RE: Flat Earth and Geocentrism
February 19, 2014 at 9:29 am
(This post was last modified: February 19, 2014 at 9:33 am by Tonus.)
(February 19, 2014 at 12:49 am)Drich Wrote:We have trouble with it because it's so poorly written, particularly in the way it allows for so many different interpretations. At the very least I would expect it to be clear enough for anyone to understand regardless of language or intellect. We're talking about a creature of such advanced knowledge and intelligence that we can't even fathom how smart he is, yet he allowed his guidebook --the most important document humanity could possibly be given-- to be a horribly sloppy mess.(February 17, 2014 at 9:56 am)Tonus Wrote: Do you think that the Bible is the best work he could come up with?If it were who would it speak to?
The bible is the remedial course in God/salvation 101
And still we have trouble with it.
The Bible isn't remedial god/salvation 101. It's barely even remedial reading/writing.
(February 19, 2014 at 9:25 am)Sword of Christ Wrote: It's also worth bearing in mind that Galileo was a devout Catholic when he demonstrated the heliocentric solar system through his telescopic investigation. So this isn't a "science vs religion" kind of thing where science won. That's the way atheists like to portray it but it isn't how it happened at all. Religion did not hold science back.Errr... what????
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
