(October 12, 2017 at 11:36 pm)speedyj1992 Wrote: 1963/1964 you say - how old are you, if I may ask? And how old were you when you read the Bible?
I just turned 60. I learned to read at 2½, read the Bible when I was about 6 or 7, and occasionally re-read bits of it.
Quote:Also, the water cycle wasn't discovered until the 1800s, and while it was theorized a couple hundred years before that by the Chinese, those particular scriptures are fairly specific.
I still think that believers are reinterpreting scripture specifically for the purpose of being able to point and say "Look! This is about the water cycle!" There's rather a lot that the Bible got wrong, such as the number of legs on an insect and the value of pi (being out by nearly 5%, when neighbouring lands had a much closer approximation, doesn't suggest a god with scientific knowledge.)