(June 17, 2021 at 8:15 am)Brian37 Wrote:(June 16, 2021 at 5:50 pm)WinterHold Wrote: The light from a candle is light, the blinding rays of a supernova are called "light" too.
That's not anthropomorphism, that's "describing the phenomena with simple words so the reader understand".
Um no, you do what I've seen Christians and Jews do too with their holy writings. You are trying to retrofit modern science to old mythology. You are working backwards. NOBODY in the world back then had any modern scientific understanding like we do today. Nobody in the world back then knew what a photon was. Nobody back then knew what infrared light, or ultra violet light was. Nobody back then knew what radiation was. Nobody back then knew what "redshift" was. Nobody back then knew what the speed of light was. And nobody knew what a supernova was. Observing something doesn't mean you understand in any modern sense what you are observing. All anyone knew back then when they observed a super nova was that it just seemed to be a brighter star. They knew nothing about the makeup of what caused such events.
FYI, if you truly believe the ancients actually had any modern knowledge then you should believe in Chinese mythology, because according to wikipedia, Chinese Astronomers were the first to write down their observations in 185CE. And that was long before the invention of the religion of Islam or the first compiled Koran.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of...bservation
Very few humans back then knew that the sun was a star, and could tell the difference between a star and a planet. But even then, even those people were limited in their knowledge because they didn't have modern tools of observation.
That reply has fuck all to do with anthropomorphism.
Typical.
Boru
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