RE: One question for Christians
July 11, 2013 at 9:20 pm
(This post was last modified: July 11, 2013 at 9:25 pm by Bad Writer.)
(July 11, 2013 at 6:41 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote: If we use the definition of light then the Moon is just as much of a light as the Sun because they both illuminate. There is no qualifier in the definition stating that something that is reflecting waves of light cannot be called a light. I bet you’re a lot of fun to be around…
“Hey, nice red shirt!”
“My shirt is not red! It’s reflecting the red wavelength of light and absorbing the others so it appears red to you! But it’s not you fool!”
You totally missed the point of my question, which is why you started talking about modern-day findings about lightwaves and reflection (because we know they totally talked about that kind of stuff back when they were writing the books of Moses), so I'll rephrase it for you.
Can you prove that the author of Genesis didn't mean to convey that the moon was a source of light?
(July 11, 2013 at 6:41 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote:Quote: The thing many people forget is that, when you break it down, moonlight is still the sun's light. Are we really going to argue about that?
Are you saying that AGU, NASA, and Nature all forgot that? I think it’s more likely they realize that simply because a source (like the Bible) uses descriptive language (such as moonlight) it does not mean that source is scientifically ignorant. I do not accuse NASA of being geo-centrists simply because they use the terms “sunrise” and “sunset”….do you?
I don't, and I hope you wouldn't either. For the record, I never accused them of "being geo-centrists", so don't twist this in any such way to make it seem like I did. Please take my words at face value, and I'll do the same for you, SW.
Now, again, I ask you: are we going to argue that the moon isn't the sun's light?