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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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To: ctdonath2
Then you are certainly smarter than Paul, as you understood relativity at 8 years old! However, I would point you to Paul's writings (he was a tent-maker, not a goat herder, not sure where you would rank that in intelligence):

1 Timothy 6:20 O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called: 21 Which some professing have erred concerning the faith.

Romans 1:18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness,
19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.
20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.
22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools.

63 posted on 08/24/2015 11:52:45 AM PDT by jimmyray
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