RE: God created the world in 7 days. Define "Day"
September 18, 2010 at 5:55 pm
(This post was last modified: September 18, 2010 at 5:56 pm by TheDarkestOfAngels.)
(September 18, 2010 at 2:33 pm)superstarr Wrote: It still is odd to me that God took longer to create the Earth than the Universe according to the Bible.....
Well, it makes perfect sense if you honestly believe that the stars are simply white dots that are attached to a great dome that sits atop the earth as opposed to the modern view of things. You know, once we discovered that the earth was spherical, the sky isn't a giant dome over the land containing the heavens, and the earth orbits the sun and the motion of the stars and planets is due to their own movements and not a great dome over the earth that is moving.
The bible espouses a great number of crazy things in it.
I should also note that back then, a 24 hour day was the only day that was defined. It was well before we figured out that a day only happened because of our planet's rotation on its axis like similar rotations of other celestial bodies.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
