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Alexande1304

(19 posts)
Wed Feb 22, 2012, 12:31 PM Feb 2012

Did anybody hear/read about Dr. Stephen M.Phillips?

Hello all,
Dr.Phillis is specialist in what is called "Sacred Geometries".He is physicist (Ph.D) and seems to devote whole his life to demonstrate connection between "sacred geometries" of various traditions and modern science,especially superstring theories of physics.His latest book is titled "Mathematical coonection between religion and science".


Here is his website:
http://www.smphillips.8m.com/

From this article in his website (http://www.smphillips.8m.com/article-2.html)
it also follows that he is literal believer in Theosophy.
What do you guys think?
My point is: if he is right then,well...he should be considered one the most brilliant minids,and moreover,all our science,especially physics should be reconsidered,and be viewed from the point of "sacred geometries".Or,may be he is totally wrong.Who knows?....
What do you think?...

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Did anybody hear/read about Dr. Stephen M.Phillips? (Original Post) Alexande1304 Feb 2012 OP
Smells like teen spirit to me. MineralMan Feb 2012 #1
It's pretty apparent that he's full of shit. laconicsax Feb 2012 #2
Thanks for the responses Alexande1304 Feb 2012 #3

MineralMan

(147,573 posts)
1. Smells like teen spirit to me.
Wed Feb 22, 2012, 04:35 PM
Feb 2012

When you make the jump from physics to theosophy and Madame Blavatsky, you leap off of a very high building, indeed, and the odds of surviving the plunge are not good at all.

Combining the word Sacred with Geometry is another sort of leap, one that is across a gaping chasm as deep as the Grand Canyon. Once again, gravity will out, and the landing will be spectacularly gory. Worst of all, the angle will still not be trisected.

If you write a book about the "Mathematical connection between religion and science," the woo becomes enormous, and is not unlike jumping off an aircraft carrier in the middle of the Atlantic in the middle of the night while it's at flank speed. Despite all the thrashing around you'll do if you survive the fall in the first place, you will surely drown in a sea of woo.

That's what I think.

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