"My wife has been a NASA contractor most of her career so I’ve seen that before but it’s still amazing. Thanks - TK" ~~~~~~~~
I have tried to imagine the reaction of the human who recorded Genesis to that movie - and my imagination totally fails.
- Even the opening scene -- with HST in orbit above the round earth -- would have been totally incomprehensible to him.
- From his location in the Middle East, he could have seen no more than two galaxies (M31 and our own Milky Way, "from the insde out") with his unaided eyes
- His world-view and language simply had no concept of (or word[s] for), "galaxy"...
Yet, fundamentalists still insist that
Genesis provides a description of Creation (when timelined by Bishop Ussher) that is totally adequate for interpreting the universe and timescales we now are able to see and measure...
I am a scientist -- and a Christian, and a believer in the truth of Genesis. But I do not see any merit or piety in insisting that Genesis be considered a science textbook.