RE: Does science prove or disprove the bible
October 19, 2011 at 1:31 pm
(This post was last modified: October 19, 2011 at 1:33 pm by Simon Moon.)
(October 19, 2011 at 2:11 am)Justtristo Wrote:Quote:He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth,
and its people are like grasshoppers.
He stretches out the heavens like a canopy,
and spreads them out like a tent to live in.
Isaiah 40:22
The presenter used this verse and talked about how the ancient Hebrews hundreds years before Aristotle knew the Earth was a sphere. Then he went further to criticize scientists from being philosophers and theologians.
If those that want to claim that the Bible is proven by science, they can't just cherry pick from the Bible or science.
Here are the facts about that passage from Isaiah. The Hebrew word that is used to describe the earth in that passage is 'Chuwg'. 'Chuwg' does not mean sphere, it means circle. Circles are 2 dimensional objects. Isaiah 40:22 does not describe a spherical earth, but a flat one.
There was a Hebrew word for ball or sphere, that word was 'Duwr'. It is used elsewhere in the Bible for that purpose.
The Hebrew cosmology closely parallels the Sumero-Babylonian cosmology, with some Egyptian cosmology tossed in. A flat earth.
There are other passages in the Bible that describe the earth as being flat, that the sky is held up on pillars, that the earth is immovable, that when it rains 'God' is opening up windows in heaven, that there is a dome etc.
Funny thing is, if any of those are brought up, the Christian will say, "Oh, those are metaphors".
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
