(March 14, 2016 at 9:02 pm)AJW333 Wrote:(March 14, 2016 at 7:49 pm)Chas Wrote: Because it's not fucking talking about stars - it's about Greek myth.
The Pleiades were the seven daughters of the titan Atlas and the sea-nymph Pleione.
Orion the hunter chased them, but could not bind them.
How do you know that Job is borrowing his revelation from the Greeks? He says it was God who revealed it to him directly. Check the context of the passage. God is saying to Job how he created everything and holds itall together. It has nothing to do with Greek fables.
Those Constellations take their names from Greek myth. There was no Job, it is a story. The many authors of the OT took their tales from many cultures.
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
