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Transparent metal proved God of Bible

exchemist

Veteran Member
"and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass." Revelation 21:21

And Physics says:


What a stupid video. He wastes several minutes of your time before revealing, TA-DAH!, that the transparent droplet at the end of the reaction is NOT sodium at all, but NaOH - which we all know is transparent anyway.

Metals are not transparent to visible light, except in very, very thin films in which the thickness is less than the "skin depth", the distance over which the electric vector of the radiation is largely damped out by oscillation of the conduction band electrons of the metal.
 

questfortruth

Well-Known Member
What a stupid video. He wastes several minutes of your time before revealing, TA-DAH!, that the transparent droplet at the end of the reaction is NOT sodium at all, but NaOH - which we all know is transparent anyway.

Metals are not transparent to visible light, except in very, very thin films in which the thickness is less than the "skin depth", the distance over which the electric vector of the radiation is largely damped out by oscillation of the conduction band electrons of the metal.
I have not watched the video, I am sorry. Like always, I look at titles.
 

Dan From Smithville

What's up Doc?
Staff member
Premium Member
I'm curious though. How would the discovery or the engineering of a new property of a solid be evidence for God? The last 2000 years have been an increasingly fruitful series of discoveries. If your video example had been factual, how would it differ from those actual discoveries? How would finding out something you didn't know about some type of matter tell you more than something about that matter?

Wouldn't a claim of God in something previously unknown be a form of an argument from ignorance?
 
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Subduction Zone

Veteran Member
What a stupid video. He wastes several minutes of your time before revealing, TA-DAH!, that the transparent droplet at the end of the reaction is NOT sodium at all, but NaOH - which we all know is transparent anyway.

Metals are not transparent to visible light, except in very, very thin films in which the thickness is less than the "skin depth", the distance over which the electric vector of the radiation is largely damped out by oscillation of the conduction band electrons of the metal.
Thanks for saving me my time. I likewise thought of a clear oxide of a metal. And it was really a gem. Any clue as to the answer of my dad joke?

At any rate metal oxides were known even back in the time of the writing of the Bible. They just did not know that they were metal oxides at that time.
 

exchemist

Veteran Member
Thanks for saving me my time. I likewise thought of a clear oxide of a metal. And it was really a gem. Any clue as to the answer of my dad joke?

At any rate metal oxides were known even back in the time of the writing of the Bible. They just did not know that they were metal oxides at that time.
Yes, but nothing of this has anything to do with the bible passage in question. It's from Revelation, which is basically dreamlike - an old man's acid trip. That bible passage speaks of gold but describes it using a Greek word meaning transparent or translucent, so we've no way of knowing what he thought he was describing. Lucy in the sky with diamonds.;)
 
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