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To: ctdonath2
QUOTE: "It explained, in a couple pages, creation as best it could be understood by a goat-herder"

So, you are asserting that your knowledge and understanding far exceeds that of Moses? You may be confusing your access to Wikipedia and Astronomy magazine as knowledge, understanding and wisdom. It is a common myth of today that we confuse access to information with intelligence.

52 posted on 08/24/2015 10:43:44 AM PDT by jimmyray
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To: jimmyray

Yes, I assert a common schoolchild may know more about astronomy than Moses. He knew nothing of planets, stars, orbital mechanics, spectrum analysis, relativity (heck, I was rattling off “E=mc^2” in 3rd grade), redshift, etc. For the vast number of specks of light he did see, there were orders of magnitude of orders of magnitude more that he didn’t. For the movement of the night lights he saw, he didn’t know how to predict their movement accurate to millimeters & millennia.

What he DID understand is that God’s creation is far beyond his comprehension, and that a couple pages of goatherder-understandable text plus a genealogy does not prove the age of the Universe, and that said imputed age does not negate the reality of all we see and rationally interpret.


57 posted on 08/24/2015 11:09:50 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (The world map will be quite different come 20 January 2017.)
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