be light.
Or is Justin simply poe-trolling RayBoy?
Justin, perhaps you should go stare at the sun for about six hours to test out this "light is invisible" theory of yours. I'm sure the millions of photo-sensitive cells in your eyes are eager to know whether or not they serve any function.
While you're at it, could you test out my "Bullets are intangible" theory by firing a loaded revolver into your skull?
Thanks in advance.
Oh, good grief! Light isn't invisible, you great twit. Light technically is the ONLY thing that IS visible!
The last time I read something comparable to this, it was the notion held during Aristotle's time that vision was the result of the eye sending out light that bounced off an object and returned to the eye with the image of that object -- which, while it is half right, is still pretty stupid even for the ancients, since just walking into a dark room shows it to be nonsense. Yet this modern atavism of the ancients gets the facts even more stupefyingly wrong by saying that light itself is invisible! What! A! Moron!
so if I look up at the sun, nothing should happen, since I can not see it.
{later}
You are right! I can't see light! To prove it even further, God burned my eyes for trying to see light. Oh the glory of god. I am able to type because I can feel the key board. Another gift from god.
{sarcasm}
"I think you guys are missing the point. Light is invisible, yet we can see it. That's a miracle from God!"
If it were invisible you couldn't see it you halfwit.
Now, even speaking as someone who majored in the liberal arts, that statement didn't seem quite right to me, from what I can remember of my high school science.
The closest I can find to what he is talking about it this, in a quote from Wikipedia :
"Light, or visible light, is electromagnetic radiation of a wavelength that is visible to the human eye (about 400700 nm). In a scientific context, the word light is sometimes used to refer to the entire electromagnetic spectrum. Moreover, in optics, the term "visible light" refers to electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths of ~300 nm (near UV) through ~1400 nm (near infrared). [1] Light is composed of elementary particles called photons....
In other words, I think he's confusing the two different kinds of light.
And he's a religious fundamentalist, which generally never helps an understanding of science.
Someone's tried to make some sense of this :
Much as it pains me to agree with Ray Comfort, he is right when he claims light is invisible.
An object is visible to us when it reflects photons of light from the visible spectrum that enter our eyes and are absorbed by chemicals in the retinal cells. Those impacts stimulate nerve impulses which our visual system uses to construct an image of the object reflecting the light.
We see by light but we don't see the light itself. If you doubt it, shine a flashlight on a really clear night or - if you are lucky enough - in the vacuum of space. You will see objects illuminated by the light but you will not see the beam of light itself.
Of course, it still, to me, contradicts the fact that they say that light is invisible, "yet we can see it". This guy just said that in space, we can't see the light beam itself.
@the_ignored
I agree with JohnnyBGod, the flashlight explanation is incorrect. It is like saying a tree falling in a forest where no-one is around makes no sound.
If you define sound/visibility as an intrinsic property of the wave, this is wrong. Only if you define them by the act of perception is this view justifiable.
Either way, it is not a "miracle from God" that you can't see light that is moving away from you, it is a physical consequence of it moving away from you. As someone else pointed out, by that criteria bullets would be intangible.
JohnnyBGod: I just said that someone tried to make sense of it; I didn't say that they succeeded. Mind you, on the original site I posted that what he said made sense, but that I had been awake for over 30 hours straight.
At least I have an excuse. Some good news, some other guys on that site have set things straight.
....These three, tiny little sentences, made of innocent words that couldn't possibly know the harm they do when grouped like that, have just made me officially retarded. I've just pooped my pants, now I just need a helmet, and maybe I'll knit something that's not really there. For Jesus. Thanks a fucking lot, Justin, now I cant do math! And I really wanted to finish college!
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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