(June 8, 2013 at 5:23 pm)Walking Void Wrote: If scientists wrote the bible I may actually reference it more often.

Then you're only interested in current science?

Science constantly moves. I'm not saying that I think that the bible is concerned with science, but it does record what people in history held to be their best understanding of the material universe.

What's more worrying is that you think it is a science book.

Remember that time We were stranded in the desert?

We would have died if I did not recite the power of the bible and multiplied our last fish into 100 fish. Fish. Fish. Whoops wrong reference.

(June 8, 2013 at 5:23 pm)NoraBrimstone Wrote: Back towards the topic, I have a question about the flood. If the Biblical Flood really happened, wouldn't the world be overrun with ducks?

Good question. The ducks (along with the swans and bigger fish) probably did crowd the earth for a few decades after the flood, but it seems likely they were common prey to humans afterwards, seeing that there was little else to eat, and were consequentially decimated to today's levels.

Now sh'cript'shr does say The Ducks shall return just before the Second Coming. So watch that pond!

Why does the Bible make no mention of this horrific duck massacre after the flood?

(June 8, 2013 at 6:15 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: it does record what people in history held to be their best understanding of the material universe.

If the writers were divinely inspired by God, the science should have been accurate.

(June 8, 2013 at 6:15 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: What's more worrying is that you think it is a science book.

No, it is creationists that think it is a science book.

We know it is myth.

(June 9, 2013 at 6:42 am)NoraBrimstone Wrote: Why does the Bible make no mention of this horrific duck massacre after the flood?

They're DUCKS, who cares about them? Minor detail, just like the entire earth being spherical and such, it's all just details, the Lord sayeth: Thou shalt focus on the big picture! Don't fret the details, leave that to Him.

(June 9, 2013 at 6:42 am)NoraBrimstone Wrote: Why does the Bible make no mention of this horrific duck massacre after the flood?

Details like that are usually left to the fan fiction writers.

First sentence: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." No, earth came about 5 Billion years ago, that's 9 Billion years after the Big Bang.

Next: "3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.

No, photons existed at the Big Bang, not after the earth was created, so light was created 14 billions years ago, not when earth was created. Day and night only make sense in terms of the sun-earth system, but I doubt the writers of the bible ever understood that concept.

Next: "6 And God said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.” 7 So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the vault “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day."

So the sky was created after the earth was created according to the bible, after the day-night combo was created, which we know to be totally false. The earth came about 5 billions years, and before that the universe had already been in existence for over 9 billion years, during which the galaxies had to form first before star-planets were formed. The "sky" existed way before the earth. The whole notion of a vault might be creative for the authors, if you consider they were writing fiction, but definitely show their poor understanding of the universe.

(June 9, 2013 at 12:08 pm)little_monkey Wrote: Day and night only make sense in terms of the sun-earth system, but I doubt the writers of the bible ever understood that concept.

This.

The sun doesn't simply "rule the day" ...

Quote:Gen 1:16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

...in reality, it defines the whole concept.