(October 25, 2018 at 4:57 am)Grandizer Wrote: Oh well, at least you're being honest here, and not pretending that scientists could learn a scientific lesson or two from this passage.
You got me thinking. Assuming that God transmitted the knowledge of Genesis 1 to whomever composed it (according to the text, there were no eye witnesses,), he could have dropped a little science, right? Something to the effect of:
"And God placed the sun 314,700,000,000 cubits from the Earth. He made the sun from many little mottes of dust. Each mote of dust was a pebble, circled by a tiny piece of lightening. And, in the suns depths, the sun combined two of these motes of dust to make another kind of mote made of two pebbles with two pieces of lightening encircling them. And thus was the sun's light shone upon the Earth."
Might not have made sense to the guy writing it, but it would help us in modern times to validate the Bible. I mean some Christians think the Bible contains prophecies of ICBMs. If this is true, then certainly the "inspired" fellow who wrote those prophecies down wouldn't have had any idea what the prophecies were about. So (if that's true) why couldn't God have given us some accurate scientific information like in the example I fashioned above?
