I've been somewhat amused by Genesis 1:16 after I actually started studying science.
"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."
Well yeah, and first, this is described as the 4th day.
So, 1) how are there days before the creation of the sun?
2) On the 3rd day, God supposedly created plants. Plants. Without stable gravity, (no sun, no moon, apparently no other planets) without sun.
And stars . . . there are other biblical references about the stars singing for joy, so they didn't know what stars were.
But my big number 1 amusement is that our solar system isn't very old. When our system and our sun formed, there were billions of galaxies already.
There were plenty of stars in the sky. And nope, some deity didn't gouge a hole in one of the Milky Way's arms so it could play at creating a planet,
then a Sun, and its moon, and hey! there are stars there . . . and then conveniently ignore the actual creation of life and around 175 million years of
dinosaur rule, then come back, create a garden, tweak some animals and screw up a couple of perfectly good apes . . .
"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."
Well yeah, and first, this is described as the 4th day.
So, 1) how are there days before the creation of the sun?
2) On the 3rd day, God supposedly created plants. Plants. Without stable gravity, (no sun, no moon, apparently no other planets) without sun.
And stars . . . there are other biblical references about the stars singing for joy, so they didn't know what stars were.
But my big number 1 amusement is that our solar system isn't very old. When our system and our sun formed, there were billions of galaxies already.
There were plenty of stars in the sky. And nope, some deity didn't gouge a hole in one of the Milky Way's arms so it could play at creating a planet,
then a Sun, and its moon, and hey! there are stars there . . . and then conveniently ignore the actual creation of life and around 175 million years of
dinosaur rule, then come back, create a garden, tweak some animals and screw up a couple of perfectly good apes . . .
"The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children."- Albert Einstein
