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RE: A Day in the Life of the Torah: How Can Time Prove the Authenticity of Genesis by Charlie Shrem

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There is a definite "now", but (strangely) it takes an unusually abstract line of thought to justify what we know intuitively. Just like we know that there's some point in a circle where the tangent line is flat...

This is what I have most trouble wrapping my head around. Can you explain the last part?

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Okay: the tangent line is a line whose slope is equal to the slope of a function at a certain point. Think of an eight foot long 2 X 4 placed on or under a specific part of a small Ferris wheel or huge Hula hoop. Something like this:

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AC would be the "2 x 4". It's the tangent.

Intuitively, we know that there are two places where the "2 x 4" would be horizontal: i.e., have a slope of zero. Flat. :)

But it is hard to justify because the circle has no edges.

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