(July 6, 2021 at 11:23 am)Mercyvessel Wrote:(July 5, 2021 at 11:53 am)polymath257 Wrote: Job was written much later than that. It was written sometime between the 7th and 4th centuries BCE with the most likely time in the 6th.
By that time, the understanding that the Earth is spherical was well distributed and the idea that it 'hung' on nothing was discussed.
But, of course, the Earth does NOT 'hang' at all. It moves.
Also, the idea that the sky was a dome, sphere, or tend spread out around the sperical Earth was the standard at the time. of course, that is also wrong.
Your timeline is incorrect, but putting that aside, tell me this... is it more probable or likely that the Earth "moves" (as you state) in the precise manner in which it has and does (like other planets in our galaxy) - particularly around the Sun - as a result of (1). some chance, or rather (2). some design and purpose?
It's not chance, it's simply the best orbital path given that there is one massive body in the centre (roughly) with a large number of smaller (with some still quite massive) bodies also orbiting around it also. It's simply bodies of matter adhering the the laws of nature.
Oh and it's definitely not design either, if it were there'd be a lot more inhabitable places in the solar system.
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