(June 26, 2014 at 12:29 am)snowtracks Wrote: here's are some thoughts: 1) the biblical Hebrew vocabulary has only about 3,000 words. consequently, the interpretation dependents on grammar, sentence structure, and context since there are multiple literal definitions of common usages. the frame of reference of ancient people is how words and phases such as 'the entire heavens', 'face of the earth' are correctly interpreted. using our modern day global perspective wouldn't give the correct meaning.You'd think that god could either come up with a language that was simple enough to interpret clearly, or make sure they wrote in a manner that could be interpreted clearly, or not create new languages when men were constructing the tower of Babel. His direct message to humankind, the conduit by which he delivers wisdom and offers salvation, and he can't even manage a way to make it consistent or coherent enough. Can't god do anything right?
"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