(May 4, 2015 at 8:12 pm)snowtracks Wrote: CosmosThat's an infinitesimally small gap into which to try to fit electromagnetism. As in, it doesn't describe it at all.
Creation of the cosmos was completed in Genesis 1:1 which includes electro-magnetism. (“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth”). Any references to light after this verse is in the context of the earth’s frame of reference.
Second, why would the rest of it be in the context of "earth's frame of reference"? According to the story, no one was on earth to witness any of it.
So as I said, in order to salvage the story, your interpretation has to assume enormous amounts of information that is not in the story. But it's interesting how neatly the story fits into the levels of knowledge and understanding that would have been common for the time it was written, if we don't try to add anything to it. Then it makes sense that the writers of Genesis did not bother to mention the electromagnetic spectrum or the structure of the galaxy or the way the light of the sun reflects off of the moon, and so on.
"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
