Why Creationists don't realize the biblical Creation is just jewish mythology?

[Anomalocaris]

Now how is it that a man of that time could have written such a statement when there are only around 6000 stars visible to the naked eye in the darkest of night skies. Don't try and argue there are more visible stars than that, it is established fact and do not try and say that it's metaphorical because that is a literal statement from the scriptures, so tell me how the writer could have ever know that the stars are innumerable?

GC

Studies show untutored humans in Neolithic tribal societies tend to have instinctive facility to grasp number of things up to a couple of hundred, which also happen to be the maximum number of people a typical person instinctively place into immediate social circle.    When confronting any number more numerous than a couple of hundred the instinctive ability to envision the quantity fails and the quantity is vaguely said to be "innumerable".    The fact that we can conceive of quantity larger than that now is largely the results of the fact that we've intellectually created the concept of mathematical numbers that is multiples of fixed quantities we can grasp, such as 10.   Most Neolithic tribal societies seems not to have been equipped with that advantage.


So anything more than ~100-200, say 1000, 2000, 6000, or 6 million are all intuitively innumerable to them.



But, Had the ancient Hebrews literati in the bronze age been equipped with the intellectual advancement required to count up to 6000,  and the old farts who made up the story of what Yahweh said happen to have been one of the fortunate ones who had been educated in that skill, that still doesn't mean the number of starts in the sky is now countable.

You see, there is no definite cut off to how many stars are actually visible to the naked eye of any one individual.   6000 is a sort of figure determined in modern times by analyzing the brightness of stars with precision instruments, analyzing the visual acuity of large number of humans in precisely controlled conditions, and then deduced.     It says around 6000 stars exist in the sky that should be visually individually discernible to some humans of good but non-exceptional vision under very good seeing conditions.    It doesn't say Benny Ben Yahu can always see 6452 stars, no more, no less.     The reality is Benny will never be able see all 6452 stars that instruments say should fall within the extreme reaches of his visual acuity.   right off the bat, 50% of the sky would be invisible to him at any given time.  That 50% is always changing as earth rotates.   Unless he has developed a RELIABLE system to fix coordinates in the sky and exceptionally good cataloging skills, he could never be quite sure which of the fainter star is a new one to count, and which has already been counted.   If the Hebrews didn't put extraordinary attention to creating such a system of sky coordinates and catalogue, and we have no evidence they did, then counting accurately without massive confusion up to 6000 different stars would be a fool's errand.   They 6000 stars they can theoretically see, would remain too numerous to actually count.   So innumerable.

As if that would be the only thing making the stars Benny can sometimes see innumerable.    Most of the stars theoretically visible to the typical humans exist at the very edge of theoretical human visual acuity, and then only under very good seeing conditions.   Even an individual human's visual acuity varies day to day, hour to hour, even minute to minute.  The seeing conditions vary even more, and on just as fine a time scale.   So if Benny is so minded as to develop his coordinate system, find a means to keep the coordinates pinned to the rotating celestial sphere, and develop a catalogue to keep track of which stars he has counted and which is yet to count, he is till in trouble.   For those very faint stars, which is the majority of the 6000, he could never be absolutely sure if he is actually seeing it, or just seeing things, because variations in his visual acuity and the seeing condition means he think he barely discern a star there one moment, and the next moment it is gone.  

Again, innumerable.

As it turns out, the number 6000 you quoted is not entirely accurate.  It applied mainly to people with good but unexceptional visual acuity in good, but not truly exceptional seeing conditions.  On night with exceptionally dark, cool, still and clear skies, up to 4 times that many stars may be discerned by people with exceptional eye sight.    

So adam Ben sharp eye says there were 156 stars in that patch them there yesterday. You only see 12 today, and only ever thought you saw 40 on that really good night. Who is right?


So again, innumerable.


You really need to treat all evidence as being against your god then as being for your god, because your intellectual predilection is to see god in very shit stain on every piece of discarded toilet paper.   Therefore to be intellectually honest in pursuit of what is rather than what you want things to be, you must assume every piece of evidence is a piece of evidence against what you wish to see, so as to not let what you wish to see confuse you about what you are actually seeing.    You must explore every piece of evidence until there seem to be no conceivable way to explain it without invoking god, then your should explore the possibility that it in fact has other explanations some more.

Only after repeating that process several time, will you add this evidence to the leger for god.   Then remember all those other evidences you have not yet examined must be assumed to be against god, and you only have one for.

Only then can you honest say what you believe to be true is not merely an artifact of what you wish to be true.
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